Davvol's Birthday Slaughter by REGELDUDES

Format: Commander

Commander: Davvol, Evincar of Rath

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This Golgari deck transforms Davvol, Evincar of Rath into a high-velocity mana engine by pairing its enter-the-battlefield trigger with zero-mana artifact creatures and X=0 dying creatures. Whenever a free creature enters, Davvol generates {B} at the cost of 1 life. Combined with death-trigger card draw like Grim Haruspex and Dark Prophecy or cast triggers like Beast Whisperer, every zero-drop creature functions as a ritual and a cantrip. The deck chains these plays to dig through its library, using life-gain pieces like Essence Warden and Prosperous Innkeeper to offset Davvol's life loss. Once storm count and graveyard counts peak, the sequence finishes the table in a single Turn 5 turn via Tendrils of Agony or drain engines like Blood Artist and Ayara, First of Locthwain. Because it foregoes tutors, fast mana rocks, and countermagic, it operates as a dedicated glass-cannon combo deck.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Agent Venom
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blisterpod
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Celebrant
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Bogwater Lumaret
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Carnival of Souls
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Catacomb Sifter
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Dark Prophecy
  • 1 Davvol, Evincar of Rath
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathgreeter
  • 1 Dross Harvester
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Endless One
  • 1 Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Genesis Chamber
  • 1 Glimpse of Nature
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Greedy Freebooter
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Infestation Sage
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Memnite
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Nested Shambler
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 No Rest for the Wicked
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Ominous Harvest
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Marauder
  • 1 Phyrexian Walker
  • 1 Pitiless Carnage
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Postmortem Lunge
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Reprocess
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Shield Sphere
  • 1 Shifting Wall
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Abomination
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Susurian Voidborn
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Tendrils of Agony
  • 1 Timeline Culler
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Ugin's Conjurant
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Virulent Emissary
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery