Black Mould (downgraded from YaKingJ) by DoomedQuaker

Format: Commander

Commander: The Mycotyrant

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Golgari graveyard deck led by The Mycotyrant. Its game plan centers on turning self-mill and dredge into board presence and life loss. By putting permanent cards into the graveyard, the deck triggers the descend mechanic to produce a swarm of 1/1 Fungus tokens every end step while growing The Mycotyrant into a massive trampling threat. The deck converts these tokens into card advantage via Skullclamp, ramp via land recursion, and direct damage through aristocrat drain pieces like Mirkwood Bats, Marionette Apprentice, Blood Artist, and Ayara, First of Locthwain. It achieves reliable engine assembly on turn 4 and initiates critical pressure by turn 5. While the deck lacks fast zero-mana acceleration and direct tutors, its deep self-mill engines and recursive spells provide exceptional card velocity and resilience against traditional removal, closing games by turn 7 through combined combat damage and mass life drain.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creeping Renaissance
  • 1 Crystal Vein
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dredger's Insight
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Eye Collector
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Grave-Troll
  • 1 Golgari Thug
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Hidden Hideout
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Fungus
  • 1 Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity
  • 1 Kenrith's Transformation
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana the Repentant
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Malevolent Rumble
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Out of the Tombs
  • 1 Pendelhaven
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Return of the Mole Man
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Shambling Shell
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Song of the Dryads
  • 1 Stinkweed Imp
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Summon: Titan
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Mycotyrant
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Thunderfoot Baloth
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trespasser il-Vec
  • 1 Trystan, Callous Cultivator // Trystan, Penitent Culler
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Will of the Sultai
  • 1 Witch of the Moors
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery