Every Dusk Rose Has Its Thorn

Commander / EDH Burn Lifegain Mono-Black Necropotence Vampires

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Sorcery (17)

• 1x Ashes to Ashes
• 1x Blood Tribute
• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Epic Downfall
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Necromantic Selection
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Ruinous Path
• 1x Shamble Back
• 1x Stir the Grave
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Vicious Rumors
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Yahenni's Expertise

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Arguel's Blood Fast  ^Flip
• 1x Artificer's Hex
• 1x Curse of Fool's Wisdom
• 1x Font of Agonies
• 1x Gonti's Machinations
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Pestilence
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Revenge of Ravens
• 1x Sanguine Bond

Artifact (15)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Demon's Horn
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Pristine Talisman
• 1x Profane Memento
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Staff of the Death Magus
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Umbral Mantle
• 1x Universal Solvent
• 1x Unstable Obelisk

Instant (11)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Misery Charm
• 1x Rain of Filth
• 1x Skeletal Scrying
• 1x Songs of the Damned
• 1x Tribute to Hunger
• 1x Undying Evil
• 1x Victim of Night
• 1x Withering Boon

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited

Commander (1)

Creature (14)

• 1x Banehound
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Blood Celebrant
• 1x Blood Pet
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Deathgreeter
• 1x Diamond Mare
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
• 1x Magus of the Abyss
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Pontiff of Blight
• 1x Tymaret, Chosen from Death
• 1x Witch of the Moors

Land (30)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Memorial to Folly
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Radiant Fountain
• 22x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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This is a take on the recently spoiled Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose from M21. Sorry for the formatting. I've never written a primer before and I don't know how to format on TCG very well.

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The core idea of this deck is to slowly drain our opponents (or have them kill themselves) while working toward Torment of Hailfire. The backup to this is Pestilence, which can be upgraded to Exsanguinate or Drain Life. I haven't included them because I don't own them.

To achieve a large enough mana count for the X spell, we have mana doublers like Crypt Ghast and Bubbling Muck. I don't own a Cabal Coffers, so I've added the Magus of the Coffers + Umbral Mantle combo for infinite black mana. I you do own a coffers, I suggest swapping a basic Swamp for it rather than removing the combo. If you're against infinite combos, you can swap the 2 cards for more ritual or mana spells; e.g., Nirkana Revenant and/or Culling the Weak. Another dangerous way of generating mana is to pay 3 life to make 1 black with Blood Celebrant + K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth .

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The basic play of the deck is as follows:

Play ramp on your first 1-2 turns. You don't want to play your commander any later than turn 3. It is possible to cast him on turn 1. If he becomes too highly costed, we run a copy of Sanguine Bond as well.

Once he is cast, immediately play a spell that will cause him to start pinging. There are many includes, notably: Vicious Rumors, Diamond Mare, and Staff of the Death Magus.

Continue pinging, drawing cards, and defending yourself until you have a high enough mana count to cast your kill spell. Painful Quandary, Dictate of Erebos, and Blood Artist should do some heavy lifting for you.

When you are ready to win, cast Torment of Hailfire or activate Pestilence until your opponents are dead. Exsanguinate is likely the best card in this slot, and you can even run it alongside these two. You may also want to run Exquisite Blood to go infinite on turn 3+.

Since our average CMC is quite low, it shouldn't be necessary to run 35+ lands for our big burn spell, mostly due to the quantity of mana doublers. Once Vito is officially released, I can playtest this theory and adjust as necessary.

The cards in this decklist are ones that I have in my personal collection. If you are able to upgrade cards in the list for their best-in-slot counterparts, I suggest you do so (Diabolic Tutor for Demonic Tutor, etc.).

Good luck and please leave feedback! Assistance on better formatting would also be appreciated.

Additional cards to consider:

Ayara, First of Locthwain, Subversion, Consume Spirit, Foul-Tongue Shriek, Collective Brutality, Cling to Dust, Phyrexian Arena, Soldevi Adnate, Loxodon Warhammer

Top Ranked	Achieved #3 position in Commander / EDH Mono-Black 3 years ago
Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 months
Key combos	Magus of the Coffers + Umbral Mantle Blood Celebrant + K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 23 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 25 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.83
Tokens	Emblem Ob Nixilis Reignited, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	My Commander Decks, 2021 comanders, Suggestions, Love it