Yawgmoth 3.0 by user1906705

Format: Commander

Commander: Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 56

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy mono-black Aristocrats Combo deck commanded by Yawgmoth, Thran Physician. The primary game plan revolves around casting Yawgmoth on Turn 3 or 4, utilizing low-cost creature fodder and recursive threats to draw cards and control opposing boards via -1/-1 counters. The deck wins by assembling an infinite loop using Yawgmoth, two creatures with Undying (such as Butcher Ghoul and Geralf's Messenger), and an aristocrat drain effect like Blood Artist or Zulaport Cutthroat. Alternating -1/-1 counters between the undying creatures removes their +1/+1 counters, allowing unlimited sacrifices to drain the entire table in a single turn. The deck features high redundancy, robust reanimation backup, and powerful asymmetric creature attrition.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Bridge from Below
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Butcher Ghoul
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Carnival of Souls
  • 1 Carrier Thrall
  • 1 Conduit Pylons
  • 1 Consuming Corruption
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deathgreeter
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Evernight Shade
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Genesis Chamber
  • 1 Geralf's Messenger
  • 1 Gisa, the Hellraiser
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Greedy Freebooter
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hancock, Ghoulish Mayor
  • 1 Hidden Grotto
  • 1 Infestation Sage
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Master of Dark Rites
  • 1 Memnite
  • 1 Myr Moonvessel
  • 1 Nest of Scarabs
  • 1 Nested Shambler
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Nezumi Linkbreaker
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Walker
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Postmortem Lunge
  • 1 Priest of Gix
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sightless Ghoul
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 27 Swamp
  • 1 Treacherous Pit-Dweller
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Wriggling Grub
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat