The Master of Lake-town by TreqJosh

Format: Commander

Commander: The Master of Lake-town

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This Mono-Black Aristocrats deck leverages The Master of Lake-town to convert life loss into symmetric mill and explosive card draw upon death. The primary strategy focuses on assembling sacrifice outlets such as Viscera Seer and Ashnod's Altar alongside recurring creatures like Reassembling Skeleton and drain payoffs including Blood Artist, Bastion of Remembrance, and Ayara, First of Locthwain. The deck transitions into a dominant board state by Turn 5 using oppressive asymmetric sacrifice engines like Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos or explosive reanimation through Living Death and Gray Merchant of Asphodel. In addition to standard aristocrat combat and drain pressure, the list features the infinite combo of Bloodchief Ascension and Mindcrank, which can instantly mill and drain all opponents. While the deck boasts rapid recovery and consistent card draw, it remains vulnerable to graveyard exile and lacks artifact removal.

Decklist (87 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baron Helmut Zemo
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Cast Away Doubt
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Consuming Corruption
  • 1 Corrupt
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Dreadhound
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Gollum, Riddle Master
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Inside Information
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Mai, Scornful Striker
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mausoleum Secrets
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Risky Shortcut
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 23 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble