Mono Mill by user1262001

Format: Commander

Commander: The Master of Lake-town

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

The Master of Lake-town pilots a mono-black attrition/reanimator build that weaponizes life loss. The commander's static ability turns each point of damage or drain an opponent takes into milling, while his death trigger refills your hand once graveyards are stuffed. Early attacks from the 3/2 deathtoucher, combined with drain pieces like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Syr Konrad, the Grim, and Gray Merchant of Asphodel, rapidly fill opposing graveyards. Those yards become fuel for huge reanimation turns off Living Death, Rise of the Dark Realms, Ghouls' Night Out, and Victimize. The fastest closed lines are The Master of Lake-town plus an active Bloodchief Ascension, which mills and drains in a chain, and Ashnod's Altar + Nim Deathmantle + Puppeteer Clique with a drain payoff. The deck is a resilient, grindy midrange strategy that trades stack interaction for inevitability.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Body Launderer
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Call of the Death-Dweller
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Corpse Churn
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Geth, Lord of the Vault
  • 1 Ghouls' Night Out
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Nihil Spellbomb
  • 1 Nim Deathmantle
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Nuka-Nuke Launcher
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Obliterator
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Puppeteer Clique
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 31 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat