Big Black Deck 😈 by user7222738

Format: Commander

Commander: Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black aristocrats build led by Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist. The strategy focuses on deploying low-power creatures and token generators, then converting their deaths into incremental life-drain triggers and resource advantages. Arnyn specifically rewards sacrificing or trading creatures with power or toughness 1 or less by draining target opponents for 2 life and buffering your own total. Redundant drain permanents like Bastion of Remembrance, Funeral Room // Awakening Hall, and Mirkwood Bats compound this pressure across the entire table. Combat threats such as Shredder, Shadow Master accelerate life total reduction against defensive opponents. While the deck boasts strong independent backup win conditions and high synergy among its death triggers, its thin land count and minimal stack protection leave it vulnerable to mana stalls and exile-based board wipes. You win by outlasting opponents through steady life swings and board attrition.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Agent Venom
  • 1 Agents of HYDRA
  • 1 Alley Assailant
  • 1 Along the Crooked Way
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Big Apple, 3 a.m.
  • 1 Big Mother Mouser
  • 1 Black Knight
  • 1 Blade of the Bloodchief
  • 1 Bog Rats
  • 1 Burglar Rat
  • 1 Clot Sliver
  • 1 Crown of Gondor
  • 1 Crude Bent Blade
  • 1 Death Cloud
  • 1 Dimension X Pizzasaur
  • 1 Disrupting Scepter
  • 1 Drain Life
  • 1 End of the Hunt
  • 1 Exploding Barrel
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Fear
  • 1 Foot Chopper
  • 1 Forum Necroscribe
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Game Over
  • 1 HYDRA Infiltration
  • 1 High-Society Hunter
  • 1 Howl from Beyond
  • 1 Infestation Sage
  • 1 Kingpin's Enforcers
  • 1 Lost Soul
  • 1 Melancholic Poet
  • 1 Midnight Snack
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Necrite
  • 1 Ninja of the Hand
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Paralyze
  • 1 Paramecia Coloniex
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Poisoner's Apprentice
  • 1 Pull from the Grave
  • 1 Rage into the Valley
  • 1 Raise Dead
  • 1 Rat King, Pale Piper
  • 1 Rat King, Verminister
  • 1 Reverent Howl
  • 1 Roadkill Rodney
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Send in the Pest
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Sibsig Host
  • 1 Snarling Gorehound
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul-Shackled Zombie
  • 1 Spider-Bot
  • 1 Splinter, the Mentor
  • 1 Squirrelanoids
  • 1 Stir Up Trouble
  • 1 Sultai Emissary
  • 26 Swamp
  • 1 Swift Demise
  • 1 Terror
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Throne of the High City
  • 1 Tragedy Feaster
  • 1 Unholy Strength
  • 1 Vampire Bats
  • 1 Vampire Gourmand
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Wander Off