50 Shades of Decay by Owler

Format: Commander

Commander: The Mycotyrant

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Golgari self-mill aristocrats deck helmed by The Mycotyrant. The plan is to dump permanent cards into the graveyard (descend), mint Fungus tokens off the commander's end-step trigger, and convert that board into life-drain and combat pressure. Milling engines (Stitcher's Supplier, Ripples of Undeath, Underrealm Lich, dredge pieces) fuel both the descend count and a dense reanimation suite (Victimize, Dread Return, Squirming Emergence, Colossal Grave-Reaver). Secondary win paths include classic aristocrats drains (Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Ayara, First of Locthwain, Mirkwood Bats, Syr Konrad, the Grim), Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord activations, and go-wide Saproling/Fungus swarms from Mycoloth and Insidious Roots. There are no infinite combo lines; the deck wins through attrition, recursion, and overwhelming board presence in the mid-to-late game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blossoming Tortoise
  • 1 Broodheart Engine
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Circle of the Land Druid
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crop Sigil
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Deadly Brew
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathcap Marionette
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Thug
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Immoral Bargain
  • 1 Insidious Fungus
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Kishla Village
  • 1 Krav, the Unredeemed
  • 1 Lasyd Prowler
  • 2 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lluwen, Imperfect Naturalist
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Molt Tender
  • 1 Mycoloth
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overwhelming Remorse
  • 1 Perpetual Timepiece
  • 1 Pile On
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Return of the Mole Man
  • 1 Rick Jones, Destined Sidekick
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Scavenger's Talent
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sludge Titan
  • 1 Snarling Gorehound
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Squirming Emergence
  • 1 Stinkweed Imp
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Surveillance Room
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Terror Tide
  • 1 The Mycotyrant
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Undead Butler
  • 1 Undercity Informer
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Underrealm Lich
  • 1 Vicious Rivalry
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat