Don't cross the Black Cat by AmeizingGuy

Format: Commander

Creator: AmeizingGuy

Commander: Black Cat, Cunning Thief

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black theft and attrition strategy commanded by Black Cat, Cunning Thief. The game plan focuses on generating mana advantage through classic black ramp pieces like Cabal Coffers, Crypt Ghast, and Jet Medallion, then repeatedly triggering Black Cat's enters ability to exile and cast opponents' best spells. Blink and reset tools—including Conjurer's Closet, Golden Argosy, and instant-speed 'scam' spells like Feign Death and Not Dead After All—allow repeated theft triggers while shielding the commander from removal. Secondary threats like Brainstealer Dragon, Elder Brain, and Arvinox scale your card access into the late game. Without two-card infinite combos or mass overrun effects, the deck wins through continuous incremental value, asymmetric graveyard disruption via Dauthi Voidwalker, and combat damage using opponents' own stolen threats. Its main constraints lie in a slow multi-turn clock, vulnerability to artifact-heavy strategies, and reliance on opponents running castable, high-impact spells.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archenemy's Charm
  • 1 Arvinox, the Mind Flail
  • 1 Author of Shadows
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Black Cat, Cunning Thief
  • 1 Blade of Selves
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Cunning Rhetoric
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Dread Presence
  • 1 Dream-Thief's Bandana
  • 1 Elder Brain
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Fanatical Offering
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Fungal Fortitude
  • 1 Golden Argosy
  • 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
  • 1 Gonti, Night Minister
  • 1 Grave Betrayal
  • 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
  • 1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Inside Information
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mastermind Plum
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mimic Vat
  • 1 Misfortune Teller
  • 1 Mortuary
  • 1 Mutilate
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Orochi Soul-Reaver
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rev, Tithe Extractor
  • 1 Sanctum of Eternity
  • 1 Skull Collector
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soldevi Adnate
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Terrain Generator
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thieving Varmint
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undercity Scrounger
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Withering Torment