Demonic Duo by user4144909

Format: Commander

Commander: Be'lakor, the Dark Master

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Grixis Demon-tribal value deck helmed by Be'lakor, the Dark Master, built around a simple but explosive engine: cast Demons, and each one entering deals damage equal to its power to any target while Be'lakor's own ETB refills your hand. The deck leans heavily on a massive clone package - seventeen effects like Rite of Replication, Quasiduplicate, and Cackling Counterpart - to multiply Demon ETB triggers, with the dream line being a kicked Rite of Replication on Be'lakor himself for a one-shot table kill. Secondary paths include Psychosis Crawler converting Be'lakor's draw into damage, The Emperor of Palamecia transforming into a burn finisher, and raw combat from big flying Demons boosted by Ardyn, the Usurper and Herald of Slaanesh. The deck is a midrange value pile that wins through accumulated ETB pings and a single explosive combo turn rather than fast, tutored lines.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
  • 1 Auton Soldier
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Be'lakor, the Dark Master
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Cackling Counterpart
  • 1 Chaos Defiler
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Choreographed Sparks
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Clone
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Covenant
  • 1 Devastating Onslaught
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Dream Devourer
  • 1 Electroduplicate
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fated Infatuation
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Flesh Duplicate
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
  • 1 Great Unclean One
  • 1 Gyruda, Doom of Depths
  • 1 Heat Shimmer
  • 1 Helm of the Host
  • 1 Herald of Slaanesh
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lord of Change
  • 1 Magnus the Red
  • 1 Molten Duplication
  • 1 Molten Slagheap
  • 1 Mortarion, Daemon Primarch
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Multiversal Recruitment
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pink Horror
  • 1 Plague Drone
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Quasiduplicate
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos, the Showstopper
  • 1 Raphael, Fiendish Savior
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Self-Reflection
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell
  • 1 Titan of Littjara
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Venomcrawler
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Worn Powerstone