At what cost by MISTAHJ

Format: Commander

Commander: K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black midrange engine led by K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth. K'rrik enables aggressive mana velocity by paying life for black mana symbols. The deck leverages this acceleration to cast high-impact threats, mass removal, and card-draw spells well ahead of normal curves. Once the board is established, the deck applies pressure through wide token generation, devastating combat triggers from Shredder, Shadow Master, and asymmetric drain effects like Vein Ripper and Exsanguinate. While the deck generates explosive mid-game momentum, it relies entirely on natural card flow rather than specific tutors. It also lacks reactive countermagic and proactive shroud or hexproof equipment, leaving K'rrik vulnerable to well-timed spot removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armaggon, Future Shark
  • 1 Baron Helmut Zemo
  • 1 Big Apple, 3 a.m.
  • 1 Black Cat, Cunning Thief
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blightbelly Rat
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Chorale of the Void
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contagion
  • 1 Crovax the Cursed
  • 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
  • 1 Dauthi Embrace
  • 1 Dauthi Slayer
  • 1 Elephant-Rat
  • 1 Engine Rat
  • 1 Entropic Battlecruiser
  • 1 Espers to Magicite
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fire Nation Salvagers
  • 1 Foggy Swamp Visions
  • 1 Foot Chopper
  • 1 Game Over
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Heraldic Banner
  • 1 Infernal Offering
  • 1 Insatiable Hemophage
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Koh, the Face Stealer
  • 1 Madame Null, Power Broker
  • 1 Midnight Snack
  • 1 Necrodominance
  • 1 Necromantic Selection
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ogre Slumlord
  • 1 Persistent Marshstalker
  • 1 Petty Larceny
  • 1 Rancid Rats
  • 1 Rat King, Pale Piper
  • 1 Rat King, Verminister
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reaper's Scythe
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sadistic Glee
  • 1 Seymour Flux
  • 1 Shadowgrange Archfiend
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sinuous Vermin
  • 1 Skull Storm
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Enervation
  • 1 Susurian Voidborn
  • 33 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 The Masamune
  • 1 Tunnel Rats
  • 1 Typhoid Rats
  • 1 Undercity Dire Rat
  • 1 Vat of Rebirth
  • 1 Vein Ripper
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Villainous Wrath
  • 1 Zero Point Ballad
  • 1 Zodiark, Umbral God