Kirk Van Houten, Can I borrow a life? (K'rrik)

Commander / EDH Lifegain Mono-Black Suicide Black

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Sorcery (19)

• 1x Ancient Craving
• 1x Behold the Beyond
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Blood Tithe
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Mastermind's Acquisition
• 1x Peer into the Abyss
• 1x Promise of Power
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Repay in Kind
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Tendrils of Agony

Land (35)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 29x Swamp
• 1x Urza's Saga

Instant (5)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Tendrils of Corruption

Artifact (17)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sisay's Ring
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Vorpal Sword
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Font of Agonies
• 1x Gonti's Machinations
• 1x Greed
• 1x Leshrac's Sigil
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Pestilence
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Wound Reflection

Commander (1)

Creature (14)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Blood Celebrant
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Marauding Blight-Priest
• 1x Netherborn Phalanx
• 1x Pestilence Demon
• 1x Reiver Demon
• 1x Sangromancer
• 1x Scourge of the Skyclaves
• 1x Skirge Familiar
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood
• 1x Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

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Sideboard

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Stronghold Discipline
• 1x Temporal Extortion

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Triskaidekaphobia

Land (1)

• 1x Glacial Chasm

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Maybeboard

Instant (2)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Corpse Dance

Artifact (1)

• 1x Jet Medallion

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Doomsday

Creature (1)

• 1x Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Necropotence

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Strategy

Use life as a resource to cast spells and control your life total as well as your opponents! With Kirk you can pay with your life almost anything and when you have Blood Celebrant you can pay everything, play with your life and try to get it as low as possible and then use Repay in Kind or exchange it with your enemies with Soul Conduit or Magus of the Mirror and then ending your opponents with Tendrils of Agony for example.

Combos

Exquisite Blood + Sanguine Bond (or Marauding Blight-Priest):

Result: Infinite life loss. Infinite lifegain triggers.

Requires: All permanents on the battlefield. You have a way to gain life or a way to cause an opponent to lose life.

Steps: Gain life. Sanguine Bond triggers, causing target opponent to lose life equal to the amount you just gained. Exquisite Blood triggers, gaining you life equal to the amount of life the opponent lost. Repeat from step 2.

Aetherflux Reservoir + Exquisite Blood:

Result: Infinite damage. Infinite lifegain triggers.

Requires: All permanents on the battlefield. You have at least 51 health.

Steps: Activate Aetherflux Reservoir by paying 50 life, dealing 50 damage to target opponent. Exquisite Blood triggers, gaining you 50 life. Repeat.

Aetherflux Reservoir + K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth + Leshrac's Sigil:

Result: Infinite damage. Infinite lifegain. Infinitely many +1/+1 counters on K'rrik.

Requires: Leshrac's Sigil in hand. All other permanents on the battlefield. You have at least 33 life, though this amount can be reduced by having extra black mana available and by having cast other spells this turn.

Steps: Pay 4 life to cast Leshrac's Sigil. K'rrik and Aetherflux Reservoir both trigger. Resolve the K'rrik trigger first, putting a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik. Resolve the Aetherflux Reservoir trigger, gaining you life equal to the number of spells that you have cast this turn. Activate Leshrac's Sigil by paying 4 life, returning it to your hand. Repeat.

Blood Celebrant + Blood Tithe + K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth + Repay in Kind:

Result: Kill each opponent.

Requires: K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth and Blood Celebrant on the battlefield. Repay in Kind and Blood Tithe in your hand. At least 34 life.

Steps: Use K'rrik, son of Yawgmoth's ability to use Blood Celebrant's activated ability until your life total is 1 to make 11 b. Cast Repay in kind to make each opponents life total 1. Cast Blood Tithe

Scourge of the Skyclaves + Wound Reflection:

Result: Infinite life loss. Win the game.

Requires: Wound Reflection on the battlefield. Scourge of the Skyclaves in hand. :mana5: b b available.

Steps: Cast Scourge of the Skyclaves kicked for 5mana & bb. When it enters the battlefield, each player loses half of their life, rounded up. At the beginning of the end step Wound Reflection triggers, causing each opponent to lose the other half of their life.

Extra

Trun 1 kill (rare odds):

Swamp + Dark Ritual + Sol Ring + K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth +Blood Celebrant (float 9 mana) + Repay in Kind (5 mana plus 2 phyrexian) + Blood Tithe

Date added	3 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 26 - 2 Rares 24 - 1 Uncommons 13 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.51
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Demon X/X B