Mono-Black by anonza

Format: Commander

Commander: Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a focused Mono-Black Aristocrats and Control engine commanded by Yawgmoth, Thran Physician. The primary game plan revolves around deploying cheap, recurring sacrifice fodder such as Reassembling Skeleton, Bloodghast, and Dreadhorde Invasion during the early turns, then casting Yawgmoth on Turn 4 to convert these creatures into card advantage and targeted board control. The deck systematically suppresses opposing creature boards with -1/-1 counters and efficient spot removal while digging deep into its library. On Turns 6 to 7, it transitions into a lethal win through massive life drain and reanimation engines, leveraging Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Massacre Wurm, and Living Death. While it lacks stack interaction and fast mana tutors, its sheer draw density, asymmetric attrition pieces like Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern and Braids, Cabal Minion, and deep graveyard recursion allow it to outlast and overwhelm typical Commander pods.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Black Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Blackbloom Rogue // Blackbloom Bog
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Braids, Cabal Minion
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Cadaver Imp
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crypt Incursion
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Doom Blade
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Grave Venerations
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hymn to Tourach
  • 1 Ifnir Deadlands
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Massacre Girl, Known Killer
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mutilate
  • 1 Necromantic Selection
  • 1 Necroskitter
  • 1 Never // Return
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Persistent Constrictor
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Puppeteer Clique
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Risky Shortcut
  • 1 Shard of the Nightbringer
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skinrender
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stir Up Trouble
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 24 Swamp
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 The Dross Pits
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Vashta Nerada
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Welcome the Dead
  • 1 Wither and Bloom
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Wound Reflection
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician