DO AND DIE AGAIN by user4483888

Format: Commander

Commander: Drivnod, Carnage Dominus

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 52

Deck overview

This mono-black aristocrats deck is piloted by Drivnod, Carnage Dominus, functioning as a potent trigger doubler in the command zone. The deck operates by deploying resilient sacrifice outlets alongside recursive creatures and token generators during the early turns, establishing steady card flow through engines like Skullclamp and Yawgmoth, Thran Physician. On Turn 4 to 5, the deck transitions into a lethal threat by casting Drivnod, doubling all death triggers to rapidly drain opponents through payoffs like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Bastion of Remembrance. In addition to direct life drain, asymmetric attrition pieces like Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos completely suppress opposing creature-based strategies. Deep graveyard recursion via Victimize, Reanimate, and Living Death provides exceptional engine recovery against board wipes, allowing the deck to close games reliably around Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lolth, Spider Queen
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 26 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Vein Ripper
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vraan, Executioner Thane
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat