Black Cat, Cunning Thief by Oakfu

Format: Commander

Commander: Black Cat, Cunning Thief

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

Black Cat, Cunning Thief helms a monoblack theft and aristocrats control strategy. The deck leverages its commander's enter-the-battlefield ability to look nine cards deep into opposing libraries, exiling their strongest spells to cast with mana of any type. Rather than relying on traditional blink effects, the list uses a dense suite of one-mana death-redirection instants like Feign Death and Undying Malice alongside low-cost sacrifice outlets to repeatedly re-trigger Black Cat. This creates a self-sustaining card advantage engine that strips opponents of key pieces while fueling your hand. As the match progresses, monoblack mana doublers like Cabal Coffers and Nirkana Revenant provide the velocity needed to cast expensive stolen bombs and close the game. The primary victory route culminates around Turn 7 through repeated devotion life drain from Gray Merchant of Asphodel or overwhelming combat pressure from high-impact stolen threats like Elder Brain and Crabomination.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abnormal Endurance
  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arvinox, the Mind Flail
  • 1 Ashnod's Intervention
  • 1 Author of Shadows
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Black Cat, Cunning Thief
  • 1 Blade of Selves
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Caged Sun
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Come Back Wrong
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Court of Locthwain
  • 1 Crabomination
  • 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
  • 1 Cunning Rhetoric
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Demonic Gifts
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Elder Brain
  • 1 Eviscerator's Insight
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Fungal Fortitude
  • 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
  • 1 Gonti, Night Minister
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Heartless Conscription
  • 1 Intellect Devourer
  • 1 Kaervek, the Punisher
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Minion's Return
  • 1 Morbid Curiosity
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Nirkana Revenant
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Outrageous Robbery
  • 1 Pain // Suffering
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Presumed Dead
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reckoner's Bargain
  • 1 Return to Action
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soldevi Adnate
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Staff of Eden, Vault's Key
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 22 Swamp
  • 1 Thieving Amalgam
  • 1 Thieving Varmint
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undying Evil
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Villainous Wrath
  • 1 Vincent's Limit Break
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Witch's Cottage