Budget Ayara

Commander / EDH* Mono-Black

ultitaria

Creature (29)

• 1x Abhorrent Overlord
• 1x Bloodsoaked Champion
• 1x Bloodthirsty Aerialist
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Demon of Catastrophes
• 1x Doomed Dissenter
• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Dusk Legion Zealot
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Gutterbones
• 1x Josu Vess, Lich Knight
• 1x Lazotep Reaver
• 1x Massacre Girl
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Ogre Slumlord
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Piper of the Swarm
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Sanitarium Skeleton
• 1x Sengir Autocrat
• 1x Sifter of Skulls
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Tenacious Dead
• 1x Vampire Nighthawk
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Instant (9)

• 1x Altar's Reap
• 1x Costly Plunder
• 1x Defile
• 1x Force of Despair
• 1x Price of Fame
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Victim of Night
• 1x Vona's Hunger
• 1x Wretched Confluence

Artifact (9)

• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Heraldic Banner
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Bad Moon
• 1x Dark Prophecy
• 1x Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Open the Graves
• 1x Rite of Belzenlok
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Vampiric Rites

Commander (1)

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Forever Young
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Never / Return
• 1x Plague of Vermin
• 1x Ruinous Path
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Yawgmoth's Vile Offering

Land (35)

• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Leechridden Swamp
• 1x Memorial to Folly
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 30x Swamp

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited

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Sideboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Vindictive Vampire

Artifact (1)

• 1x Panharmonicon

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Crux of Fate

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Black Market

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 1x Infernal Genesis

Creature (2)

• 1x Champion of Stray Souls
• 1x Harvester of Souls

Artifact (1)

• 1x Desecrated Tomb

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I like the idea of building this deck because it is a lot more modular than other options - there's a better version of everything in black, and the deck components scale up linearly with your budget. Card advantage is also easy to come by with this type of deck, as long as you can keep your engines on the board.

Basic primer - use Ayara to sac and draw, crap out creatures and slowly drain enemies, or end game with Plague of Vermin or something similar.

I'm currently looking for more low-price recursive options and toolbox staples for this deck. The original plan was to keep the main deck at $50 or lower. Suggestions welcome.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Exclude colors	WURG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 4 Rares 20 - 1 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.17
Tokens	City's Blessing, Cleric 0/1 B, Demon 6/6 B, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Emblem Ob Nixilis Reignited, Harpy 1/1 B, Morph 2/2 C, Rat 1/1 B, Serf 0/1 B, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Army 0/0 B, Zombie Knight 2/2 B