Belakor, The Dark Master by riboyi9814

Format: Commander

Commander: Be'lakor, the Dark Master

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Be'lakor, the Dark Master is the engine: a Demon-tribal commander who turns every other Demon into a draw spell and a burn spell. The deck's primary plan is to ramp and discount into Be'lakor, then chain Demons for card advantage and direct damage, with Liliana's Contract as a clean alternate win once four differently named Demons remain on board. Secondary combat paths include Ormendahl, Withengar Unbound, annihilator Eldrazi, and Master of Cruelties with evasion. The deck is midrange and swingy: powerful high-CMC Demons, token production, and reanimation give it explosive turns, but the mana base is slow and the commander is central to most wins. No double-faced commander exists; double-faced utility cards support the plan.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archenemy's Charm
  • 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
  • 1 Avatar of Slaughter
  • 1 Balefire Dragon
  • 1 Balor
  • 1 Be'lakor, the Dark Master
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Bloodgift Demon
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Tempest
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Demonic Covenant
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elbrus, the Binding Blade // Withengar Unbound
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Great Unclean One
  • 1 Grixis Panorama
  • 1 Harvester of Souls
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Herald of Slaanesh
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Liliana's Contract
  • 1 Lord Xander, the Collector
  • 1 Lord of Change
  • 1 Lord of the Void
  • 1 Machine God's Effigy
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Master of Cruelties
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Oscorp Industries
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pathrazer of Ulamog
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Qarsi Revenant
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Rakdos, Patron of Chaos
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Royal Assassin
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorceress Queen
  • 1 Sower of Discord
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summon: G.F. Ifrit
  • 1 Summon: Primal Odin
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thryx, the Sudden Storm
  • 1 Ulamog's Crusher
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 You See a Guard Approach