LochPocalypse v2 by RinLoch

Format: Commander

Commander: Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 51

Deck overview

This mono-black deck leverages Sheoldred, the Apocalypse as both a life-buffer engine and an oppressive group-slug clock. The deck accelerates in the early turns using efficient black ramp and rituals to establish Sheoldred ahead of curve. Once deployed, symmetrical draw artifacts like Howling Mine and Font of Mythos turn into asymmetric weapons, draining opponents while padding the pilot's life total. The deck builds toward decisive turn-5 win attempts through massive card-draw payoffs like Peer into the Abyss or compact infinite drain loops featuring Exquisite Blood alongside Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Enduring Tenacity, or Bloodthirsty Conqueror. High-density creature removal and asymmetric tax pieces like Painful Quandary and Orcish Bowmasters suppress enemy aggression, while reanimation spells provide resilient recovery. The primary vulnerabilities stem from mono-black's inherent lack of stack interaction and difficulty answering resolved artifacts and enchantments.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Commander's Plate
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Font of Mythos
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lake of the Dead
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mai, Scornful Striker
  • 1 Memory Jar
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Oubliette
  • 1 Pain's Reward
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Profane Command
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sceptre of Eternal Glory
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Seizan, Perverter of Truth
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 25 Swamp
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat