Hell or Highwater by TubbyHippie

Format: Commander

Commander: Miss Highwater

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a mono-black discard-control deck that leverages forced discard as its primary engine, punishing opponents for every card they lose while generating value from the discard event itself. The commander, Miss Highwater, offers a political tool that can refill an opponent's hand in exchange for a contract token, but the deck's real work is done by a dense suite of symmetrical discard permanents like Bottomless Pit and Necrogen Mists. Waste Not turns discards into mana, tokens, or cards, while Megrim and Fell Specter convert them into life loss. The deck backs this up with flexible reanimation (Animate Dead, Command the Dreadhorde) and a solid drain package - Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Corrupt, and Consume Spirit - that can close out games once the discard engines have softened the table. A secondary "one-shot" win via Vorpal Sword exists, but the primary path is attrition-based, grinding opponents down over many turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asylum Visitor
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bottomless Pit
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Command the Dreadhorde
  • 1 Consume Spirit
  • 1 Containment Construct
  • 1 Corrupt
  • 1 Creeping Dread
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Delirium Skeins
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell Specter
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Geth's Grimoire
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Greed
  • 1 Hissing Miasma
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Karn, the Great Creator
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Library of Leng
  • 1 Liliana, Waker of the Dead
  • 1 Magus of the Coffers
  • 1 Marchesa's Decree
  • 1 Megrim
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Miss Highwater
  • 1 Necrogen Mists
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nevinyrral's Disk
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ogre Slumlord
  • 1 Oppression
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Phthisis
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Raiders' Wake
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Revenge of Ravens
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sangromancer
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Shrieking Affliction
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stronghold Rats
  • 31 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 The Raven Man
  • 1 Vorpal Sword
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Withering Boon
  • 1 Withering Torment