Auntie Ool's Withering Wake by NatePlaysMagic

Format: Commander

Commander: Auntie Ool, Cursewretch

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This Auntie Ool, Cursewretch deck is a high-synergy Jund build centered entirely on the -1/-1 counter mechanic. The primary game plan is to spread -1/-1 counters across the board using creatures, spells, and enchantments, leveraging the commander's ward-blight and card-draw trigger to refill the hand. The deck transforms the -1/-1 theme into a value engine through pieces like Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons, Nest of Scarabs, The Scorpion God, and Obelisk Spider, which generate tokens, draw cards, or drain life from the proliferation of counters. The ultimate path to victory is assembling an infinite combo-most often via Yawgmoth, Thran Physician plus Blowfly Infestation and a token producer, or Devoted Druid + Quillspike for infinite mana-or burning out the table with All Will Be One. Massacre Girl, Known Killer and Kulrath Knight serve as powerful board-control and stax elements that lock opponents out while the deck executes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Auntie Ool, Cursewretch
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blight Rot
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Blowfly Infestation
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contagion Clasp
  • 1 Contagion Engine
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Darkness Descends
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dusk Urchins
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Everlasting Torment
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Generous Patron
  • 1 Glistening Oil
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Grim Affliction
  • 1 Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons
  • 1 Harbinger of Night
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Ifnir Deadlands
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Kulrath Knight
  • 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Massacre Girl, Known Killer
  • 1 Midnight Banshee
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necroskitter
  • 1 Nest of Scarabs
  • 1 Obelisk Spider
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Quillspike
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Snuffers
  • 1 Soul-Scar Mage
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Reaper, King No More
  • 1 The Scorpion God
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground