Mono Black test by Ripped-Ritual

Format: Commander

Commander: Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 71

Deck overview

This competitive Mono-Black deck helmed by Yawgmoth, Thran Physician operates as a high-velocity Aristocrats and combo engine. It leverages dense fast mana and efficient tutors to deploy early sacrifice fodder, converting expendable creatures into immense card advantage and board suppression via Yawgmoth's -1/-1 counter ability. The deck locks out opposing strategies through oppressive denial pieces like Contamination, Opposition Agent, and Orcish Bowmasters before closing the game with deterministic, same-turn infinite loops. Its primary win line combines Warren Soultrader, Gravecrawler, and a drain payoff such as Blood Artist or Marionette Apprentice, generating infinite death triggers and table-wide life drain. Bolstered by massive draw powerhouses like Ad Nauseam, Necropotence, and Bolas's Citadel, the deck achieves resilient, high-speed execution. While vulnerable to activated ability hate and anti-graveyard effects, its dense tutor package and redundant recursion ensure consistent, format-tier performance.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Contamination
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plague Belcher
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 22 Swamp
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat