Dire Woe to the Vanquished

Commander / EDH Aristocrats Battlecruiser BRG (Jund) Casual Sacrifice Scry Stompy Voltron

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Land (37)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Copperline Gorge
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fire-Lit Thicket
• 4x Forest
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Plaza of Heroes
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Urza's Saga
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Topdeck reward (2)

• 1x Aid from the Cowl
• 1x Etali, Primal Storm

Mana (15)

• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Heartless Summoning
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Overgrowth
• 1x Savage Ventmaw
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Treasure Nabber

Control (8)

• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Cindervines
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Void Winnower
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Resilience (8)

• 1x Aspect of Mongoose
• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Feldon of the Third Path
• 1x Journey to Eternity  ^Flip
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Wrenn and Six

Haste (6)

• 1x Chainer, Nightmare Adept
• 1x Dragon Breath
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Rhythm of the Wild
• 1x Sarkhan Vol
• 1x Xenagos, God of Revels

Commander (1)

Topdeck setup (9)

• 1x Augur of Autumn
• 1x Hua Tuo, Honored Physician
• 1x Lantern of Insight
• 1x Mirri's Guile
• 1x Radha, Heart of Keld
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Treasure Map  ^Flip
• 1x Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire

Misc (8)

• 1x Aggravated Assault
• 1x Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
• 1x Hellkite Charger
• 1x Primal Surge
• 1x Rancor
• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Tergrid, God of Fright  ^Flip

Advantage (6)

• 1x Deathreap Ritual
• 1x Demonic Lore
• 1x Ichor Wellspring
• 1x Morbid Opportunist
• 1x Runic Armasaur
• 1x Twilight Prophet

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Mana (26)

• 1x Basal Thrull
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Dawn's Reflection
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Diligent Farmhand
• 1x Druids' Repository
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Gaea's Touch
• 1x Generator Servant
• 1x Goblin Clearcutter
• 1x Grand Warlord Radha
• 1x Greenweaver Druid
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Market Festival
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Orcish Lumberjack
• 1x Overeager Apprentice
• 1x Revel in Riches
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Thunderscape Familiar
• 1x Tinder Wall
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Yavimaya Dryad

Resilience (11)

• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Charnelhoard Wurm
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
• 1x Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Snake Umbra
• 1x Storrev, Devkarin Lich

Advantage (4)

• 1x Arguel's Blood Fast  ^Flip
• 1x Bloodtracker
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Viridian Revel

Lands (19)

• 1x Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Darigaaz's Caldera
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Flamekin Village
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^Meld
• 1x Jund Panorama
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Kher Keep
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Temple of Malice

Misc (12)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Bramble Sovereign
• 1x Breath of Fury
• 1x Combat Celebrant
• 1x Elvish Piper
• 1x Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
• 1x Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Prismatic Omen
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Sneak Attack

Topdeck setup (7)

• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Cream of the Crop
• 1x Crystal Ball
• 1x Grim Flayer
• 1x Haunted Crossroads
• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Vizier of the Menagerie

Haste (4)

• 1x Domri, Chaos Bringer
• 1x Garna, the Bloodflame
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Urabrask the Hidden

Control (16)

• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Mayhem Devil
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Night Incarnate
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Pestilence
• 1x Pyrohemia
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Seal of Primordium
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Sylvok Replica
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Thrashing Brontodon
• 1x Torpor Orb

Other (14)

• 1x Chevill, Bane of Monsters
• 1x Compost
• 1x Duskwatch Recruiter  ^Flip
• 1x Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Garruk's Uprising
• 1x Grenzo, Havoc Raiser
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Shapers' Sanctuary
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Vivien, Champion of the Wilds
• 1x Yavimaya Elder

Misc Big Cards (7)

• 1x Archfiend of Despair
• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Kaervek the Merciless
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

Topdeck Cheating (1)

• 1x Lurking Predators

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Dire!Vae deck, with some emphasis on creatures.

Opening hands: +2 lands and at least 1 sac fodder/sac fodder enabler (Mana Vault, Awakening Zone, Ramunap Excavator etc.).

Use ramp and haste so that you don't have to wait until T7 to attack with Vae. Dockside Extortionist, Grim Monolith, & Mana Vault are basically rituals that you can feed to Vae after you've cast him. Rocks stolen with Treasure Nabber can be used for the same purpose, as can Heartless Summoning if the -1/-1 is getting you down.

Have tried to keep the average MV from becoming too uncastable. The MV 0-2 cards are fairly high-impact, so that when you bring them in with Vae, they don't feel like too much of a whiff either.

Note that when an Aura is put onto the battlefield without being cast, it doesn't target, so you're free to e.g. put a revealed Rancor on Vae even if he's wearing Lightning Greaves.

Slight trick: You can activate Chainer's ability, sac him with Vae, then cast him from the graveyard with his own ability.

Wincons are Primal Surge, endless combat steps, and commander damage.

Inspired by Baevictis & Friends, do check it out.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	19 - 0 Mythic Rares 56 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.17
Tokens	City's Blessing, Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Dragon 4/4 R, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Emblem Wrenn and Six, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Gold, Treasure
Folders	My (Mostly) Finished Stuff