Ashnod $25

Format: Commander

Commander: Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist is a turn-one one-drop that turns sacrifice into artifact-mana and 3/3-token generation. The deck floods the board with cheap black creatures, recycles them from the graveyard, and converts deaths into tapped Powerstones, then into Zombie artifact tokens. The commander is the primary mana engine and token producer; there is no actual hidden commander, though Cultist of the Absolute is a support enchantment that turns Ashnod into a flying deathtouch beater. Secondary wins come from global drains, especially Serrated Scorpion recursion and Tinybones Joins Up pings, then a final combat swarm. Interaction is cheap black removal and discard rather than stack play, so the plan is linear, grindy, and heavily dependent on keeping the graveyard full.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acolyte of Xathrid
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Annihilating Glare
  • 1 Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist
  • 1 Banehound
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bilious Skulldweller
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Clay Revenant
  • 1 Crawl from the Cellar
  • 1 Cremate
  • 1 Cult Conscript
  • 1 Cultist of the Absolute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Dockside Chef
  • 1 Drainpipe Vermin
  • 1 Dread Wanderer
  • 1 Drillworks Mole
  • 1 Dross Skullbomb
  • 1 Ecstatic Awakener // Awoken Demon
  • 1 Embrace Oblivion
  • 1 Engine Rat
  • 1 Etherium Pteramander
  • 1 Evolved Sleeper
  • 1 Eye Collector
  • 1 Fear of Lost Teeth
  • 1 Festering Goblin
  • 1 Fifty Feet of Rope
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Ghost-Lit Stalker
  • 1 Graf Harvest
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Greedy Freebooter
  • 1 Grim Physician
  • 1 Haunt of the Dead Marshes
  • 1 Heirloom Epic
  • 1 Hired Poisoner
  • 1 Infestation Sage
  • 1 Lash of the Balrog
  • 1 Lead Pipe
  • 1 Liliana's Steward
  • 1 Mirrodin Avenged
  • 1 Monoist Sentry
  • 1 Necrologia
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nested Shambler
  • 1 Nezumi Linkbreaker
  • 1 Persistent Specimen
  • 1 Quest for the Gravelord
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Retrofitted Transmogrant
  • 1 Serrated Scorpion
  • 1 Shadow Alley Denizen
  • 1 Skeleton Key
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Stalactite Stalker
  • 32 Swamp
  • 1 Tarrian's Soulcleaver
  • 1 Tenacious Dead
  • 1 The Last Ride
  • 1 The Millennium Calendar
  • 1 Thraben Gargoyle // Stonewing Antagonizer
  • 1 Tinybones Joins Up
  • 1 Torpor Orb
  • 1 Trinisphere
  • 1 Urn of Godfire
  • 1 Wizard's Rockets
  • 1 You Are Already Dead