Malik by user5771888

Format: Commander

Commander: Malik, Grim Manipulator

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Malik, Grim Manipulator helms a Mardu sacrifice-and-treasure attrition deck. The game plan is to strip opposing boards with a dense suite of edict effects - Fleshbag Marauder, Plaguecrafter, Demon's Disciple, Archfiend of Depravity, Martyr's Bond, and Malik's own ETB - while converting every sacrifice into Treasures and table-wide damage through Mayhem Devil, Mirkwood Bats, Reckless Fireweaver, and Syr Konrad, the Grim. Those Treasures then fuel huge X-spell finishers like Exsanguinate and Debt to the Deathless, with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose and Marauding Blight-Priest turning the lifegain into additional reach. Hellkite Tyrant offers an alternate artifact-based win condition once Treasure count climbs. This is a midrange control deck that wins by grinding out resources, forcing sacrifices, and eventually converting accumulated mana into a one-turn table drain.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Accursed Marauder
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archfiend of Depravity
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Bleachbone Verge
• 1 Bloodfell Caves
• 1 Butcher of Malakir
• 1 Chandra, Spark Hunter
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Crackling Doom
• 1 Crossroads Village
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Debt to the Deathless
• 1 Demand Answers
• 1 Demon's Disciple
• 1 Dimension X
• 1 Dispatch
• 1 Dáin, Lord of the Iron Hills
• 1 Eerie Interlude
• 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Fake Your Own Death
• 1 Fatal Push
• 1 Fields of Strife
• 1 Fisk Tower
• 1 Fleshbag Marauder
• 1 Flickerwisp
• 1 Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge
• 1 Gleaming Splendor
• 1 Goldspan Dragon
• 1 Gollum, Riddle Master
• 1 Grand Abolisher
• 1 Harvester of Souls
• 1 Head of the Hunt
• 1 Hell's Kitchen
• 1 Hellkite Tyrant
• 1 Insomnia, Crown City
• 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 It That Betrays
• 1 Justiciar's Portal
• 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
• 1 Legate Lanius, Caesar's Ace
• 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
• 1 Malik, Grim Manipulator
• 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
• 1 Mardu Siegebreaker
• 1 Martyr's Bond
• 1 Mayhem Devil
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 3 Mountain
• 1 Mythos of Snapdax
• 1 Night Market
• 1 Nomad Outpost
• 1 Ominous Asylum
• 1 Plaguecrafter
• 3 Plains
• 1 Professional Face-Breaker
• 1 Rabanastre, Royal City
• 1 Rain of Riches
• 1 Rakdos Charm
• 1 Razortrap Gorge
• 1 Reckless Fireweaver
• 1 Restoration Angel
• 1 Restoration Magic
• 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
• 1 Scoured Barrens
• 1 Seal from Existence
• 1 Season of Loss
• 1 Sheoldred's Edict
• 1 Slip On the Ring
• 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Starting Town
• 1 Sun Titan
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Misty Mountains Cold
• 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
• 1 Thriving Bluff
• 1 Thriving Moor
• 1 Uncharted Haven
• 1 Vector, Imperial Capital
• 1 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast
• 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1 Wind-Scarred Crag
• 1 Xorn
• 1 Zombify