Master of Lake-Town by beesk

Format: Commander

Commander: The Master of Lake-town

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a mono-black "life as a resource" combo/drain deck helmed by The Master of Lake-town. The commander's deathtouch body and mill-on-life-loss trigger dovetail perfectly with the deck's core drain package - Bloodchief Ascension, Syr Konrad, the Grim, Dreadhound, and Mindcrank - turning every point of life loss into card-advantage mill. The deck pays life aggressively through K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth, Necropotence, Bolas's Citadel, and Vilis, Broker of Blood to turbo out a high tutor density and reanimation suite. Primary wins are deterministic combo lines: Mindcrank + Bloodchief Ascension (infinite mill-drain), Necrotic Ooze + Skirge Familiar + Asmodeus the Archfiend/Vilis, Broker of Blood (infinite mana/draw into a payoff), and Bolas's Citadel + Aetherflux Reservoir storm. The Master amplifies the plan but is not the wincon itself.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Asmodeus the Archfiend
• 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1 Baron Helmut Zemo
• 1 Beseech the Mirror
• 1 Beseech the Queen
• 1 Bitter Triumph
• 1 Bloodchief Ascension
• 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
• 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Bolas's Citadel
• 1 Bonders' Enclave
• 1 Breach the Multiverse
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Cabal Coffers
• 1 Castle Locthwain
• 1 Charcoal Diamond
• 1 Conqueror's Flail
• 1 Consuming Corruption
• 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
• 1 Crypt Ghast
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Defile
• 1 Defiler of Flesh
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled
• 1 Doom Whisperer
• 1 Dreadhound
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
• 1 Imp's Mischief
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Insatiable Avarice
• 1 Jet Medallion
• 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
• 1 Killing Wave
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Mesmeric Orb
• 1 Mindcrank
• 1 Necromancy
• 1 Necropotence
• 1 Necrotic Ooze
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Peer into the Abyss
• 1 Plunge into Darkness
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Sensei's Divining Top
• 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 1 Skirge Familiar
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stitch Together
• 26 Swamp
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1 Temporal Extortion
• 1 The Master of Lake-town
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Tree of Perdition
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
• 1 War Room
• 1 Witch's Cottage
• 1 Withering Torment