Yawgmoth No Tutor Sacrifice by DoctorFireFarts

Format: Commander

Commander: Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered Mono-Black Aristocrats engine commanded by Yawgmoth, Thran Physician. The primary game plan focuses on deploying inexpensive, recurring creatures and token engines on early turns, then resolving Yawgmoth on Turn 4 to establish overwhelming board control and card velocity. By converting expendable creatures and life into card draws and -1/-1 counters, Yawgmoth cleanly dismantles opposing creature strategies. The deck accelerates into a definitive same-turn victory on Turn 5 through synergistic loops, most notably combining Yawgmoth with Nest of Scarabs and an aristocrat drain payoff like Blood Artist or Zulaport Cutthroat to draw the library and drain the entire table to zero. Backed by explosive mana options like Cabal Coffers, Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx, and Bolas's Citadel, the deck generates vast resource disparities. While creature and graveyard control are dominant, the list remains vulnerable to artifact-based hate and dedicated stack interaction.

Decklist (99 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Body Count
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deserted Temple
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Geralf's Messenger
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Hive of the Eye Tyrant
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Nest of Scarabs
  • 1 Nim Deathmantle
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Oathsworn Vampire
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Sifter of Skulls
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 22 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of Light and Shadow
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat