Kirin - A Deck of Misery ⛩️($Budget)

Format: Commander

Commander: Infernal Kirin

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a mono-black "hellbent" discard-control deck helmed by Infernal Kirin, whose trigger converts every Spirit and Arcane spell you cast into a mass hand-stripping effect. The plan is to deploy a dense suite of one-shot discard (Hymn to Tourach, Duress, Persecute), repeatable discard engines (He Who Hungers, Mind Slash, Ghost-Lit Stalker), and punishing payoffs that convert each discarded card into damage, cards, tokens, or mana - Megrim, Liliana's Caress, Waste Not, Geth's Grimoire, Raiders' Wake. With all three opponents emptied, the deck closes through incremental drain, Myojin of Night's Reach wiping every hand, and Tinybones, Trinket Thief's activated 10-life burn. A late-game Rise of the Dark Realms serves as a mass-reanimation haymaker. The deck is grindy, sorcery-speed, and commander-reliant for its explosive discard turns, but the shell runs a genuine 50%+ of its plan even if the Kirin never resolves.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ashen-Skin Zubera
  • 1 Asylum Visitor
  • 1 Auntie's Sentence
  • 1 Bandit's Talent
  • 1 Benny, Platinum Thief
  • 1 Burglar Rat
  • 1 Chilling Apparition
  • 1 Cranial Extraction
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Death Denied
  • 1 Devouring Greed
  • 1 Divest
  • 1 Duress
  • 1 Echo of Dusk
  • 1 Elderfang Disciple
  • 1 Entropic Battlecruiser
  • 1 Farbog Revenant
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell Specter
  • 1 Foul Familiar
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Geth's Grimoire
  • 1 Ghost-Lit Stalker
  • 1 Glasses of Urza
  • 1 Gravelighter
  • 1 He Who Hungers
  • 1 Hecteyes
  • 1 Horobi's Whisper
  • 1 Hymn to Tourach
  • 1 Infernal Kirin
  • 1 Kami of the Waning Moon
  • 1 Kyoki, Sanity's Eclipse
  • 1 Lantern of Insight
  • 1 Liliana's Caress
  • 1 Lost Legion
  • 1 Megrim
  • 1 Mind Rake
  • 1 Mind Slash
  • 1 Myojin of Night's Reach
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Persecute
  • 1 Quest for the Nihil Stone
  • 1 Raiders' Wake
  • 1 Rend Flesh
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rotting Rats
  • 1 Seymour Flux
  • 1 Shrieking Affliction
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulless Revival
  • 1 Stronghold Rats
  • 36 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Séance Board
  • 1 Three Tragedies
  • 1 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
  • 1 Tormented Soul
  • 1 Ugin's Conjurant
  • 1 Virus Beetle
  • 1 Waking Nightmare
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Wicked Akuba
  • 1 Will-o'-the-Wisp
  • 1 Words of Waste