Sacrificios by user8958576

Format: Commander

Commander: Malik, Grim Manipulator

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a Mardu attrition and aristocrats strategy commanded by Malik, Grim Manipulator. The game plan revolves around forcing opponents to sacrifice their creatures through a dense suite of symmetrical edict spells and enter-the-battlefield abilities. Malik converts every sacrificed opposing creature into a Treasure token, generating massive mana acceleration and token volume. The deck leverages blink and flicker spells like Ephemerate and Cloudshift to repeatedly re-trigger Malik and other utility creatures, locking down opposing boards while amassing resources. Win conditions center on token-drain engines such as Mirkwood Bats, Reckless Fireweaver, and Kambal, Profiteering Mayor, which deal direct damage whenever Treasures and tokens enter or leave the battlefield. Symmetrical disruption pieces like Smallpox, Rankle's Prank, and High Noon constrain opposing development while Malik breaks parity. Although the deck lacks fast mana, tutors, and instant-speed countermagic, its high removal density and compounding resource drain create an oppressive mid-game clock that steadily closes out the table.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aang, the Last Airbender
  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Airbender Ascension
  • 1 Airbending Lesson
  • 1 Appa, Loyal Sky Bison
  • 1 Appa, Steadfast Guardian
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barter in Blood
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass
  • 1 Boros Garrison
  • 1 Chainer's Edict
  • 1 Cinder Barrens
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Vapors
  • 1 Crack the Earth
  • 1 Dalkovan Encampment
  • 1 Demon's Disciple
  • 1 Diabolic Edict
  • 1 Distinguished Conjurer
  • 1 Drifting Meadow
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Flicker of Fate
  • 1 Flickering Hound
  • 1 Fraying Omnipotence
  • 1 Garruk, Veiled Butcher
  • 1 Gerrard's Verdict
  • 1 Geth's Verdict
  • 1 Glider Staff
  • 1 High Noon
  • 1 Hissing Miasma
  • 1 Innocent Blood
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Malik, Grim Manipulator
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Misguided Rage
  • 1 Misty Palms Oasis
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Painful Lesson
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Perforating Artist
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Mire
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rankle's Prank
  • 1 Razortrap Gorge
  • 1 Realm of Koh
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Reign of the Pit
  • 1 Restless Fortress
  • 1 Sangromancer
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Settle Beyond Reality
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Slip On the Ring
  • 1 Smallpox
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stone Quarry
  • 1 Sudden Edict
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 1 Sunpearl Kirin
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Long Reach of Night // Animus of Night's Reach
  • 1 Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher
  • 1 Tribute to Hunger
  • 1 Whims of the Fates
  • 1 Wind-Scarred Crag
  • 1 Windcrag Siege
  • 1 Winnowing
  • 1 Wispweaver Angel