Be'lakor & Gyruda by Nebraska_Beef

Format: Commander

Commander: Be'lakor, the Dark Master

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Demon tribal strategy commanded by Be'lakor, the Dark Master with Gyruda, Doom of Depths as a companion. It leverages an even-costed mana curve packed with two-mana ramp rocks to accelerate into Be'lakor by Turn 5. Once Be'lakor is on the battlefield, every Demon that enters burns any target equal to its power while refilling the hand. The deck compounds this burn through token cloners like Spark Double, Molten Echoes, and Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink, alongside devastating life-loss multipliers like Bloodletter of Aclazotz and Archfiend of Despair. If opponents remove key threats, a rich package of low-cost reanimation spells brings Demons directly back into play to re-trigger burn. It presents a resilient, high-damage midgame clock that closes games quickly once its commander is established.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Auton Soldier
  • 1 Be'lakor, the Dark Master
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blood Speaker
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodthirster
  • 1 Burning-Rune Demon
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Deadeye Navigator
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Demonlord Belzenlok
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disdainful Stroke
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dream Devourer
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extinction Event
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Haunting Voyage
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Molten Echoes
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
  • 1 Orcus, Prince of Undeath
  • 1 Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Planar Incision
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Rakdos, Patron of Chaos
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rot-Curse Rakshasa
  • 1 Sakashima the Impostor
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sower of Discord
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sundial of the Infinite
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Wound Reflection