Unparalleled Cognitive Dissonance

Commander / EDH* Casual Exile Food Lifegain Mono-Black Multiplayer Sacrifice Suicide Black

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Creature (34)

• 1x Aphemia, the Cacophony
• 1x Barrier of Bones
• 1x Blood Operative
• 1x Burglar Rat
• 1x Cauldron Familiar
• 1x Cavern Whisperer
• 1x Chittering Harvester
• 1x Chittering Witch
• 1x Clockwork Servant
• 1x Dirge Bat
• 1x Discordant Piper
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
• 1x Foulmire Knight
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Gutterbones
• 1x Insatiable Hemophage
• 1x Lampad of Death's Vigil
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Murderous Rider
• 1x Mysterious Egg
• 1x Nightmare Shepherd
• 1x Order of Midnight
• 1x Orzhov Enforcer
• 1x Piper of the Swarm
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Serrated Scorpion
• 1x Smitten Swordmaster
• 1x Spawn of Mayhem
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Tempting Witch
• 1x Thirsting Shade
• 1x Vindictive Vampire
• 1x Whispering Snitch

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Agonizing Remorse
• 1x Call of the Death-Dweller
• 1x Cauldron's Gift
• 1x Creeping Chill
• 1x Dead Revels
• 1x Deadly Visit
• 1x Foreboding Fruit
• 1x Forever Young
• 1x Gruesome Menagerie
• 1x Memory Leak
• 1x Mutual Destruction
• 1x Taste of Death

Instant (7)

• 1x Bake into a Pie
• 1x Clear the Stage
• 1x Drag to the Underworld
• 1x Eat to Extinction
• 1x Mausoleum Secrets
• 1x Pharika's Libation
• 1x Price of Fame

Artifact (4)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Heraldic Banner
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Witch's Oven

Commander (1)

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Font of Agonies
• 1x Ill-Gotten Inheritance
• 1x Minion's Return
• 1x Omen of the Dead
• 1x Revenge of Ravens
• 1x Underworld Dreams

Land (33)

• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Command Tower
• 30x Swamp
• 1x Witch's Cottage

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Creature (13)

• 1x Archfiend's Vessel
• 1x Blade Juggler
• 1x Eye Collector
• 1x Gravebreaker Lamia
• 1x Lotleth Giant
• 1x Mindwrack Harpy
• 1x Mire Triton
• 1x Palladium Myr
• 1x Silversmote Ghoul
• 1x Thieves' Guild Enforcer
• 1x Underworld Sentinel
• 1x Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1x Woe Strider

Artifact (4)

• 1x Chromatic Orrery
• 1x Nyx Lotus
• 1x The Cauldron of Eternity
• 1x Wand of Vertebrae

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana, Waker of the Dead

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Sanctum of Stone Fangs

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Funeral Rites
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Sanguine Indulgence
• 1x Vicious Rumors

Instant (1)

• 1x Corpse Churn

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The strategy of this deck is to slowly drain the life of all your opponents, while keeping yours pretty high.

Ayara, First of Locthwain goes nicely with:

• Cauldron Familiar + Witch's Oven: each time it enters the battlefield it triggers Ayara + it's own effect.
• Syr Konrad, the Grim: Damage in, damage out. Combined with Cauldron Familiar is very ugly.
• Chittering Witch creates three tokens (4 players game) and this does 4 damage to all players. Good for sacrifices for food for Cauldron Familiar too.
• Minion's Return: Enchant Chittering Witch? Or any ugly card so that it can come back.
• Any card to return Chittering Witch from the graveyard.
• Call of the Death-Dweller and Gruesome Menagerie, very ugly.
• Gutterbones can be very ugly, especially if you can loop it a couple of times.

All these are the 'main' combo to drain.

Then we have:

• Underworld Dreams
• Revenge of Ravens
• Ill-Gotten Inheritance
• Bastion of Remembrance
• Creeping Chill
• Vindictive Vampire
• Spawn of Mayhem
• Serrated Scorpion
• Lampad of Death's Vigil
• Gray Merchant of Asphodel

All these keep the same essence of the main ability and help to drain the opponents.

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Then we have a few others with specific abilities to drain:

1) Whispering Snitch uses Surveil to drain.

The following cards have surveil:

• Doom Whisperer
• Barrier of Bones
• Deadly Visit
• Price of Fame

2) Insatiable Hemophage uses Mutate to hit hard.

The following cards have mutate:

• Cavern Whisperer
• Chittering Harvester
• Dirge Bat

3) Smitten Swordmaster can be useful to, but the deck it's not optimize for it.

The only knights of the deck are:

• Foulmire Knight
• Midnight Reaper
• Murderous Rider
• Order of Midnight
• Syr Konrad, the Grim

So yeah, there's not much more to the deck.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 17 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 23 - 0 Commons
Cards	98
Avg. CMC	2.98
Tokens	Copy Clone, Food, Goat 0/1 W, Human Soldier 1/1 W, On an Adventure, Rat 1/1 B, Spirit 1/1 WB, Zombie 2/2 B