Sengir & Tevesh Szat: There are Benefits to Dying

Commander / EDH Control Mono-Black Sacrifice Voltron

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Creature (22)

• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Demon's Disciple
• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Massacre Girl
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Ophiomancer
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Sangromancer
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Land (35)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 27x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Artifact (13)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Blackblade Reforged
• 1x Blade of the Bloodchief
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Lashwrithe
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Promise of Power
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Instant (8)

• 1x Defile
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Infernal Grasp
• 1x Malicious Affliction
• 1x Stinging Study
• 1x Village Rites
• 1x Vona's Hunger
• 1x Wretched Confluence

Commanders (2)

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Revel in Riches
• 1x The Meathook Massacre

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms

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Creature (1)

• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods

Instant (1)

• 1x Curtains' Call

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Tevesh Szat and Baron Sengir have teamed up in this mono black control/voltron deck. The deck includes multiple sac outlets and sac fodder to make Sengir huge. Tevesh Szat provides value along with multiple "death matters" triggers. Please upvote and provide feedback!

Sacrificial Lambs

In order to make Yahenni indestructible and trigger all the other dying matters cards, the deck includes many sacrificial lambs. The deck includes token producers and creatures that can reanimate themselves from the graveyard.

Bitterblossom and Dreadhorde Invasion create a never-ending stream of tokens for sacrifice.

Ophiomancer can create a new deathtouch snake each upkeep to provide sac fodder for Yahenni's indestructibility.

Bloodghast, Nether Traitor, Endless Cockroaches, and Reassembling Skeleton easily bring themselves back from the grave for repeatable sacrifice effects.

Liliana, Dreadhorde General creates sac fodder that turns into card draw when sacrificed.

Pawn of Ulamog creates eldrazi spawn whenever another of our creatures dies, continuing a chain of sac fodder.

Voltron Support

One way this deck wins is through Erebos dealing commander damage. The 5 black devotion is quite easy to achieve to turn him into a creature. Evasion and power boosting help Erebos finish games.

Rogue's Passage, Shizo, Death's Storehouse, Swadowspear, and Loxodon Warhammer help Erebos connect through evasion.

Lashwrithe and Strata Scythe provide a massive power boost with lots of swamps in play.

Raining Death

The deck includes a lot of removal to trigger all the death matters cards.

Board Wipes

Toxic Deluge, Mutilate, + Damnation: cheap black boardwipe staples

Decree of Pain: can net a massive amount of cards.

Deadly Tempest: punishes opponents for getting greedy with too many creatures.

Massacre Wurm: great against token armies with potentially devastating life drain.

Vona's Hunger: This can effectively be an instant speed boardwipe (that doesn't hit us) with the City's Blessing. This can really swing board states.

Targeted Removal

Curtains' Call, Malicious Affliction, Defile, Heartless Act, Feed the Swarm, Force of Despair, and Wretched Confluence: All instant-speed targeted removal.

Fleshbag Marauder, Plaguecrafter + Merciless Executioner: edict effects that gets around indestructible and hexproof creatures.

Liliana, Dreadhorde General: a double edict effect that can really help keep the board under control

The Benefits of Dying

With all of the sacrifice fodder and removal spells, loads of creatures are going to be dying. The deck is designed to accrue incremental value from all this death.

Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos: Repeated edict effects that keep the battlefield clear of threats. Especially oppressive with Bloodghast, Reassembling Skeleton, etc.

Black Market + Pitiless Plunderer: Quickly ramps up with all of the removal in the deck.

Sangromancer, Blood Artist, and Zulaport Cutthroat: All give us lifegain as creatures die. This helps keep our life total high when using Erebos' triggered ability.

Ayara, First of Lochtwain, Vampiric Rites, Liliana, Dreadhorde General and Smothering Abomination: Easily turns into repeatable card advantage with creatures like Endless Cockroaches, Reassembling Skeleton, Bloodghast, and Nether Traitor repeatedly dying and coming back.

Yahenni, Undying Partisan becomes massive from destroying our opponent's creatures, becoming a win con.

Top Ranked	Achieved #6 position overall 7 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.92
Tokens	City's Blessing, Demon */* B, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Snake 1/1 B, Thrull 0/1 B, Thrull 1/1 B, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Army 0/0 B
Folders	De todo, Oloro, Interesting Commander Decks, My decks, cool decks, Good EDH Decks, Interest, cool decks, Commander, Stuff I like
Based on	The Hungriest Aetherborn: Yahenni EDH Daedalus19876 EDH