Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon by jhavlicek88

Format: Commander

Commander: Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This Mono-Black deck uses Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon as an evasive infect threat and resilient Voltron commander. The primary game plan accelerates into a Turn 4 Skithiryx with haste, applying immediate poison pressure to an opponent while relying on built-in regeneration and 1-mana protection spells like Supernatural Stamina to blank standard removal. The supporting 99 balances heavy creature control, board wipes, and targeted removal with poison distribution and proliferation engines like Contagion Engine, Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, and Ichor Rats. A secondary reanimator package featuring Archon of Cruelty and Entomb provides a robust alternative win route if the commander is taxed or suppressed. While the deck possesses dense creature removal and rapid single-target lethality, its primary limitation stems from the sequential nature of combat damage against three separate opponents, granting the table multiple turn cycles to respond.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archenemy's Charm
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Bilious Skulldweller
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Contagion Engine
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drown in Ichor
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Glistening Sphere
  • 1 Grafted Exoskeleton
  • 1 Gulping Scraptrap
  • 1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
  • 1 Hand of the Praetors
  • 1 Ichor Rats
  • 1 Infectious Inquiry
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Inkmoth Nexus
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Liliana of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Maha, Its Feathers Night
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Malicious Affliction
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Myr Convert
  • 1 Necromantic Selection
  • 1 Paragon of Open Graves
  • 1 Pestilent Syphoner
  • 1 Phyresis
  • 1 Phyresis Outbreak
  • 1 Phyrexian Atlas
  • 1 Phyrexian Crusader
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reaper of Sheoldred
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Compleation
  • 1 Sudden Spoiling
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 30 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of Truth and Justice
  • 1 Tainted Strike
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vraska's Fall
  • 1 Whispering Specter
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician