Mono black rebuild by TheDahv

Format: Commander

Commander: Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black spellslinger control and punisher strategy commanded by Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian. The game plan revolves around filling the graveyard with cheap instants and sorceries through efficient removal, card draw, and self-mill while controlling the board with asymmetric nontoken edict effects. Once Fandaniel enters the battlefield, every instant or sorcery cast surveils to dig deeper and fuel the graveyard. At the end step, opponents face a brutal dilemma: sacrifice a nontoken creature or lose two life for each instant and sorcery in your graveyard. Because the deck systematically strips opposing boards of creatures through cards like Sheoldred's Edict, Soul Shatter, and Toxic Deluge, opponents are routinely forced to absorb massive, unpreventable life loss. Synergistic engines such as Tergrid, God of Fright, Gisa, Glorious Resurrector, and Toshiro Umezawa capitalize on opposing sacrifices, turning defensive interaction into rapid table-wide elimination.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Pact
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Break Under Pressure
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkness
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Deserted Temple
  • 1 Diresight
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
  • 1 Hostile Negotiations
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Innocent Blood
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Liliana's Triumph
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mutilate
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Ogre Slumlord
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Stinging Study
  • 1 Sudden Spoiling
  • 28 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 Toshiro Umezawa
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vona's Hunger
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Winter, Tormented Loner
  • 1 Withering Torment