Black by user5598700

Format: Commander

Commander: Braids, Arisen Nightmare

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Braids, Arisen Nightmare pilots a mono-black aristocrats engine. The primary plan is to generate token and recursive creatures, sacrifice them, and convert every death into life loss through Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Bastion, Vraan, and Syr Konrad. Braids herself is the repeatable end-step enforcer: sacrificing at end step forces opponents to sacrifice or pays 2 life and draws you a card. Secondary paths are Living Death mass-reanimation and Gray Merchant/Kokusho devotion drains. A narrow but real infinite loop exists with Pawn of Ulamog, Pitiless Plunderer, Reassembling Skeleton, and a free sacrifice outlet. There is no hidden commander; Ayara and Yawgmoth act as lieutenant engines.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Attrition
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Cult Conscript
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drossforge Bridge
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hive of the Eye Tyrant
  • 1 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Mycosynth Wellspring
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Persistent Specimen
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Servo Schematic
  • 1 Sifter of Skulls
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawning Pit
  • 18 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treacherous Blessing
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vraan, Executioner Thane
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat