death dealers by marineboone

Format: Commander

Commander: Mari, the Killing Quill

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This mono-black control and attrition deck is commanded by Mari, the Killing Quill. The strategy deploys low-cost, evasive Rogues, Assassins, and Mercenaries while using hyper-efficient spot removal to exile dying opposing creatures with hit counters. Once Mari enters the battlefield, she grants all outlaws deathtouch, turning combat damage into a repeatable resource engine that draws cards and generates pairs of Treasure tokens. By combining deathtouch with pingers such as Viridian Longbow, the deck systematically eliminates opposing creatures to maintain board dominance. The mana and card advantage generated by these combat connections fuel decisive table-wide drain engines including Mirkwood Bats, Agent of the Iron Throne, and Revel in Riches. While the deck excels at creature suppression and asymmetric graveyard denial, it carries inherent vulnerabilities to stack-based combos, noncreature spells, and mass exile board wipes due to mono-black's structural limits on artifact and stack interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin Initiate
  • 1 Back in Town
  • 1 Big Game Hunter
  • 1 Blackbloom Rogue // Blackbloom Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boss Uramon, Shadow's Reach
  • 1 Butch DeLoria, Tunnel Snake
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Caged Sun
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Cloak and Dagger
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Detection Tower
  • 1 Discreet Retreat
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Frogtosser Banneret
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Heraldic Banner
  • 1 Hoard Robber
  • 1 Hooded Blightfang
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Kiku, Night's Flower
  • 1 Lich's Relic
  • 1 Mari, the Killing Quill
  • 1 Meathook Massacre II
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Nighthawk Scavenger
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Nyx Lotus
  • 1 Olinda the Oblivious
  • 1 Oona's Blackguard
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Pathway Arrows
  • 1 Rakish Crew
  • 1 Rankle, Master of Pranks
  • 1 Rathi Assassin
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Royal Assassin
  • 1 Shadow Alley Denizen
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Stalactite Stalker
  • 21 Swamp
  • 1 Termination Facilitator
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thieves' Guild Enforcer
  • 1 Tinybones, the Pickpocket
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vadmir, New Blood
  • 1 Vampire Cutthroat
  • 1 Vat of Rebirth
  • 1 Viridian Longbow
  • 1 White Widow, Yelena Belova
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat