Syr Konrad aristocrats by chickenpie393

Format: Commander

Commander: Syr Konrad, the Grim

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This mono-black Commander deck operates as a lethal Aristocrats and graveyard attrition engine commanded by Syr Konrad, the Grim. The primary game plan focuses on rapidly accelerating mana through low-cost rocks and dark rituals, establishing continuous creature fodder engines like Bitterblossom and Ophiomancer, and deploying Syr Konrad by Turn 4. Once Konrad is online, the deck weaponizes every zone transition: creatures dying, cards milled from libraries, and cards leaving graveyards deal direct damage to all opponents simultaneously. The deck can close games explosively through infinite persist loops using Putrid Goblin, Thran Vigil, and a free sacrifice outlet like Ashnod's Altar, or by applying infect via Tainted Strike and Phyresis to turn modest mill activations into immediate table kills. Robust graveyard recursion through Reanimate and Victimize provides strong resilience against board wipes, while high-octane engines like Bolas's Citadel and K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth provide overwhelming card advantage and mana velocity.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Chainer, Dementia Master
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Chittering Witch
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dash Hopes
  • 1 Death Cultist
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Elegy Acolyte
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Grafted Exoskeleton
  • 1 Grasp of Darkness
  • 1 Gravelighter
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Infectious Inquiry
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Nameless Inversion
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Petrified Hamlet
  • 1 Phyresis
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sothera, the Supervoid
  • 1 Susurian Voidborn
  • 32 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Strike
  • 1 The Endstone
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 Thran Vigil
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Withering Boon
  • 1 Worthy Cost
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan