Bite, Die, Repeat Higher by Shecter

Format: Commander

Commander: The Serpent Society

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This Golgari Aristocrats deck leverages The Serpent Society as a devastating command-zone stax and attrition centerpiece. The commander pairs a formidable ward 5 poison defense with an asymmetric edict trigger that forces each opponent to sacrifice a nontoken creature whenever a friendly deathtouch creature dies. Dense low-cost deathtouch creatures, mana dorks, and recurring token generators like Ophiomancer fuel this engine, while redundant Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos effects completely clear opposing creature boards. The deck supports this attrition strategy with efficient 0–2 CMC ramp, potent card advantage engines like Skullclamp and Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, and versatile free removal including Deadly Rollick and Force of Vigor. Without relying on infinite combos, the deck smoothly transitions from early creature lockdown to inevitable table elimination through steady aristocrat drain from Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Syr Konrad, the Grim, reinforced by punishing finishers like Massacre Wurm and a transformed Ormendahl.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Aphelia, Viper Whisperer
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dragon Sniper
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fang of Shigeki
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Frog Butler
  • 1 Glissa Sunslayer
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Moss Viper
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nightshade Dryad
  • 1 Noxious Newt
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Saryth, the Viper's Fang
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Serpent Society
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat