Mono Black (Sam Z) by GandalfTheBleu

Format: Commander

Commander: K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth deck combines life-payment acceleration, black-mana doublers, creature recursion, and a compact artifact engine. Its clearest supported win is Basalt Monolith plus Rings of Brighthearth for infinite colorless mana, followed by Staff of Domination for unlimited card draw and Aetherflux Reservoir for the table kill. The line is powerful once assembled, but it needs three engine cards, a payoff, and substantial deployment mana. Tutors such as Beseech the Mirror and Dark Petition improve access without reliably supplying every missing role at once. K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth enables explosive turns with Dark Ritual, Cabal Ritual, Culling the Weak, and life payment, while Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Exsanguinate, and Torment of Hailfire provide alternative payoffs. The deck has limited protection and only narrow interaction, so its main weakness is surviving long enough to assemble the artifact line.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ashnod's Intervention
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Blood Tribute
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Caged Sun
  • 1 Carnival of Souls
  • 1 Cemetery Reaper
  • 1 Chainer, Dementia Master
  • 1 Corpse Dance
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Petition
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dread Presence
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Font of Agonies
  • 1 Forsaken Monument
  • 1 Gauntlet of Power
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Helm of Awakening
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Insidious Dreams
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lich's Mastery
  • 1 Lord of the Undead
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Mortuary
  • 1 Necrotic Ooze
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plague of Vermin
  • 1 Platinum Angel
  • 1 Plunge into Darkness
  • 1 Pontiff of Blight
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rings of Brighthearth
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Skirge Familiar
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 21 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Undead Warchief
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Zombify