Yawgmoth 67 by AdidasPete

Format: Commander

Commander: Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 67

Deck overview

This mono-black deck utilizes Yawgmoth, Thran Physician as a command-zone sacrifice outlet, card draw engine, and board control tool. The deck accelerates through dense fast mana and rituals to deploy Yawgmoth alongside recursive creatures like Forsaken Miner, Gravecrawler, and Bloodghast. By turning life and disposable bodies into card advantage and -1/-1 counters, the deck suppresses opposing creature boards while digging aggressively for combo pieces. The primary win condition executes infinite sacrifice and drain loops using Phyrexian Altar, Forsaken Miner, and Blood Artist (or redundant aristocrats like Zulaport Cutthroat and Marionette Apprentice). Alternatively, the deck can tutor into a clean two-card combo with Professor Onyx and Chain of Smog, or generate massive mana with Cabal Coffers and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx for a lethal Torment of Hailfire. Asymmetric stax pieces like Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos keep opposing battlefields clear until the combo resolves.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stromgald Cabal
  • 27 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Withering Boon
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat