Braids Deck Budget by user3439386

Format: Commander

Commander: Braids, Arisen Nightmare

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a mono-black aristocrats/sacrifice deck helmed by Braids, Arisen Nightmare, built to convert every permanent sacrificed into card advantage and table-wide life loss. The commander's end-step trigger forces each opponent to either sacrifice a matching permanent or lose 2 life and let you draw, making her a repeatable engine of attrition. The deck layers drain payoffs - Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Ayara, First of Locthwain, Syr Konrad, the Grim, Mirkwood Bats, and Funeral Room - so every death, sacrifice, and reanimation chips away at all opponents at once. A reanimation package (Reanimate, Animate Dead, Victimize, Whip of Erebos) recurs the best creatures, while stax pieces like Winter Moon and Mornsong Aria slow the table. The primary win is grinding opponents out through drain triggers, with an infinite finish available via Bloodthirsty Conqueror + Marauding Blight-Priest.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Witch // Infectious Curse
  • 1 Aggressive Negotiations
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Balemurk Leech
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodcrazed Socialite
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Borrowed Malevolence
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Burglar Rat
  • 1 Butcher Ghoul
  • 1 Cemetery Recruitment
  • 1 Collective Brutality
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Corpse Churn
  • 1 Cruel Truths
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Ingot
  • 1 Demon's Grasp
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Doom Blade
  • 1 Douse in Gloom
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Essence Extraction
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fear of Lost Teeth
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Giant Scorpion
  • 1 Gifted Aetherborn
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grave Venerations
  • 1 High Fae Negotiator
  • 1 Infestation Sage
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Killing Wave
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Macabre Waltz
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Midnight Scavengers
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mornsong Aria
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Murderous Compulsion
  • 1 Necrologia
  • 1 Necrosynthesis
  • 1 Pharika's Libation
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Planeswalker's Scorn
  • 1 Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette
  • 1 Prying Questions
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sinister Monolith
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul-Shackled Zombie
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thought-Stalker Warlock
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Vampire Soulcaller
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wander in Death
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Winter Moon
  • 1 Winter's Intervention
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Worthy Cost
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat