NO HAND by user4483888

Format: Commander

Commander: Infernal Kirin

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This mono-black control deck uses Infernal Kirin to convert Spirit and Arcane spells into targeted hand destruction. By casting tribal spells across varied mana values, the deck strips opponent hands of critical pieces while breaking parity using discard engines like Waste Not, Geth's Grimoire, and Tergrid, God of Fright. Life totals are drained incrementally through continuous punishers including Liliana's Caress, Megrim, Fell Specter, and Entropic Battlecruiser, supported by the life-loss activation of Tinybones, Trinket Thief. A suite of tribal cost-reducers such as Urza's Incubator, Herald's Horn, and Jet Medallion accelerates deployment, while big-mana lands like Cabal Coffers fuel late-game plays like Myojin of Night's Reach and Haunting Voyage. While strong in creature removal and resource denial, the deck has minimal protection against artifact and enchantment threats and relies on sustained board presence across multiple turns to close out the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abnormal Endurance
  • 1 Accursed Duneyard
  • 1 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead
  • 1 Adaptive Automaton
  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 Ashen-Skin Zubera
  • 1 Baleful Eidolon
  • 1 Bile Urchin
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Choice of Damnations
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Dance of Shadows
  • 1 Death Denied
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Deserted Temple
  • 1 Disentomb
  • 1 Entropic Battlecruiser
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell Specter
  • 1 Footsteps of the Goryo
  • 1 Gathering Stone
  • 1 Geth's Grimoire
  • 1 Geth's Verdict
  • 1 Go Blank
  • 1 Goryo's Vengeance
  • 1 Haunting Voyage
  • 1 He Who Hungers
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hideous Laughter
  • 1 Horobi's Whisper
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Infernal Kirin
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kami of Restless Shadows
  • 1 Kyoki, Sanity's Eclipse
  • 1 Liliana's Caress
  • 1 Living End
  • 1 Long-Forgotten Gohei
  • 1 Megrim
  • 1 Multiply by Zero
  • 1 Myojin of Night's Reach
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patron of the Nezumi
  • 1 Raise the Draugr
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rend Flesh
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sangromancer
  • 1 Sickening Shoal
  • 1 Soulless Revival
  • 1 Surgical Extraction
  • 1 Swallowing Plague
  • 27 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 Terror Tide
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Haunt of Hightower
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Thief of Hope
  • 1 Tinybones, Pocket Nuisance
  • 1 Tinybones, Trinket Thief
  • 1 Unbury
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Waking Nightmare
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Will-o'-the-Wisp
  • 1 Yargle, Glutton of Urborg