syr konrad, the grim by PaulDD

Format: Commander

Commander: Syr Konrad, the Grim

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a mono-black graveyard-drain deck helmed by Syr Konrad, the Grim, built to weaponize every creature that dies or touches a graveyard. The primary plan is to fill graveyards - both the deck's own and opponents' - and convert each creature card that enters one into a point of damage to every opponent via Syr Konrad's trigger. The fastest and most important win is the Mindcrank loop: once Syr Konrad is on the battlefield, any life loss mills cards, and every creature card milled pings again, creating an infinite mill-and-drain chain. Bloodchief Ascension offers a second, commander-independent loop with Mindcrank. Around this, the deck runs a deep reanimation package (Reanimate, Animate Dead, Living Death, Patriarch's Bidding) to keep creatures cycling into the graveyard, a Knights sub-theme with Haakon, Stromgald Scourge, and a dense tutor suite to assemble the combo. Combat and incremental drain are fallback paths.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ayara's Oathsworn
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Belle of the Brawl
• 1 Blacklance Paragon
• 1 Bloodchief Ascension
• 1 Bloodcrazed Paladin
• 1 Bloodsworn Squire // Bloodsworn Knight
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Cavalier of Night
• 1 Crippling Fear
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Defense Grid
• 1 Defile
• 1 Demonic Consultation
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Dread Return
• 1 Engineered Explosives
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fell Horseman // Deathly Ride
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Final Parting
• 1 Forsworn Paladin
• 1 Foulmire Knight // Profane Insight
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
• 1 Haunting Voyage
• 1 Icon of Ancestry
• 1 Imperial Seal
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Josu Vess, Lich Knight
• 1 Knight of Malice
• 1 Knight of the Ebon Legion
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Liliana's Standard Bearer
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Locthwain Lancer
• 1 Midnight Reaper
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Mindcrank
• 1 Mortuary Mire
• 1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
• 1 Mutilate
• 1 Necromancy
• 1 Necropotence
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Order of Midnight // Alter Fate
• 1 Patriarch's Bidding
• 1 Ratchet Bomb
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Sign in Blood
• 1 Smitten Swordmaster // Curry Favor
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Songs of the Damned
• 1 Spymaster's Vault
• 1 Stromgald Cabal
• 30 Swamp
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Tainted Pact
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 Unearth
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Witch's Cottage
• 1 Withering Torment