Kill, Kill and Kill some more.

Commander / EDH Mono-Black Sacrifice

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Creature (28)

• 1x Avenger of the Fallen
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloodsoaked Champion
• 1x Bontu the Glorified
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Death-Priest of Myrkul
• 1x Doomed Dissenter
• 1x Ebondeath, Dracolich
• 1x Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1x Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Haunt of the Dead Marshes
• 1x Maha, Its Feathers Night
• 1x Marionette Apprentice
• 1x Mirkwood Bats
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Sifter of Skulls
• 1x Venerated Stormsinger
• 1x Vindictive Vampire
• 1x Warren Soultrader
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Beseech the Mirror
• 1x Dark Salvation
• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Victimize

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General

Land (33)

• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Hidden Necropolis
• 1x High Market
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 21x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Verdant Catacombs

Enchantment (13)

• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Dark Tutelage
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1x Funeral Room / Awakening Hall
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Palace Siege
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Promise of Aclazotz
• 1x Revel in Riches
• 1x Vampiric Rites

Instant (7)

• 1x Armor of Shadows
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Murder
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Rush of Vitality
• 1x Supernatural Stamina
• 1x Village Rites

Commanders (2)

Artifact (12)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Ghost Lantern
• 1x Hero's Blade
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of the Death Magus
• 1x Whip of Erebos

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Kill, Kill and Kill some more.

Sarevok… Only played Baldur's Gate III so I only really know this guy as a crazy cultist side boss. Well, being a cultist suits him anyway.

So, what’s the goal of the deck? Killing, mostly.

Not going to stay dead

Okay, so, Sarevok + cultist of the absolute? Something has to die each turn. Better it be something we can bring back.

So, what does that?

Gravecrawler is the most mana efficient, but requires a zombie on your field. Not a massive ask, but it can be an issue sometimes.

Bloodsoaked Champion and Reassembling Skeleton do it for 2 mana, though you need to attack first for Champion to work.

And Haunt of the Dead Marshes for 3, if you have a legendary, but it’s commander so… You’ll have a legendary.

Ebondeath, Dracolich is the most expensive option here, mana wise. But… Well… Honestly, he’s mostly here because he’s a big dragon, who is also a zombie, which means useful synergies.

And finally, Palace Siege, stack the triggers and return the thing you sac to cultist to your hand.

There’s also Victimize, Room 2 of Funeral Room / Awakening Hall and Whip of Erebos for one-time recursion.

Feed the hunger

If we don’t want to keep pulling something out of the graveyard, we’ll want something that’ll give us something to give to cultist.

Bitterblossom, Black Market Connections, Dreadhorde Invasion do so passively. Though BMC is on main step, so if you don’t have the shapeshifter before upkeep… bye bye Sarevok.

Liliana, Dreadhorde General gives you a zombie with her +1, Death-Priest of Myrkul gives you a skeleton for a mana at the end of your turn, Grave Titan gives you two zombies when it enters or attacks, and Ghoulcaller Gisa turns 1 thing into multiple zombies (include 1 zombie into 2… I don’t get how that works, but hey, it does.)

Pain makes us stronger

Our things are gonna die. It’s just how this deck works. So… We want to hurt everyone else just as much, if not more so.

We have drainers: Blood Artist, Marionette Apprentice, Venerated Stormsinger, Vindictive Vampire, Zulaport Cutthroat and Room 1 of Funeral Room / Awakening Hall to make our things dying hurt everyone else. (As an aside, Bontu's Monument is like this in reverse. Draining when creatures get cast, rather than dying) We have killers: Butcher of Malakir, Dictate of Erebos and Grave Pact to make our things dying kill everyone else’s things. We have batteries: Pawn of Ulamog, Pitiless Plunderer and Sifter of Skulls, our things dying gives us more mana.

End premise here is simple. They need something to die on their turns or Sarevok is going to drain them. We want to make killing our things the bad move.

Death is our currency

Well, now that we got some things that make our things dying something that benefits us… Now we need to kill our things.

The altars, Ashnod's Altar and Phyrexian Altar, will do with with the best result, IE, mana.

Warren Soultrader gives us a treasure, but we lose a life in the process. So… Be careful with it.

Yahenni, Undying Partisan just makes herself harder to get rid off, but there’s no cost to it, so it’s still very useful.

Then we have things that cost us a bit, but net us a bonus. Bontu the Glorified drains our opponents and allows us to scry 1 for 2 mana. Priest of Forgotten Gods has a lot of neat goodies as part of their package, but taps so… not as repeatable. Vampiric Rites draws for 2. And High Market gives us a life for a tap.

And a few single instance sacrifices, Victimize, Deadly Dispute, Plumb the Forbidden and Village Rites, we sacrifice a thing, get a bonus from the method, get a bonus from other such tricks.

Date added	1 year
Last updated	2 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.06
Tokens	Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Human Soldier 1/1 W, On an Adventure, Servo 1/1 C, Shapeshifter 3/2 C, Skeleton 1/1 B, Treasure, Vampire Demon 4/3 WB, Warrior 1/1 R, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Army 0/0 B