drago nero by user3181729

Format: Commander

Commander: Kokusho, the Evening Star

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black aristocrats and reanimator engine commanded by Kokusho, the Evening Star. The primary game plan accelerates mana using black rituals, cost reducers, and Swamp-doubling lands like Cabal Coffers and Crypt Ghast to deploy Kokusho alongside repeatable sacrifice and recursion outlets. Once Kokusho is on the board, the deck repeatedly sacrifices and reanimates the Dragon Spirit through spells such as Chthonian Nightmare, Strands of Night, and Saw in Half. Each death trigger drains 5 life from every opponent and grants 15 life, creating massive 60-point life swings that destabilize the table. Secondary lines leverage Gray Merchant of Asphodel for explosive devotion drains and Razaketh, the Foulblooded or Vilis, Broker of Blood for card advantage. Interaction focuses on creature suppression via Grave Pact and efficient removal like Deadly Rollick and Snuff Out. The deck wins by grinding opponent life totals to zero within two turn cycles of sustained recursion.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Activated Sleeper
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blade of Selves
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Crawlspace
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Extraplanar Lens
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 Hell's Caretaker
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Illuminor Szeras
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Lake of the Dead
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nim Deathmantle
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Resurrection Orb
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Silent Arbiter
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soldevi Adnate
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Strands of Night
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 22 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will