Kuon Control by user6925696

Format: Commander

Commander: Kuon, Ogre Ascendant // Kuon's Essence

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black stax and group slug control deck commanded by Kuon, Ogre Ascendant // Kuon's Essence. The primary game plan focuses on casting Kuon on turn 3 and immediately flipping him into Kuon's Essence on turn 4 using an edict creature such as Fleshbag Marauder or Accursed Marauder. Once transformed, Kuon's Essence forces every player to sacrifice a creature during each upkeep, severely suppressing opposing creature boards. The deck reinforces this lock with punishing permanents like Tainted Aether, Lethal Vapors, and Night of Souls' Betrayal. As the game progresses, it deploys group slug enchantments such as Painful Quandary, Bloodchief Ascension, and Polluted Bonds to drain opponents of life and cards. Big-mana spells like Exsanguinate, Rise of the Dark Realms, or an alternate win with Revel in Riches close out the match around turn 9.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Caged Sun
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Cunning Rhetoric
  • 1 Dark Suspicions
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Demon's Disciple
  • 1 Dingus Staff
  • 1 Endless Atlas
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Extraplanar Lens
  • 1 Eye of Nidhogg
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Fraying Omnipotence
  • 1 Gaius van Baelsar
  • 1 Gravelighter
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Greed
  • 1 Hive of the Eye Tyrant
  • 1 Kuon, Ogre Ascendant // Kuon's Essence
  • 1 Laser Screwdriver
  • 1 Lethal Vapors
  • 1 Liability
  • 1 Liliana of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Lithoform Engine
  • 1 Meathook Massacre II
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Mimic Vat
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Night of Souls' Betrayal
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Nyx Lotus
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Polluted Bonds
  • 1 Protection Racket
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Revenge of Ravens
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rush of Dread
  • 1 Shadows of the Past
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 33 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spreading Plague
  • 1 Tainted Aether
  • 1 Tainted Remedy
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher
  • 1 Underworld Connections
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Warlock Class
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Witch's Cottage