krikk by RareLuke

Format: Commander

Commander: K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 70

Deck overview

This deck is a quintessential cEDH mono-black turbo combo deck led by K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth. The strategy leverages K'rrik's ability to pay life in place of black mana, transforming the player's life buffer into overwhelming mana velocity. Supported by premier fast mana artifacts and rituals, the deck consistently presents game-ending lines on Turn 2. The primary victory route utilizes Buried Alive or Entomb to put Necrotic Ooze, Asmodeus the Archfiend, and Skirge Familiar into the graveyard. Necrotic Ooze inherits Asmodeus's activated draw ability without its static replacement drawback, allowing the pilot to draw the entire library and generate infinite black mana. The deck then loops Gray Merchant of Asphodel using Saw in Half and Corpse Dance to eliminate all opponents simultaneously. Alternate powerhouses such as Peer into the Abyss, Vilis, Broker of Blood, and Hoarding Broodlord provide robust redundancy, while Vexing Bauble shields combo execution from free interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asmodeus the Archfiend
  • 1 Balthor the Defiled
  • 1 Baron Helmut Zemo
  • 1 Bazaar of Baghdad
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Bile Blight
  • 1 Blinkmoth Nexus
  • 1 Blood Celebrant
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Corpse Dance
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cut Down
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Fleshwrither
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Grasp of Darkness
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Inkmoth Nexus
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lake of the Dead
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mishra's Factory
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mutavault
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Necrotic Ooze
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Pestilence
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Skirge Familiar
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 Ulcerate
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will