Graveyard by user4049963

Format: Commander

Commander: Sheoldred, Whispering One

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This mono-black deck leverages Sheoldred, Whispering One as the top-end figurehead for a classic Reanimator and control strategy. The primary game plan focuses on stocking the graveyard in the early turns using efficient enablers like Entomb, Buried Alive, and self-mill creatures before deploying cheap reanimation spells such as Reanimate, Persist, and Victimize on Turn 4. The primary threats—notably Archon of Cruelty, Vilis, Broker of Blood, and Grave Titan—create immediate card advantage and board suppression. In the mid-to-late game, the deck transitions into hard attrition, locking down opposing creature boards with continuous edicts and board wipes like Toxic Deluge and Damnation. The table is closed out around Turn 7 via high-power evasive attacks supplemented by devastating life-drain loops using Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Kokusho, the Evening Star, and Chainer, Dementia Master.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chainer, Dementia Master
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Mutilate
  • 1 Nirkana Revenant
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Delver
  • 1 Phyrexian Obliterator
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Pox Plague
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 29 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tomb Fortress
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Worn Powerstone