Arsenic & Old Math by Valkarion

Format: Commander

Commander: Minthara, Merciless Soul

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a classic Orzhov aristocrats deck helmed by Minthara, Merciless Soul, built around a simple loop: sacrifice permanents to trigger death payoffs, accumulate experience counters, and drain the table out. The primary engine pairs token generators like Bitterblossom and Elspeth, Storm Slayer with sacrifice outlets like Viscera Seer and Priest of Forgotten Gods, converting every death into life loss through Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Bastion of Remembrance, and Ayara, First of Locthwain. Minthara's experience counters turn the wide board of small tokens into a real combat threat while giving her scaling ward. The deck closes games through incremental drain, a late Debt to the Deathless, or an Eldrazi Conscription-suited flyer. It is a grindy, value-oriented build with no infinite combos - it wins by out-valuing opponents over many turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1 Azula, Ruthless Firebender
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Belladonna Took
• 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
• 1 Bitterblossom
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1 Cauldron Haze
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Clever Concealment
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Debt to the Deathless
• 1 Desolate Mire
• 1 Despark
• 1 Eclipsed Steppe
• 1 Eldrazi Conscription
• 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
• 1 Erode
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Farewell
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Forsaken Miner
• 1 Ghost Quarter
• 1 Grateful Apparition
• 1 Grave Pact
• 1 Grim Hireling
• 1 Inkshield
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
• 1 Kaya's Ghostform
• 1 Land Tax
• 1 Liesa, Forgotten Archangel
• 1 Life Insurance
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Marionette Master
• 1 Metastatic Evangel
• 1 Minthara, Merciless Soul
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 1 Nephalia Academy
• 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
• 1 Ninja Teen
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Peat Bog
• 1 Pitiless Plunderer
• 6 Plains
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1 Realm of Koh
• 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Silverquill, the Disputant
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 13 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Tainted Field
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Teysa Karlov
• 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Turbulent Moor
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Vindicate
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Voice of Victory
• 1 Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
• 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat