Monster is a Relative Term by user5880763

Format: Commander

Commander: Henry Wu, InGen Geneticist

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Sultai Aristocrats combo strategy commanded by Henry Wu, InGen Geneticist. The primary objective is to assemble a deterministic life-drain loop utilizing Gravecrawler, a repeatable sacrifice outlet such as Phyrexian Altar or Warren Soultrader, and an Aristocrats payoff like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, or Bastion of Remembrance. Early turns focus on accelerating mana with low-cost ramp spells and tutoring for missing pieces. Henry Wu, InGen Geneticist enhances the mid-game by granting exploit to Human creatures, converting non-Human fodder into immediate card advantage and Treasure mana. The deck features a robust interaction suite with efficient counterspells and removal to disrupt opponents and protect its combo turn. If primary lines are interrupted, dense recursion cards like Reanimate and Victimize allow rapid recovery, while broad Zombie token generation and lords provide a resilient secondary combat path.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cemetery Reaper
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Diregraf Captain
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Endless Ranks of the Dead
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Henry Wu, InGen Geneticist
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Honest Rutstein
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Profaner of the Dead
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sidisi, Undead Vizier
  • 1 Skull Skaab
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zagoth Triome
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat