Survival of the Sickest

Commander / EDH* Combo Competitive Control Enchantment Mono-Black

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Sorcery (13)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Cruel Tutor
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Dimir Machinations
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Never / Return
• 1x Temporal Extortion
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Instant (9)

• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Shred Memory
• 1x Ultimate Price
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Victim of Night

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Sorin Markov

Artifact (12)

• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Feldon's Cane
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Creature (8)

• 1x Bloodline Keeper  ^Flip
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Murderous Rider
• 1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
• 1x Ophiomancer
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Will-o'-the-Wisp

Land (44)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Strip Mine
• 39x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Commander (1)

Enchantment (10)

• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Contamination
• 1x Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Gate to Phyrexia
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Mind Slash
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Sanguine Bond

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Survival of the sickest, where the casulties will keep living...

How to play:

Get up to three mana, playing what you can. Drop Maralen ASAP

Next turn, search for Bitterblossom

Next, search for Contamination

------------------------------You've pretty much won... here's why-----------------------------------

With constant creatures out from Bitterblossom , you can keep Contamination going forever! Hope you all like playing black! (Teehee sorry, Atraxa band-wagoners...)

Now that anyone not playing black is pretty mush locked out of the game, It's your job to make sure those still functioning are no longer doing so. From here, you have tons of options.

You can:

Lock it Down Even More

Use Maralen to get Mana Web for an even more vice grip state. With each land producing black, the opponents are limited to either casting nothing on their turn, or completely tapping out each time. AKA: Overkill

You can also achieve this combo by using Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth with Mana Web

Make Yourself Hard to Attack

Tutor for No Mercy and/or Crawlspace ! Whatever can attack you will die. Good luck to the rest of the table. Maybe even throw in a Witchbane Orb Just to be safe.

Protect your General

Tutor for Lightning Greaves or Swiftfoot Boots to protect Maralen

Have Some Crazy Sh*t Go Down

Feed off the creatures dying to Contamination by getting tons of free mana with Black Market (Bonus points for casting a super-charged Torment of Hailfire , Exsanguinate , or Profane Command )!

Also, cast Grave Pact to make your opponents each sac a creature each turn.

Ramp It Up

Tutor for Crypt Ghast , Liliana of the Dark Realms , Swamp s or mana rocks.

Make a Small Child Cry

Because your opponents can tutor too, there's always a chance that they can try to get come colorless enchantment removal or creature removal before it's too late. Use your Scepters, as well as your discard spells and combos such as Mind Slash /Token generator to make sure that the tutors never make it on the board. Did I mention you also have kill spells galore?

Search for Win Cons

Main Win Cons include cards such as Ob Nixilis, Unshackled , or the Sanguine Bond / Exquisite Blood combo. You can also overrun players with your token generators. Usually however, if they are playing a mono red/blue/white/green deck, they will fold before you can get these out.

Now that you've learned what you can do with the deck, here are some things to keep in mind:

• Bitterblossom isn't the only combo card out there. Someone countered your turn two Bitterblossom ? No worries. Bloodline Keeper  , Will-o'-the-Wisp , and Ophiomancer work as well, and if you're short on cash then Reassembling Skeleton works with 2 mana.

• Don't add draw to the deck as it's useless with your commander. Instead, add tutors if you want more cards at your disposal.

• Protect your tokens. Your biggest weakness is not having a token to sacrifice to Contamination , so it's always a good idea to have Will-o'-the-Wisp out if they destroy Contamination . If your opponents are successful and destroy it, then tutor for Feldon's Cane , Thran Foundry or Elixir of Immortality ASAP and get Contamination back in your deck so you can tutor and cast again.

• As always, be a good sport. There's nothing worse than the guy who giggles while locking you out of the that game we all love.

• If you enjoy the deck, Please upvote and check out my others!

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Top Ranked	Achieved #18 position overall 6 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	WURG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 28 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.86
Tokens	Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Snake 1/1 B, Vampire 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Army 0/0 B
Folders	TTS, Deck ideas, EDH, Interesting Commander Decks, Best, Others, EDH, Fun decks