Burn but in black (copy)

Format: Commander

Commander: The Master of Lake-town

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

The Master of Lake-town leads a mono-black attrition deck that converts every opponent life-loss trigger into mill, while the rest of the list drains the table with aristocrats and lifegain payoffs. The primary plan is to assemble an infinite drain loop with Sanguine Bond + Exquisite Blood, or Bloodchief Ascension + Mindcrank, using sacrifice outlets and recursion to keep pressure. Ayara, Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Vito form the grind core; Gray Merchant and Exsanguinate provide burst. The Master is the unique mill engine and draws cards when it dies. Tergrid and Braids act as value pieces, but no hidden commander drives the build.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Blasting Station
  • 1 Blighted Fen
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu the Glorified
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Braids, Cabal Minion
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cavalier of Night
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Prophecy
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Diabolic Edict
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Diabolic Revelation
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Disciple of Griselbrand
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Foolish Fate
  • 1 God-Eternal Bontu
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Kingpin, Wilson Fisk
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mire in Misery
  • 1 Miren, the Moaning Well
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Oathsworn Vampire
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Pharika's Libation
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Rhystic Tutor
  • 1 Rite of Consumption
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Severed Strands
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Silversmote Ghoul
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 19 Swamp
  • 1 Tenacious Dead
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tyrite Sanctum
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat