Aristocrats attempt by user8959083

Format: Commander

Commander: Ayara, First of Locthwain

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This mono-black aristocrats deck is helmed by Ayara, First of Lochtwain, turning every black creature that enters the battlefield into a source of life drain and card draw. The primary game plan is to establish a repeatable sacrifice loop - most notably using Gravecrawler with a sac outlet and any other Zombie - and then convert that loop into infinite life loss through Ayara's own trigger, Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, or Mirkwood Bats. The deck leans heavily on the graveyard: cheap reanimation spells like Animate Dead and Victimize bring back key pieces, while self-recurring threats such as Bloodghast and Nether Traitor provide consistent board presence. A secondary plan is to amass a wide board of tokens (Bitterblossom, Ophiomancer) and finish with a massive Gray Merchant of Asphodel or a storm-like activation of Plague of Vermin. The commander both accelerates the drain and functions as a repeatable draw engine, making her a central pivot that the deck can still function without, but not at full capacity.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1 Beseech the Queen
• 1 Bitter Triumph
• 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
• 1 Bitterblossom
• 1 Blasphemous Edict
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Bloodghast
• 1 Bloodsoaked Champion
• 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Butcher Ghoul
• 1 Case of the Stashed Skeleton
• 1 Castle Locthwain
• 1 Chittering Witch
• 1 Crypt Rats
• 1 Crypt of Agadeem
• 1 Culling the Weak
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Defile
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Dockside Chef
• 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Forsaken Miner
• 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
• 1 Gravecrawler
• 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1 Grim Haruspex
• 1 High Market
• 1 Imp's Mischief
• 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
• 1 Jet Medallion
• 1 Lord Skitter, Sewer King
• 1 Merciless Executioner
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 1 Mortuary Mire
• 1 Nested Shambler
• 1 Nether Traitor
• 1 Ophiomancer
• 1 Pawn of Ulamog
• 1 Pitiless Plunderer
• 1 Plague of Vermin
• 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1 Putrid Goblin
• 1 Reassembling Skeleton
• 1 Saw in Half
• 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
• 1 Shredder's Technique
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soldevi Adnate
• 1 Spymaster's Vault
• 27 Swamp
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Tragic Slip
• 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
• 1 Unearth
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Warren Soultrader
• 1 Wishclaw Talisman
• 1 Witch of the Moors
• 1 Witch's Cottage
• 1 Withering Torment
• 1 Woe Strider
• 1 Wriggling Grub
• 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat