Mono Black Lifegain by Kingler

Format: Commander

Commander: Moseo, Vein's New Dean

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

Moseo, Vein's New Dean leads a synergistic mono-black midrange deck that intertwines lifegain triggers with end-step graveyard reanimation. The deck aims to deploy early lifegain enablers and self-mill creatures to establish a functioning engine by Turn 4. Once Moseo is online, any life gained during the turn translates into free creature recursion scaled to the life total gained. Mid-game turns focus on pivoting this recursive engine into devastating life-swing anchors such as Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Defiling Daemogoth, and Vein Ripper. These threats drain opponents across the board while generating massive bursts of lifegain to unlock reanimation for the largest creatures in the graveyard. The strategy uses incidental sacrifice outlets and repeatable edict creatures like Witch of the Moors to grind down opposing boards before closing the game around Turn 8 through combined aerial combat and unblockable drain triggers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Duneyard
  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend's Vessel
  • 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
  • 1 Avishkar Raceway
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Basilica Screecher
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Aerialist
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Commune with Evil
  • 1 Consuming Corruption
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dread Presence
  • 1 Eater of Virtue
  • 1 Elegy Acolyte
  • 1 Eradicator Valkyrie
  • 1 Essence Pulse
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Henrika Domnathi // Henrika, Infernal Seer
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Leech Collector // Bloodletting
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Midnight Snack
  • 1 Mire Triton
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Muraganda Raceway
  • 1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
  • 1 Nighthawk Scavenger
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Pontiff of Blight
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Reckoner's Bargain
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Shinra Reinforcements
  • 1 Skeleton Crew
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 24 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 The Haunt of Hightower
  • 1 The Warring Triad
  • 1 Thrull Parasite
  • 1 Titan Hunter
  • 1 Tivash, Gloom Summoner
  • 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Vein Ripper
  • 1 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Vraan, Executioner Thane
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Witch of the Moors