THE MASTER OF LAKE TOWN B4 by chrisblockd

Format: Commander

Commander: The Master of Lake-town

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This mono-black Commander deck pairs The Master of Lake-town with a high-impact reanimator and mill-drain strategy. The primary game plan focuses on stocking the graveyard early through tutors like Buried Alive or self-mill enablers, then using efficient recursion spells such as Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Victimize to cheat dominant threats like Archon of Cruelty, Syr Konrad, the Grim, and Archfiend of Despair onto the battlefield ahead of curve. The commander converts opposing life loss into milling, triggering cascading damage through Syr Konrad or building graveyard thresholds for death triggers and secondary recursion engines. Proactive disruption pieces like Dauthi Voidwalker and Orcish Bowmasters suppress enemy graveyard and draw strategies, while board wipes like Toxic Deluge maintain board parity. The deck also includes a deterministic two-card infinite combo in Bloodchief Ascension and Mindcrank to eliminate the entire table once assembled.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
  • 1 Along the Crooked Way
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arch of Orazca
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Alliance
  • 1 Dark Matter Manipulator
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Death in the Family
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Doombot Harbinger
  • 1 Doomsday Excruciator
  • 1 Down, Down to Goblin-town
  • 1 Dread Summons
  • 1 Dreadhound
  • 1 Dregs of Sorrow
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Final Act
  • 1 Gathering of Darkness
  • 1 Gideon the Oathless
  • 1 Grand Coliseum
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Increasing Ambition
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Liliana the Repentant
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mausoleum Secrets
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Necrotic Ooze
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Paramecia Coloniex
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rumble Arena
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shared Trauma
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stronghold Discipline
  • 1 Stuffy Doll
  • 1 Super Shredder
  • 1 Surveillance Room
  • 25 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 The Cloning of Shredder
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Ooze
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Tinybones Joins Up
  • 1 Too Evil to Stay Dead
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Urza's Factory
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Viconia, Drow Apostate
  • 1 Victimize