Touches You To Death by bigsleep0

Format: Commander

Commander: The Serpent Society

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Golgari deathtouch aristocrats deck helmed by The Serpent Society. The commander's ability - whenever another deathtouch creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature - turns the deck's dense deathtouch creature base into a relentless board-control engine. The primary win condition is attrition: forced sacrifices clear the board while Blood Artist, Falkenrath Noble, Poison-Tip Archer, Syr Konrad, the Grim, and Dreadhound convert every death into life loss across the table. Secondary lines include deathtouch combat damage with Hooded Blightfang and Ohran Frostfang providing drain and card advantage, Unstoppable Slasher halving life totals, and the commander's ward granting poison counters as a deterrent. The deck has no infinite combos; it wins through incremental value, board control, and drain over many turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Abundant Growth
  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Attercop
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Body Launderer
  • 1 Bushmaster, Coiled Henchman
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Recluse
  • 1 Deathcap Cultivator
  • 1 Deathgreeter
  • 1 Dreadhound
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Falkenrath Noble
  • 1 Fell Stinger
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 14 Forest
  • 1 Glissa Sunslayer
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
  • 1 Harvester of Souls
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hissing Quagmire
  • 1 Hooded Blightfang
  • 1 Hornet Queen
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Krosan Grip
  • 1 Leyline Prowler
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Nightshade Dryad
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Oakhame Adversary
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
  • 1 Obscuring Haze
  • 1 Ogre Slumlord
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plague Wind
  • 1 Poison-Tip Archer
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Scavenger Drake
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 The Serpent Society
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tinybones, the Pickpocket
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast
  • 1 Viridian Longbow
  • 1 Withering Torment