Horrors and Nightmares by skyrose1220

Format: Commander

Commander: Umbris, Fear Manifest

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Umbris is the deck's engine and finisher: each Horror/Nightmare ETB exiles cards from one chosen opponent's library, making Umbris larger. The primary line is to land Umbris early, chain cheap and recursive Horror/Nightmare triggers (Fear of Impostors, Clammy Prowler, Hullbreaker Horror, Essence Flux, Deadeye Navigator), then finish with commander damage. Secondary paths are a zombie/spirit token shell using Field of the Dead, Gisa's Bidding, Ghoulish Procession, and Rise from the Tides, plus Blood Artist drain. Countermagic and bounce keep the board clear. There is no hidden commander; the 99 is built to support Umbris rather than any other legendary.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abhorrent Oculus
  • 1 Annul
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archghoul of Thraben
  • 1 Battleground Geist
  • 1 Bladestitched Skaab
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Butcher Ghoul
  • 1 Cackling Counterpart
  • 1 Clammy Prowler
  • 1 Compelling Deterrence
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crawl from the Cellar
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadeye Navigator
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Delver of Secrets // Insectile Aberration
  • 1 Demonmail Hauberk
  • 1 Desperate Farmer // Depraved Harvester
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Ecstatic Awakener // Awoken Demon
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fear of Falling
  • 1 Fear of Impostors
  • 1 Fear of the Dark
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Forbidden Alchemy
  • 1 Geistlight Snare
  • 1 Ghoulish Procession
  • 1 Gisa's Bidding
  • 1 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
  • 1 Gurmag Rakshasa
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Insatiable Skittermaw
  • 16 Island
  • 1 Makeshift Mauler
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Miasma Demon
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Morkrut Banshee
  • 1 Nebelgast Herald
  • 1 Perigee Beckoner
  • 1 Rise from the Tides
  • 1 Sever the Bloodline
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silent Departure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Separator
  • 1 Soulcipher Board // Cipherbound Spirit
  • 1 Spectral Snatcher
  • 1 Spellgyre
  • 1 Spontaneous Mutation
  • 1 Stinging Cave Crawler
  • 1 Stitched Mangler
  • 1 Summary Dismissal
  • 16 Swamp
  • 1 Temporal Mastery
  • 1 Thing in the Ice // Awoken Horror
  • 1 Think Twice
  • 1 Tower Geist
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Traveler's Amulet
  • 1 Uchbenbak, the Great Mistake
  • 1 Umbris, Fear Manifest
  • 1 Vile Mutilator
  • 1 Village Rites