Bite, Die, Repeat by Shecter

Format: Commander

Commander: The Serpent Society

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 73

Deck overview

This Golgari deck is led by The Serpent Society, turning every deathtouch creature death into an asymmetric edict that forces each opponent to sacrifice a nontoken creature. The deck leverages cheap deathtouch creatures and repeatable token generators like Ophiomancer, Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons, and Pharika, God of Affliction to constantly trigger its commander and traditional grave-pact effects. This suppresses opposing creature-based game plans while keeping your own engine fueled with cards and mana. The deck accelerates using efficient green ramp, mana dorks with deathtouch, and fast black mana like Dark Ritual and Culling the Weak. To close out games, the list pivots from board-locking attrition into decisive aristocrat combo finishes powered by Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, Razaketh, the Foulblooded, and drain outlets like Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat. With extensive tutor redundancy, instant-speed protection, and low-cost reanimation, the deck maintains high consistency and rapid recovery from sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Aphelia, Viper Whisperer
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bayou
  • 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 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 3 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 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity
  • 1 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nightshade Dryad
  • 1 Noxious Newt
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Oakhame Adversary
  • 1 Ogre Slumlord
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pharika, God of Affliction
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Serpent Society
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tinybones, the Pickpocket
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 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 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat