Blood Diamonds

Commander / EDH* Casual Demons Devotion Flying Goodstuff Midrange Mono-Black Ramp Reanimator

Optimator

Creature (21)

• 1x Chainer, Dementia Master
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Enduring Tenacity
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Indulgent Tormentor
• 1x K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
• 1x Ophiomancer
• 1x Pontiff of Blight
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Skirge Familiar
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Sower of Discord
• 1x Tymaret, Chosen from Death
• 1x Vampire Nighthawk

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Cunning Rhetoric
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Greed
• 1x Liliana's Contract
• 1x Oubliette
• 1x Phyrexian Arena

Artifact (17)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Decanter of Endless Water
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Ivory Tower
• 1x Lashwrithe
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Manascape Refractor
• 1x Mirror Shield
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spellbook
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Venser's Journal

Land (35)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 26x Swamp

Commander (1)

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Ambition's Cost
• 1x Ancient Craving
• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Damnable Pact
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Deadly Tempest
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Necromantic Selection
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Instant (5)

• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Defile
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Hagra Mauling  ^Flip
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip

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Creature (62)

• 1x Abhorrent Overlord SL
• 2x Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal SL  ^Flip
• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Archfiend of Despair
• 1x Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1x Blood Celebrant
• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 2x Bloodthirsty Conqueror
• 1x Burning-Rune Demon SL
• 1x Burnished Hart SL
• 1x Creeping Bloodsucker SL
• 1x Deepwood Ghoul
• 1x Defiler of Flesh
• 1x Demon of Dark Schemes
• 2x Doom Whisperer
• 2x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Garza's Assassin
• 1x Gifted Aetherborn
• 1x Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
• 1x Indulgent Tormentor
• 2x Infernal Sovereign SL
• 1x Kagemaro, First to Suffer
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Leaden Myr SL
• 1x Lorcan, Warlock Collector
• 1x Lord of the Void
• 1x Magus of the Mirror SL
• 1x Meteor Golem SL
• 1x Mischievous Poltergeist
• 1x Mortarion, Daemon Primarch
• 1x Nettling Imp SL
• 1x Nezumi Graverobber  ^Flip
• 1x Nightmare Shepherd
• 1x Nightshade Harvester SL
• 1x Nirkana Revenant
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk
• 1x Overseer of the Damned SL
• 1x Pestilence Demon SL
• 1x Phyrexian Delver SL
• 1x Royal Assassin SL
• 2x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 2x Sheoldred  ^Flip
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 3x Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 1x Tavern Swindler
• 2x Twilight Prophet
• 1x Valgavoth, Terror Eater
• 1x Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire SL
• 1x Visara the Dreadful SL
• 1x Wall of Blood
• 1x Wall of Shadows SL
• 1x Witch of the Moors SL

Land (12)

• 2x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Cabal Pit SL
• 1x Glacial Chasm SL
• 1x Ifnir Deadlands
• 1x Memorial to Folly SL
• 1x Spire of Industry SL
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 2x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x War Room SL

Artifact (39)

• 2x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Basilisk Collar
• 2x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Bontu's Monument SL
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Coldsteel Heart SL
• 1x Crawlspace SL
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Elixir of Immortality SL
• 1x Empowered Autogenerator SL
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Hedron Archive SL
• 2x Jet Medallion
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer SL
• 1x Mask of Griselbrand
• 1x Mimic Vat SL
• 1x Mind Stone SL
• 1x Netherborn Altar SL
• 1x Nightmare Lash
• 2x Nyx Lotus
• 1x Prismatic Lens SL
• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Skyclave Relic
• 2x Stonespeaker Crystal
• 1x Sword of War and Peace
• 1x Throne of Eldraine
• 1x Unstable Obelisk
• 2x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Whip of Erebos SL
• 1x Wishclaw Talisman SL

Instant (25)

• 1x Curtains' Call
• 1x Dark Bargain
• 1x Dark Ritual SL
• 1x Dash Hopes SL
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Hostile Negotiations SL
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Infernal Grasp SL
• 1x Moonlight Bargain
• 1x Necrologia SL
• 1x Plunge into Darkness
• 1x Reckless Spite SL
• 1x Skeletal Scrying SL
• 1x Slaughter
• 1x Snuff Out
• 2x Stinging Study
• 1x Succumb to Temptation SL
• 1x Supernatural Stamina SL
• 1x Tragic Slip SL
• 1x Undying Evil SL
• 1x Vraska's Contempt
• 1x Withering Boon
• 2x Withering Torment

Sorcery (34)

• 1x Bond of Revival
• 1x Breach the Multiverse SL
• 1x Bubbling Muck SL
• 1x Command the Dreadhorde
• 1x Consume Spirit
• 1x Consuming Vapors
• 1x Cruel Bargain
• 1x Cruel Tutor
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Ever After SL
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Hex SL
• 1x Infernal Contract
• 1x Killing Wave
• 2x Make an Example
• 1x Never / Return SL
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Profane Command SL
• 1x Promise of Power SL
• 1x Rain of Daggers
• 2x Reanimate
• 1x Repay in Kind
• 1x Restart Sequence *f-etch*
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Ruinous Path SL
• 1x Sever the Bloodline
• 1x Temporal Extortion
• 2x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Wicked Pact *list*

Enchantment (25)

• 1x Baneful Omen SL
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Blessing of Leeches
• 2x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Dark Tutelage SL
• 1x Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1x Eternal Thirst SL
• 1x Font of Agonies
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform SL
• 1x Necropotence
• 2x No Mercy
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation SL
• 1x Polluted Bonds
• 1x Revel in Riches
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Soul Channeling
• 1x Subversion
• 1x Unholy Annex / Ritual Chamber
• 1x Unspeakable Symbol
• 1x Vampiric Link
• 1x Words of Waste
• 1x Wound Reflection

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- - - Version 1.3 - - - 10/04/23

Mono black goodstuff. Monoblack midrange?

The idea behind this deck is I couldn't figure out what monoblack commander to make a deck out of. I have a Chainer, Dementia Master that I was leaning toward. I have a K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth from my precon that's too good not to use somewhere. I love Geth, Lord of the Vault and own one but I don't think he's exactly a powerhouse. I have several Gonti, Lord of Luxury, and he makes a fun commander, but I have a friend who has a deck with him at the helm so it's not my first choice. I love the idea of Ayara, First of Locthwain and Syr Konrad, the Grim too. Erebos, God of the Dead is obviously epic and great for goodstuff. I think Yahenni, Undying Partisan makes a surprisingly good general, and I own several, but I already have a few voltron decks and a few sacrifice decks. I love the idea of Rankle, Master of Pranks as a commander too but I don't like to run Anti-Fun decks and I would have to tiptoe around my build to ensure that. Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker seems quite fun and unique as well.

So had an epiphany: Why not make a deck that can run a bunch of these fun legendary Black creatures in it?

I want to try out having a bomb in the command zone that the deck doesn't fully revolve around. I have a friend who has both a Avacyn, Angel of Hope deck and a Sheoldred, Whispering One deck. They seem inferior to having other commanders (for instance, the Sheoldred deck is zombie tribal) but DAMN if it isn't potent sometimes!

Seeing what I can put together without buying much, if anything--I have some fantastic black cards with no homes.

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So the game plan is heavy ramp and heavy card-draw to find ramp and eventually the wincons. Seems like the appropriate way to go with Vilis, Broker of Blood. Only problem is I want to include a decent number of goodstuffs and legendary creatures, but also might need to wipe the board constantly. Having a midrange plan might not be so bad though. If I had a bunch of Black planeswalkers it might be fun to do monoblack superfriends. No way I can afford to do that though.

If the explicit goal was "Monoblack Control" Erebos, God of the Dead might be the better choice for the commander. I want to try something a little different. Same goes for "Monoblack Goodstuffs"--Erebos or Gonti, Lord of Luxury or K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth (or Sidisi, Undead Vizier?) might be better but people certainly make this deck with Vilis, Broker of Blood frequently.

I want a decent amount of life gain but I don't want the deck to feel too much like my white/black lifegain/life-control deck or my Golgari lifegain deck.

Some builders have gone all-in on cards that make you pay life but that seems dangerous without my commander out. I do need things that can drain my life at instant speed in case Vilis gets removed once he comes down.

A bit of demon tribal is going on but that's more of an accident. There are a few more I want to add but I've run out of space. I like the idea of this deck being kind of control-y and wiping the board over and over until I can stick a few huge demons. Liliana's Contract is in for the card draw. If someone wastes a removal spell on it that's great.

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Cards to likely add: Show

Owned:

Infernal Sovereign -

All is Dust -

Not owned:

Doom Whisperer - Sheoldred   - Bloodthirsty Conqueror

Withering Torment -

Jet Medallion -

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth - Ancient Tomb -

Cards to maybe add: Show

Owned:

Make an Example

Not owned:

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse - Sheoldred, Whispering One - Erebos, God of the Dead - Twilight Prophet

Reanimate - Stinging Study -

Bolas's Citadel - Nyx Lotus - Stonespeaker Crystal - Alhammarret's Archive - Wayfarer's Bauble -

Font of Agonies - Bloodchief Ascension - Painful Quandary - Wound Reflection - Polluted Bonds - No Mercy -

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Cards in the Maybeboard with an SL are cards I own. Cards with MP are potential cuts.

Audited 9/14/20

Date added	4 years
Last updated	18 hours
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	101
Avg. CMC	3.73
Tokens	Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Snake 1/1 B, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	My Decks, Commander decks