Graveyard Smash 2 by user7265946

Format: Commander

Commander: Chainer, Dementia Master

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Mono-Black Reanimator strategy piloted by Chainer, Dementia Master. The game plan revolves around filling the graveyard using self-mill cards like Stitcher's Supplier, Ripples of Undeath, and Commune with Evil, then deploying high-impact creatures such as Archon of Cruelty, Grave Titan, and Gray Merchant of Asphodel. Once assembled on Turn 5, Chainer uses instant-speed reanimation to repeatedly trigger powerful enter-the-battlefield abilities and sacrifice loops. The deck excels at board control, utilizing asymmetric edicts like Dictate of Erebos and Archfiend of Depravity to suppress opposing boards while accumulating card advantage through Morbid Opportunist and Braids, Arisen Nightmare. It closes the game by draining the table with repeated Gary activations. While resilient against creature-based strategies, the deck remains vulnerable to targeted graveyard exile and lacks answers to noncreature permanents.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Another Chance
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Back for Seconds
  • 1 Balthor the Defiled
  • 1 Beacon of Unrest
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Break Under Pressure
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chainer, Dementia Master
  • 1 Commune with Evil
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Doom Blade
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreadfeast Demon
  • 1 Eviscerator's Insight
  • 1 Fang, Fearless l'Cie
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Foulmire Knight // Profane Insight
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Havoc Demon
  • 1 High-Society Hunter
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Meathook Massacre II
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Ogre Slumlord
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Patron of the Vein
  • 1 Proft, Sinister Mastermind
  • 1 Rankle's Prank
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Risky Research
  • 1 Rowan's Grim Search
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Scarblade Scout
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Shadowgrange Archfiend
  • 1 Shinra Reinforcements
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 34 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 Throne of Eldraine
  • 1 Tinybones, Pocket Nuisance
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Venomous Hierophant
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Worn Powerstone