Sacrificial Lambs by Vivec_Vicaris

Format: Commander

Commander: Braids, Arisen Nightmare

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 58

Deck overview

This mono-black Aristocrats deck utilizes Braids, Arisen Nightmare in the command zone as an early engine for aggressive card draw and board attrition. By pairing Braids with cheap self-recurring creatures, token producers, and expendable utility artifacts, the deck forces opponents into difficult choices between losing board presence or granting massive card advantage. The mid-game transitions into oppressive resource denial through cards like Grave Pact and Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, continually stripping opposing creatures. The deck ultimately closes games on Turn 6 using high-efficiency loops involving Warren Soultrader, Gravecrawler, and drain effects such as Blood Artist or Bastion of Remembrance, or through burst finishers like Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Exsanguinate. High recursion density ensures resilience against removal, though the lack of blue stack interaction leaves it reliant on proactive pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Prized Statue
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Super Shredder
  • 24 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treacherous Blessing
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Withering Curse
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat