Ardyn by user1796512

Format: Commander

Commander: Ardyn, the Usurper

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Ardyn, the Usurper turns any graveyard into an army: each combat he exiles a creature card and makes a 5/5 Demon token with haste, menace, and lifelink. The deck fills graveyards with self-mill, then uses Ardyn and a heavy reanimation package to overwhelm opponents with Demons. Syr Konrad, the Grim is a hidden commander, turning every mill, death, and graveyard exile into damage. Secondary paths include Demon-tribal drain from Gray Merchant, Defiling Daemogoth, and Dreadhound, plus the Liliana's Contract alternate win. K'rrik and mana rocks accelerate the high curve. The deck is a midrange graveyard engine that can also remove one opponent with the Jaws of Defeat + Hyalopterous Lemure + Overkill interaction, but its main route is combat plus life-drain.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abyssal Harvester
  • 1 Arbiter of Woe
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Archfiend of Sorrows
  • 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
  • 1 Blade of the Oni
  • 1 Bloodgift Demon
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bringer of the Last Gift
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Consuming Corruption
  • 1 Crabomination
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Demonic Covenant
  • 1 Demonic Embrace
  • 1 Desecration Demon
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreadhound
  • 1 Duress
  • 1 Embodiment of Agonies
  • 1 Evil Reawakened
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Gloom
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Harvester of Souls
  • 1 Hyalopterous Lemure
  • 1 Indulgent Tormentor
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jaws of Defeat
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Kothophed, Soul Hoarder
  • 1 Liliana's Contract
  • 1 Madame Null, Power Broker
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Overseer of the Damned
  • 1 Promise of Power
  • 1 Rakshasa Debaser
  • 1 Reaper from the Abyss
  • 1 Resentful Revelation
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Sephiroth's Intervention
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 31 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Speed Demon
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Mutilator
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast
  • 1 Zombify