La Danse Macabre

Commander / EDH Aristocrats Infinite Combo Mono-Black Sacrifice Zombie

Noire_Samhain

Creature (30)

• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Butcher Ghoul
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Cemetery Reaper
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Death Baron
• 1x Diregraf Colossus
• 1x Draugr Necromancer
• 1x Geralf's Messenger
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Graveborn Muse
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 1x Lord of the Undead
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Relentless Dead
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Species Specialist
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Undead Warchief
• 1x Vengeful Dead
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Land (34)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x High Market
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 20x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Victimize

Instant (6)

• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Songs of the Damned

Commander (1)

Artifact (11)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thornbite Staff

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Carnival of Souls
• 1x Endless Ranks of the Dead
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x NecropotenceGC
• 1x Open the Graves
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation

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Artifact (3)

• 1x Junkyo Bell
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Stoneforge Masterwork

Creature (1)

• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel

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I've always wanted to do Zombie tribal, and I've wanted to make a mono-black deck. After getting my hands on Gisa and a Thornbite staff to do her special little dance, I finally decided: why not do it now? The aim is to steadily create a horde of undead to overrun our opponents, mainly through the many, many lords Zombies have and token production.

We run a few combos to really crank our army into overdrive:

Gisa+Thornbite Staff+Carnival of Souls and a creature to sacrifice allows us to create as many 2/2 zombies as we have life and even net extra mana with a 2/2 or bigger. Offset the life lost with Ayara, Zulaport Cutthroat or Blood Artist to go to even further!

Yawgmoth, Thran Physician+Butcher Ghoul+Geralf's Messenger lets us draw as many cards as we have the life to spend.

Grave Titan+Ashnod's Altar+Nim Deathmantle gives us infinite Zombie tokens and death triggers.

Gravecrawler+Phyrexian Altar+Open the Graves and a zombie on the field allows us to get infinite tokens and death triggers yet again.

To spend the infinite mana, cast a really big Torment of Hailfire. To win with the death triggers, have Zulaport Cutthroat, Blood Artist, Plague Belcher, or Vengeful Undead our to ping people to death.

Zombies are surprisingly strong in Mono-black alone. I miss some lords from the other colors, but I really want to do a deck of each color at some point.

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position overall 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.82
Tokens	Human Cleric 1/1 WB, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	PlayDecks, Zombie Stuff