Horobi's Wild Ride

Commander / EDH Control Mono-Black Reanimator

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Sorcery (16)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Bargain
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Profane Command
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Artifact (11)

• 1x Cauldron of Souls
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Liquimetal Torque
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Squee's Toy
• 1x Tooth of Chiss-Goria
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Planeswalker (5)

• 1x Karn Liberated
• 1x Karn, the Great Creator
• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Sorin Markov
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Creature (15)

• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Custodi Lich
• 1x Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Forsworn Paladin
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Hex Parasite
• 1x Kothophed, Soul Hoarder
• 1x Murderous Rider
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Tetzimoc, Primal Death
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood

Instant (9)

• 1x Contagion
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Debt to the Kami
• 1x Liliana's Triumph
• 1x March of Wretched Sorrow
• 1x Sickening Shoal
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Touch of Darkness
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation

Commander (1)

Land (37)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Detection Tower
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 23x Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Tower of the Magistrate
• 1x Tyrite Sanctum
• 1x Urborg
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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Fasten your harness, because the ride never ends.

Welcome to one of, if not my favorite, Commander/EDH decks. Stupid interactions. Crazy scenarios. Perfect chaos. Horobi is the name of the game, and the game is fucked up.

You could name 5 more potent monoblack commanders and I'd tell you to shut up because Horobi is the bee's knees.

What can Horobi actually do?

Horobi's ability changes how the game itself is played. Once a creature becomes the target of a spell or ability - it is destroyed.

Due to this ability, Horobi can:

Destroy creatures in mass - Cauldron of Souls, Touch of Darkness, etc. become mass destruction spells. You can now have semi-permanent "Tap: Plague Wind".

Bypass normal counterspells - Due to the nature of casting a spell, you will choose targets while casting it. This means that unless your opponent uses a spell like Stifle to counter the triggered ability, Horobi's trigger will resolve before the spell itself can.

Disable your opponent - Equipment like Skullclamp is rendered useless. Anything your opponent uses to target their own creatures for benefit is null.

What CAN'T Horobi do?

I know, I know. I've got you hyped up now, but there are actually a few misconceptions on how spells resolve regarding Horobi.

For instance:

Cantrips DO NOT work - Aphotic Wisps, Lose Hope and such only fully work on legal resolution. Due to Horobi's ability the creature will die before these spells resolve, causing the spell to counter itself upon 'resolution'.

Enchantment Cantrips - To extend further, cards like Unhallowed Pact will not work. Once you target a creature with an enchantment - that creature is gone. Unhallowed Pact resolves with no legal target, countering itself. Cards like Scourgemark that have 'enter the battlefield' effects will not work due to the same reason.

Regenerate via Targeting - Regeneration via a method such as Asceticism or Draconian Cylix will kill your creatures before resolving.

Equip equipment - Your Lightning Greaves will Murder your creature if Horobi is on the field.

To summarize for any items missed - if your spell/ability/anything requires a target to resolve, it will not work.

What does this deck even do?

It does a lot of things, but at the same time not much. Lots of weirdo interactions with the commander's ability, but it boils down to a monoblack control/reanimation deck.

This deck is hilariously insane by warping the rules, thus turning normal EDH games into straight chaos. While it doesn't always perform perfectly, the deck always seems to put up a challenge through initial confusion and forcing opponents to think around it. Anyway, with all that being said -

Thanks for reading!

Date added	10 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.32
Tokens	Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, On an Adventure, Monarch Emblem, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
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