Golbez, clad in darkness by user6424473

Format: Commander

Commander: Syr Konrad, the Grim

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 54

Deck overview

This deck is an aristocrats and graveyard combo list centered around Syr Konrad, the Grim. The primary game plan accelerates into a deterministic sacrifice loop using Warren Soultrader and Gravecrawler. Because Warren Soultrader is a Zombie, Gravecrawler can be cast repeatedly from the graveyard using the Treasure created by sacrificing it. With Syr Konrad on the battlefield, each sacrifice and recast deals 2 damage to every opponent for the cost of 1 life, wiping out all three opponents in a single turn without combat. The deck backs up this strategy with high-efficiency tutors like Entomb and Buried Alive, as well as alternate win conditions such as Bloodchief Ascension combined with Mindcrank, and mass-drain cards like Morality Shift and Gray Merchant of Asphodel. While the deck possesses explosive speed, high card draw, and brutal creature control through Grave Pact and Toxic Deluge, it lacks stack protection and artifact removal, leaving its combo windows vulnerable to timely interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Angel of Suffering
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Operative
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Command the Dreadhorde
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deep-Cavern Bat
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dread Summons
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Extinction Event
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
  • 1 Gix's Command
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Liliana's Standard Bearer
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Living End
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Morality Shift
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Order of Midnight // Alter Fate
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 30 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician