Black

card:Black Sun's Zenith

Damnation

Terminate

Blightning

card:Life's Finale

Beseech the Queen

Doom Blade

Go for the Throat

card:Geth's Verdict

Tribute to Hunger

Land

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Reliquary Tower

Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

Evolving Wilds

Terramorphic Expanse

Rupture Spire

All fetch lands

All dual lands

Plague Wind and Hex as board wipes that also help Kresh

Black cards you might want to add would be Butcher of Malakir , Gravepact, Mortivore , Royal Assassin . Chainer, Dementia Master to get your creatures back or take one of your opponents. Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief , maybe Deathgreeter and Sangromancer , along with Vein Drinker . you also may want some tutors, such as Demonic Collusion , Diabolic Tutor , or Rune-Scarred Demon . maybe some targeted removal like Doomblade, Go for the Throat , Terminate , Rend Flesh , or Terror .

Some protection for Kresh would be Asceticism , Canopy Cover , some of the unbras like Bear Umbra or Boar Umbra . you could also go the equipment route and get Whispersilk Cloak , Lightning Greaves , swiftfoot boots]], Mask of Avacyn or card:Champion's Helm.

if you find that Kresh dies too often to make him relevent late game I'd add some other big creatures that can win you the game like Molimo, Maro-Sorcerer , Borborygmos , or some of the wurms like Engulfing Slagwurm , Plated Slagwurm , Pelakka Wurm or maybe. other win conditions would be Insurrection , Savage Beating , Relentless Assault , Overrun , or Overwhelming Stampede .

you also might consider running some mana ramp like card:Kodama's Reach, Journey of Discovery , Cultivate , and Far Wanderings . Yavimaya Elder seems pretty perfect for this deck.

you might also look at Mimic Vat and Jedit Ojanen of Efrava

You guys are amazing! Wow that's a lot of cards to sift through, Thank you so much!!

Okay. Finally built it. Played twice 1v1 against a sen triplets]] EDH, and smashed it's face in pretty good.Second game, coupled Rapacious One with Mage Slayer for ten tokens, then fed them to Thorn-Thrash Viashino to make it a 22. Cast Blasphemous Act for one red, re-equipped the mageslayer to the thorn thrash, and because it was the only thing that survived, I swung for effectively 44. Totally forgot to cast Kresh the Bloodbraided both games. He was just redundant with the hands that I drew.

Hellkite Overlord Lightning Reaver Taurean Mauler Skinrender Avatar of Woe Malfegor Madrush Cyclops Blitz Hellion Whispersilk Cloak Lightning Greaves Liege of the Tangle Plague Wind Kilnmouth Dragon Hellkite Charger Apocalypse Hydra

Wow format went crazy... sorry about that.

Those are great cards as well! I really need to make a list of these and rebuild this deck already. I know I've seen some of these cards, and think I actually have a fair portion of them.Thanks for all the help!

Another Commander kill story.

I was playing four person EDH. I had a Mage Slayer , and a Demonspine Whip equipped to Kresh the Bloodbraided . I had a Deathgreeter on the field, and a Blasphemous Act in my hand. I attacked with about 3-4 saprolings on a couple consecutive turns to let them die to buff him to 15/15, cast Blasphemous Act . I gained 20+ life putting me at the magical 42 life, and turn him into a 111/111. I swung and killed an opponent in one shot.

He retaliated with a Condemn ... I killed him, but I was sad. And very proud. Thinking back... I should have gained 111 life... I could have won that game. Damn.

I ended up being the last to die, so I didn't win, but mainly because the little white control deck had held back to let me wind up, and then had removed my power house. :(

You just never know with the politics. Do you show somebody this awesome card you have that will decimate everything but will remove the big player, or do you just try to become the big player sneaky like...

Depends on the game. I don't play many commander games but I had this sick 2v2v2v2 and some guy whipped out Dark Depths about 3rd or 4th turn very secretly like. I was playing a variant of my deck deck:spades-jacks-and-kings when I realized about turn 7 that he was ramping for something big. My ally played a Day of Judgment and after that Mr. Sneaky-pants paid 9 mana for True Conviction and removed his last counter... We scrambled. And watched in absolute horror has he played Clone on his next turn.

OH god Jokernaught. I like the concept though!!

We had no idea what was going on. Our Day of Judgment Wiped out everyone's defense. it was epic. also that deck I used transformed into deck:the-heartless-hotel which might be worth your attention for the black/red it uses.