K'rrik Swaps (Better Reanimate theme) by xDrEvil

Format: Commander

Commander: K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a mono-black life-as-resource midrange reanimator deck helmed by K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth. The core plan uses K'rrik's ability to pay life instead of black mana to slam expensive demons, Praetors, and drain engines ahead of curve, then convert life payments and devotion into table-wide life loss. Primary wins come from oversized Exsanguinate and Gray Merchant of Asphodel drains (often doubled by Bloodletter of Aclazotz), Repay in Kind after self-drain, and reanimating haymakers such as Vilis, Broker of Blood, Razaketh, the Foulblooded, Archon of Cruelty, and Valgavoth, Terror Eater. A dense reanimation suite (Reanimate, Animate Dead, Buried Alive, Living Death, Sheoldred, Whispering One) lets the deck cheat its high curve. Secondary paths include Bolas's Citadel top-deck casting and large combat with lifelink threats. The deck plays as a grindy, life-total manipulator that turns its own life total into mana, cards, and inevitability.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
• 1 Air Shoes
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archenemy's Charm
• 1 Archon of Cruelty
• 1 Asmodeus the Archfiend
• 1 Balamb Garden
• 1 Balthor the Defiled
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Breach the Multiverse
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Cabal Coffers
• 1 Cabal Stronghold
• 1 Cast-Off Consort
• 1 Castle Locthwain
• 1 Commander's Plate
• 1 Crypt Ghast
• 1 Culling the Weak
• 1 Dance of the Dead
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Dictate of Erebos
• 1 Disciple of Bolas
• 1 Dismember
• 1 Doom Whisperer
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
• 1 Grave Titan
• 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
• 1 Heartless Summoning
• 1 Imp's Mischief
• 1 Jet Medallion
• 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
• 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
• 1 Kefka's Tower
• 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Lord of the Void
• 1 Maha, Its Feathers Night
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Massacre Wurm
• 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1 Necrologia
• 1 Necropotence
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Nirkana Revenant
• 1 Persist
• 1 Phyrexian Fleshgorger
• 1 Phyrexian Obliterator
• 1 Phyrexian Tower
• 1 Qarsi Revenant
• 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Repay in Kind
• 1 Saw in Half
• 1 Shard of the Nightbringer
• 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1 Sire of Seven Deaths
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sudden Spoiling
• 25 Swamp
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1 The Soul Stone
• 1 Unstoppable Slasher
• 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
• 1 War Room
• 1 Widow-Making Infiltrator
• 1 Withering Torment