Consuming Darkness by VanpaiaHantaa

Format: Commander

Creator: VanpaiaHantaa

Commander: Ayara, First of Locthwain

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 76

Deck overview

This deck is a competitive mono-black aristocrats combo deck piloted by Ayara, First of Locthwain. It combines format-ceiling fast mana, premium black tutors, and redundant reanimation spells to execute compact creature sacrifice loops as early as Turn 2 or 3. The primary win condition loops Warren Soultrader and Gravecrawler with Ayara on the battlefield to drain the entire table of life simultaneously. Backup lines leverage Hoarding Broodlord convoking into Saw in Half, Ad Nauseam, Necropotence, and Bolas's Citadel to overwhelm opponents with card volume and storm directly into a win. Proactive stax pieces like Opposition Agent, Dauthi Voidwalker, and Vexing Bauble disrupt opposing strategies and eliminate free interaction windows, ensuring safe execution.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bazaar of Baghdad
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Carnival of Souls
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Engineered Explosives
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lake of the Dead
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Oathsworn Vampire
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Rain of Filth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sickening Shoal
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician