Unlucky for Some

Commander / EDH* Bracket 3 Curse UBR (Grixis)

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Land (35)

• 1x Blazemire Verge
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Gloomlake Verge
• 1x Haunted Ridge
• 8x Island
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Murky Sewer
• 1x Peculiar Lighthouse
• 1x Razortrap Gorge
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stormcarved Coast
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Blasphemous Edict
• 1x Dance with Calamity
• 1x Demonic Bargain
• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Into the Maw of Hell
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Startled Awake  ^Flip
• 1x Wheel of Misfortune

Enchantment (13)

• 1x Captive Audience
• 1x Copy Enchantment
• 1x Curse of Misfortunes
• 1x Curse of Obsession
• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Curse of Verbosity
• 1x Curse of the Bloody Tome
• 1x Curse of the Restless Dead
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Oubliette
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Triskaidekaphobia

Instant (13)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Archive Trap
• 1x Bedevil
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Consider
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Countersquall
• 1x Infernal Grasp
• 1x Negate
• 1x Opt
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Withering Torment

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1x Narset, Parter of VeilsGC

Commander (1)

Artifact (13)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Claws of Gix
• 1x Cursed Mirror
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Elbrus, the Binding Blade  ^Flip
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Skull of Orm
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Creature (9)

• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Nekusar, the Mindrazer
• 1x Razorkin Needlehead
• 1x Screaming Nemesis
• 1x Thassa's OracleGC
• 1x The Mindskinner
• 1x Tree of Perdition
• 1x Triskaidekaphile

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Creature (13)

• 1x Bitterheart Witch
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Disciple of Perdition
• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x Entity Tracker
• 1x Jerren, Corrupted Bishop  ^Flip
• 1x Kefka, Court Mage  ^Flip
• 1x Kess, Dissident Mage
• 1x Ludevic's Test Subject  ^Flip
• 1x Magus of the Moon
• 1x Opposition AgentGC
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls

Instant (3)

• 1x Bleed Dry
• 1x Olivia's Midnight Ambush
• 1x Tragic Fall

Enchantment (13)

• 1x Chant of the Skifsang
• 1x Curse of Bloodletting
• 1x Curse of Disturbance
• 1x Curse of Echoes
• 1x Curse of Surveillance
• 1x Curse of Unbinding
• 1x Grievous Wound
• 1x Maddening Hex
• 1x Meathook Massacre 2
• 1x Rain of Gore
• 1x Stensia Uprising
• 1x The Rollercrusher Ride
• 1x Trespasser's Curse

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Sorin the Mirthless

Battle (1)

• 1x Invasion of Innistrad  ^Flip

Artifact (5)

• 1x Bolas's CitadelGC
• 1x Cursed Recording
• 1x Ghost Vacuum
• 1x Keys to the House
• 1x Marina Vendrell's Grimoire

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Damnation
• 1x Harmless Offering
• 1x Ruthless Disposal
• 1x Shivan Meteor
• 1x Sign in Blood

Land (3)

• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Sulfur Falls

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Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor is a fun Grixis commander who cares about curses, but secretly better built for...other things (I'll get to them later). Let's be clear here: curse tribal sucks. You put them all in, load people up, they hate you, you die. Many of the effects aren't enough to really slow your opponents down but will still garner their ire and Lynde's extra cards are refuelling you with nothing that helps. So where can we go? Some curses are still good, and Lynde does negate their biggest drawback in commander games so we'll be keeping enough to get the point across and hopefully draw some extra cards. That leaves room to start introducing some other themes, beginning with a certain number. Grixis can run almost all the MTG cards which care about the number thirteen, and I think they fit the flavour of "cheerful torment" and janky playstyle while providing actual win cons - something the average Lynde deck struggles with. Keeping this in mind I've also included some "deck yourself to win" options in Jace, Wielder of Mysteries, his creature buddies and good old Doomsday. Here this is not the primary strategy for the deck but just another card that can win a game, with the common cards for a Doomsday pile just happening to be cards I'd probably run anyway for their generic Grixis utility. Outside that we've got the usual 2CMC rocks, plenty of cantrips and control elements to keep our opponents in check while we try to assemble something...

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 months
Splash colors	R
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.09
Tokens	Gold, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Decayed
Folders	X-Files