New Untitled Deck by Heinu

Format: Commander

Commander: Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest commands a Golgari Aristocrats deck that weaponizes sacrifice triggers into massive board-wide +1/+1 counters and oppressive board control. The deck establishes early mana acceleration and low-cost sacrifice outlets before casting Mazirek on Turn 4. Once Mazirek is online, every sacrifice—from recurring creatures like Reassembling Skeleton, token generators like Awakening Zone, or fetchlands—permanently strengthens your entire army. Asymmetric attrition cards such as Grave Pact, Dictate of Erebos, and Savra, Queen of the Golgari strip opposing creatures whenever you sacrifice fodder, leaving opponents unable to maintain blockers. Drain effects like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Mirkwood Bats convert death triggers into direct life loss, while Skullclamp and Smothering Abomination sustain card advantage. The deck closes games around Turn 8 through a combination of lethal combat swings and aristocrat life drain, overwhelming tables with compounding power and persistent creature denial.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Broken Bond
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Casualties of War
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Darksteel Plate
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Farhaven Elf
  • 1 Final Act
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Golgari Charm
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grismold, the Dreadsower
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Krosan Grip
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Merchant of Venom
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Poison-Tip Archer
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ravenous Squirrel
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Savra, Queen of the Golgari
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Abomination
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 17 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat