Braids by user2357567

Format: Commander

Commander: Braids, Arisen Nightmare

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a mono-black attrition and sacrifice deck helmed by Braids, Arisen Nightmare. The plan is to flood the board with disposable permanents-tokens from Ophiomancer and Dreadhorde Invasion, recursive bodies like Reassembling Skeleton and Bloodghast, and cheap artifacts-then repeatedly trigger Braids at end step to force opponents into painful sacrifices or chip damage while refilling your hand. The deck layers classic black drain payoffs (Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Exsanguinate), symmetrical resource denial (Pox, Smallpox, Death Cloud), and a compact reanimation suite to steal or recur value creatures. There are no infinite combo lines; wins come from accumulated drain, a big Coffers-fueled Exsanguinate, or grinding the table out with edicts and devotion. Braids is the primary card-advantage engine and a steady source of pressure, but the 99 still functions as a self-sufficient mono-black midrange list if she is answered.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bog Witch
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Pit
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Consuming Corruption
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkstar Augur
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Death Cloud
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Deserted Temple
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Eumidian Hatchery
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hopeless Nightmare
  • 1 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Leyline of the Void
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mephitic Draught
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mycosynth Wellspring
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Polluted Mire
  • 1 Pox
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Prized Statue
  • 1 Rain of Filth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sadistic Sacrament
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smallpox
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 23 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Timeline Culler
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Withering Torment