main deck 3 prototype by user8003519

Format: Commander

Commander: Ayara, First of Locthwain

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black Zombie Aristocrats combo strategy commanded by Ayara, First of Locthwain. The primary game plan revolves around assembling a loop using Gravecrawler, a zero-mana sacrifice outlet such as Carrion Feeder or Ashnod's Altar, and Pitiless Plunderer to produce infinite mana, death triggers, and enter-the-battlefield triggers. Ayara, First of Locthwain or redundant drain effects like Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat translate these iterations into an immediate same-turn table kill. Fast mana rituals and efficient tutors such as Buried Alive, Demonic Tutor, and Diabolic Intent ensure the deck can reliably assemble its core pieces by turn 4. In situations where the primary graveyard line is contested, the list pivots toward an alternate two-card combo with Sanguine Bond and Exquisite Blood or sustained card advantage through The One Ring and Undead Augur.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Archenemy's Charm
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Black Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Deathgreeter
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Diregraf Colossus
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
  • 1 Graf Harvest
  • 1 Graveborn Muse
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Lazotep Reaver
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Lord of the Undead
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scourge of Nel Toth
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Shepherd of Rot
  • 1 Sidisi, Undead Vizier
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 29 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vengeful Dead
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Zombie Infestation
  • 1 Zombie Master
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat