Master of the Lake by limitedroark

Format: Commander

Commander: The Master of Lake-town

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power mono-black aristocrats and combo list led by The Master of Lake-town. The commander acts as an incidental mill engine and burst draw outlet when sacrificed. The primary strategy focuses on assembling infinite life drain loops, most notably combining Exquisite Blood or Bloodthirsty Conqueror with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose or Sanguine Bond. Secondary win conditions include the Bloodchief Ascension plus Mindcrank mill-drain loop and the Doctor Doom, Unrivaled plus Demonic Consultation instant win. Supported by efficient black tutors, potent reanimation spells, and aggressive creature control tools like Grave Pact and Deadly Rollick, the deck controls opposing boards while assembling a sudden, deterministic same-turn table kill around Turn 5.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Basilica Screecher
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Filth
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Merchant of Venom
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Nighthawk Scavenger
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 32 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Withering Boon
  • 1 Wound Reflection
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan