Syr Konrad aristocrats by chickenpie393

Format: Commander

Commander: Syr Konrad, the Grim

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This mono-black aristocrats and mill deck is piloted by Syr Konrad, the Grim. It focuses on weaponizing the graveyard, creature death triggers, and incidental mill to drain the entire table simultaneously. The strategy accelerates through black rituals and low-cost rocks, assembling recursive token generators like Ophiomancer and Bitterblossom alongside free sacrifice outlets such as Ashnod's Altar and Viscera Seer. Once Syr Konrad, the Grim hits the battlefield, the deck rapidly escalates pressure. Granting Konrad infect through Phyresis, Grafted Exoskeleton, or Tainted Strike reduces the required kill threshold to just ten creature death or mill triggers. Alternatively, persist loops with Putrid Goblin and Thran Vigil, or cascading mill chains with The Master of Lake-town, provide fast deterministic wins. While the deck possesses limited stack protection, its deep suite of reanimation spells ensures exceptional engine resilience and quick recovery against removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Chainer, Dementia Master
  • 1 Chittering Witch
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dash Hopes
  • 1 Death Cultist
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Elegy Acolyte
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Feldon's Cane
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Grafted Exoskeleton
  • 1 Grasp of Darkness
  • 1 Gravelighter
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Infectious Inquiry
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Nameless Inversion
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Petrified Hamlet
  • 1 Phyresis
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sothera, the Supervoid
  • 1 Susurian Voidborn
  • 32 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Strike
  • 1 The Endstone
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 Thran Vigil
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Withering Boon
  • 1 Worthy Cost
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan