$400 Budget B3 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician by VegardTveitan

Format: Commander

Commander: Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a focused mono-black Aristocrats combo engine commanded by Yawgmoth, Thran Physician. The game plan revolves around deploying cheap, recurring creatures and undying threats during the opening turns, casting Yawgmoth on Turn 4, and utilizing his sacrifice ability to suppress opposing creatures while drawing heavily through the deck. On Turn 5, the deck transitions into a lethal combo state by assembling Yawgmoth alongside two undying creatures (such as Butcher Ghoul and Geralf's Messenger) and a life-draining aristocrat payoff like Blood Artist or Zulaport Cutthroat. By alternating sacrifices, Yawgmoth places -1/-1 counters on the returning undying creatures to negate their +1/+1 counters, sustaining a continuous loop that drains each opponent for 40 life in a single turn. The deck is resilient against creature-heavy strategies but remains vulnerable to targeted graveyard hate, commander removal, and noncreature combo decks.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Butcher Ghoul
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Geralf's Messenger
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Hancock, Ghoulish Mayor
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Nest of Scarabs
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shoot the Sheriff
  • 1 Sifter of Skulls
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 32 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat