Black Jokes (Gallowbraid Group Slug & Life Swap)

Commander / EDH Aggro Artifact Demons Devotion Group Slug Lifelink Mono-Black Suicide Black Theme/Gimmick

Gattison

Draw & Tutor (18)

• 1x Ambition's Cost
• 1x Bitter Revelation
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Dusk Legion Zealot
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Peer into the Abyss
• 1x Phyrexian Rager
• 1x Price of Knowledge
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Spellbook
• 1x Underworld Connections
• 1x Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood

Cheat Death (7)

• 1x Magus of the Mirror
• 1x Pact Weapon
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Profane Transfusion
• 1x Repay in Kind
• 1x Soul Conduit
• 1x Stunning Reversal

Life Tricks (6)

• 1x Defiant Bloodlord
• 1x Quietus Spike
• 1x Sorin Markov
• 1x Torgaar, Famine Incarnate
• 1x Tree of Perdition
• 1x Triskaidekaphobia

Plan B (2)

• 1x Phyrexian Processor
• 1x Sanguine Bond

Lands (36)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sanctum of Eternity
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 15x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Warped Landscape

Voltron (8)

• 1x Blackblade Reforged
• 1x Lashwrithe
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Nightmare Lash
• 1x Quietus Spike
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Vorpal Sword
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Lifegain (6)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Commander (1)

Ramp (12)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Cryptolith Fragment  ^Flip
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
• 1x Marshland Bloodcaster
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Removal (7)

• 1x Dismember
• 1x Flay Essence
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Murderous Rider
• 1x Pharika's Libation
• 1x Vendetta
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Reanimator (2)

• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Whip of Erebos

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Maybeboard

Other (18)

• 1x Ashes to Ashes
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Commander's Plate
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Font of Agonies
• 1x Greed
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Morinfen
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Reckless Spite
• 1x Repay in Kind
• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Soul Conduit
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

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EDH/Commander Gallowbraid Voltron
Mono-Black {B} damage = loss of life

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Gallowbraid wants to trample over things, as would be expected, but he also wants you to pay a lot of life--and enjoy it.

• VOLTRON: Help Gallowbraid be more of a threat when attacking all the time by Voltroning him out. He's already got trample, so big buffs like Argentum Armor and protective equipment like Lightning Greaves make him a large, non-targetable target. Also, things like Accorder's Shield give him vigilance for cheap, and things like Sword of Vengeance give him vigilance plus other stuff, making him able to swing and still block during other turns.
• LIFEGAIN: Each of your turns that Gallowbraid stays on the field will cost you one more life than the turn before. Therefore a lot of lifegain is included in this deck to compensate. Ideally, we want to keep Gallowbraid out for a long time with him getting killed, and this may end up costing a lot of life.
• REANIMATOR: As a back-up plan, there is also a bit of recursion in this deck, so that you can refuse to pay his cumulative upkeep, let him die and then just bring him back from the graveyard to your hand for cheap. This will also avoid increasing commander taxes. The recursion stuff can also be used for other things, to, of course.
• OVERKILL: Our commander is voltroning and attacking, but with multiple opponents, getting commander damage in on all of them may be tough. While you chip away at them, you're also chipping away at yourself, making it a race to the bottom that you don't want to win. Therefore these cards can help you set up one-shot-kills and other devastating attacks that can get you closer to victory more quickly.
• REMOVAL: Now we get into the basics of every EDH deck. The removal here is cheap and effective, that's it. Things like Defile and Walk the Plank hit a wide variety of targets very effectively. Meanwhile cards like In Garruk's Wake take advantage of the ramp this deck should generate to wipe the board and still leave you with an advantage.
• DRAW & TUTOR: Every EDH deck needs draw power--the ability to draw extra cards when you need/want them. Tutoring is also very nice. A lot of the draw in this deck, like Necropotence and Bolas's Citadel, takes advantage of the life-loss/lifegain themes already in the deck. Other things like Infiltration Lens and Grim Haruspex take advantage of other events this deck is sure to come across, like being blocked, or losing your commander.
• RAMP: Beyond the basic stuff you'd expect to find in someone's ramp package, this deck also has mana-doublers like Nirkana Revenant and Crypt Ghast, as well as Liliana of the Dark Realms to pull swamps out of your deck.
• LANDS: Cards like Evolving Wilds and Myriad Landscape help Liliana get you more swamps and Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth turns everything, everywhere into a swamp. Rogue's Passage helps Gallowbraid attack and Sanctum of Eternity can keep him safe or help you avoid his cumulative upkeep. Finally, Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx is always good ramp, and Reliquary Tower helps you keep all the cards you draw.

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Devotion 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Lifegain 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Trample 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Voltron 3 years ago
Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 months
Exclude colors	WURG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.92
Tokens	Minion X/X B, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Horror */* C
Folders	Gattison's EDH/Commander Decks