New Braids

Format: Commander

Commander: Braids, Arisen Nightmare

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Braids, Arisen Nightmare is a mono-black aristocrats/drain engine. The primary plan is to create a disposable token or recursive creature each turn and sacrifice it to Braids's end-step trigger, turning it into card draw plus a forced life-loss/sacrifice choice for all opponents. Ayara, Zulaport Cutthroat, Mirkwood Bats, Bastion of Remembrance, and Marionette Apprentice convert each token entry and death into further drains, while recursive skeletons, Phyrexian Reclamation, and Dread Return keep fodder available. Gray Merchant of Asphodel is the main devotion burst, and Syr Konrad punishes milling and reanimation. There is no hidden commander; the deck is built around Braids and uses combat with Gisa-buffed Zombies only as a secondary angle.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abyssal Harvester
  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodsoaked Champion
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cult Conscript
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Falkenrath Noble
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Gisa, the Hellraiser
  • 1 Gixian Puppeteer
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Leaden Myr
  • 1 Liliana of the Veil
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mutilate
  • 1 Mycosynth Wellspring
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Omen of the Dead
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Oppression
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Persistent Specimen
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Prized Statue
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 33 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat