mono by user7018983

Format: Commander

Commander: Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black aristocrats and attrition control engine commanded by Yawgmoth, Thran Physician. The primary strategy focuses on deploying low-cost, recurring creatures and token generators such as Ophiomancer, Forsaken Miner, and Nested Shambler to feed Yawgmoth's sacrifice ability. By paying life and sacrificing creatures, the deck draws cards and places -1/-1 counters on opposing threats at instant speed. In the mid game, the deck establishes board dominance through asymmetric control pieces like Maha, Its Feathers Night, which reduces all opposing creatures to 1 toughness, turning Yawgmoth's counters into guaranteed creature removal. The deck closes games using aristocrat drain engines like Zulaport Cutthroat, Syr Konrad, the Grim, and Gray Merchant of Asphodel, amplified by Drivnod, Carnage Dominus and mass reanimation spells like Living Death. It offers high card velocity, resilient graveyard recursion, and crushing board control.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Al Bhed Salvagers
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Braids, Cabal Minion
  • 1 Come Back Wrong
  • 1 Consuming Corruption
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Emperor of Bones
  • 1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fain, the Broker
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Ghoulcaller's Chant
  • 1 Ghoulish Procession
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grimoire of the Dead
  • 1 Hidden Necropolis
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lolth, Spider Queen
  • 1 M.O.D.O.K., Evil Intellect
  • 1 Maha, Its Feathers Night
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Master of Dark Rites
  • 1 Masterful Flourish
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Necroskitter
  • 1 Necrosynthesis
  • 1 Nested Shambler
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
  • 1 Persistent Specimen
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Phyrexian Vivisector
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Professor's Warning
  • 1 Radiant Fountain
  • 1 Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reckoner's Bargain
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rise of the Dread Marn
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sinister Starfish
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Staff of the Death Magus
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 26 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Thanos, Death's Consort
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Venerated Stormsinger
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vindictive Vampire
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warteye Witch
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat