Dread Tide by LordHadron

Format: Commander

Commander: Araumi of the Dead Tide

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 17

Deck overview

This is a midrange graveyard deck centered on Araumi of the Dead Tide. It fills the graveyard with Stitcher's Supplier, Crow of Dark Tidings, Returned Reveler, surveil spells, and tutors, then uses encore to multiply enter-the-battlefield effects. Agent of Treachery is the strongest ordinary setup: three tokens can steal three permanents and draw three cards before disappearing. Other targets such as Massacre Wurm, Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Vindictive Lich, and Meteor Golem provide removal or attrition. The deck has solid card selection and functional interaction, but its main activation and target costs are high. It also lacks a deterministic kill, a total lock, and dense protection. Its usual role is to generate a large temporary swing, reanimate value creatures, and grind through repeated resource exchanges rather than race the table.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Agent of Treachery
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Ancient Excavation
  • 1 Araumi of the Dead Tide
  • 1 Archaeomancer
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Burning-Rune Demon
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Crow of Dark Tidings
  • 1 Deranged Assistant
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dream Eater
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Egon, God of Death // Throne of Death
  • 1 Elixir of Immortality
  • 1 Elvish Doomsayer
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foil
  • 1 Forbidden Alchemy
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Meteor Golem
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Notion Rain
  • 1 Phyrexian Gargantua
  • 1 Phyrexian Rager
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Priest of the Blood Rite
  • 1 Ransack the Lab
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Returned Reveler
  • 1 Rings of Brighthearth
  • 1 Scourge of Nel Toth
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Strategic Planning
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Taigam's Scheming
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tomebound Lich
  • 1 Triplicate Titan
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vindictive Lich
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Winds of Rebuke
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine