Braids by IlGheppioXXV

Format: Commander

Commander: Braids, Arisen Nightmare

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 71

Deck overview

This mono-black deck leverages Braids, Arisen Nightmare in the command zone to generate early card advantage and apply asymmetric attrition against opposing boards. Fueled by efficient black rituals, fast mana artifacts, and deep tutors, the deck smoothly transitions from early board suppression into game-ending combo lines. Its primary win condition pairs Bloodthirsty Conqueror or Exquisite Blood with Starscape Cleric, initiating a self-sustaining loop of life gain and opponent life loss that kills the entire table in a single turn. Alternative lines include storming off with Peer into the Abyss or Bolas's Citadel into a massive Torment of Hailfire. The list also deploys powerful stax pieces like Opposition Agent and Dauthi Voidwalker to disrupt opponent game plans, alongside Tergrid, God of Fright to capitalize on forced sacrifices.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Conqueror's Flail
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deep-Cavern Bat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Helm of Obedience
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Leyline of the Void
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Obliterator
  • 1 Rain of Filth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skirge Familiar
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 21 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will