Mono Black by Castro407

Format: Commander

Commander: Vraan, Executioner Thane

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This mono-black aristocrats deck is commanded by Vraan, Executioner Thane, focusing on steady life-drain attrition, creature sacrifice, and graveyard recursion. The strategy establishes early board presence with recursive fodder like Bloodghast and Fear of Lost Teeth, leveraging sac outlets such as Umbral Collar Zealot to trigger early life swings. In the mid-game, powerful enablers and multipliers like Vein Ripper, Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Drivnod, Carnage Dominus, and Enduring Tenacity convert every death and draw into punishing life loss across the table. Universal tutors including Vampiric Tutor, Imperial Seal, and Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor ensure dependable access to key payoffs or removal. The deck controls opposing creature development with an extensive suite of spot removal and board wipes like Massacre Wurm, eventually closing out games around Turn 9 through compounded drain triggers and a lethal Exsanguinate. While highly resilient to single-target removal and wipes, the deck lacks stack interaction and artifact/enchantment removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abyssal Harvester
  • 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
  • 1 Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist
  • 1 Back for Seconds
  • 1 Bilbo's Deadly Slice
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blistergrub
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bone Picker
  • 1 Chain Assassination
  • 1 Chupacabra Echo
  • 1 Come Back Wrong
  • 1 Driver of the Dead
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Dutiful Attendant
  • 1 Embrace Oblivion
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Evil Reawakened
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Faceless Butcher
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Fear of Lost Teeth
  • 1 Final Vengeance
  • 1 Foolish Fate
  • 1 Fume Spitter
  • 1 Gollum the Abandoned
  • 1 Grief
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Hell's Caretaker
  • 1 High-Society Hunter
  • 1 Hunted Bonebrute
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Kalastria Highborn
  • 1 Kin-Tree Nurturer
  • 1 Lamentation
  • 1 Malboro
  • 1 Massacre Girl, Most Wanted
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Masterful Flourish
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Netherborn Phalanx
  • 1 Nothic
  • 1 Phyrexian Obliterator
  • 1 Poisoner's Apprentice
  • 1 Postmortem Professor
  • 1 Pull from the Grave
  • 1 Qarsi Sadist
  • 1 Rabid Attack
  • 1 Restart Sequence
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Scarblade's Malice
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stir Up Trouble
  • 35 Swamp
  • 1 The Masamune
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vein Ripper
  • 1 Venerated Stormsinger
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Vraan, Executioner Thane