Syr Konrad aristocrats by chickenpie393

Format: Commander

Commander: Syr Konrad, the Grim

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This mono-black aristocrats deck weaponizes the graveyard and creature attrition under Syr Konrad, the Grim. The game plan revolves around deploying low-cost sacrifice outlets and recurring creature fodder before resolving the commander on Turn 4. Once Konrad hits the board, any creature dying, milling into a graveyard, or leaving the graveyard deals one damage to each opponent. The deck accelerates this clock through burst mill activations, aristocrat payoffs like Blood Artist and Bastion of Remembrance, and infect enablers like Phyresis and Grafted Exoskeleton that lower the elimination threshold to ten triggers per player. Strong black engines including Necropotence, Bolas's Citadel, and K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth provide card draw and mana velocity. While the list lacks blue countermagic and instant-speed artifact interaction, it boasts deep reanimation redundancy to recover quickly from board wipes. Opponents face relentless, unavoidable life loss from every zone transition.

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 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 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 Pox
  • 1 Pox Plague
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 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 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 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