Pay No Mind by Tofken

Format: Commander

Commander: K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This mono-black deck focuses on turning life into a primary resource using K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth. By substituting two life for each black mana symbol, the deck accelerates high-cost spells and rapid spell sequences ahead of standard mana curves. The early game focuses on playing basic Swamps and minor cost reducers like Jet Medallion to deploy K'rrik safely on Turn 4. Once K'rrik is on the battlefield, the deck chains life-discounted draw spells such as Sign in Blood and Read the Bones into graveyard setups via Buried Alive. The primary win path leverages reanimated threats like Massacre Wurm, steady life-drain engines including Blood Artist and Marauding Blight-Priest, and large finishers like Exsanguinate. While the deck features an extensive removal suite to control opposing creatures, it relies heavily on K'rrik surviving and remains vulnerable to artifact-heavy strategies, enchantment-based locks, and targeted creature removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Craving
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Archenemy's Charm
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bile Blight
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Breathe Your Last
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Consuming Corruption
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Dark Tutelage
  • 1 Darkness
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Defiler of Flesh
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Disciple of Phenax
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreams of Steel and Oil
  • 1 Duress
  • 1 Etched Slith
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Final Vengeance
  • 1 Gifted Aetherborn
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Grafted Butcher
  • 1 Grasp of Darkness
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 Ichor Shade
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Malakir Blood-Priest
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Order of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Gargantua
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Phyrexian Walker
  • 1 Pox
  • 1 Priest of Gix
  • 1 Rain of Filth
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skirge Familiar
  • 32 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Thoughtseize
  • 1 Toxic Abomination
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Requiem
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vraan, Executioner Thane
  • 1 Wurmcoil Larva
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat