Braids by viashino963

Format: Commander

Commander: Braids, Cabal Minion

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 24

Deck overview

This deck uses Braids, Cabal Minion as a repeatable sacrifice engine rather than as a direct damage commander. The main plan is to deploy a token or recursion source, cast Braids, Cabal Minion, and make every upkeep costly for opponents while preserving the deck's own board. Bitterblossom, Ophiomancer, Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia, and Reassembling Skeleton are the best fodder options. Grave Pact, Contamination, Oppression, and Smokestack provide stronger but less consistently assembled control states. The list has useful creature removal, discard, sweepers, and graveyard interaction, but little protection and no deterministic win condition. It can dominate creature-heavy tables through sustained attrition, yet opponents retain meaningful actions and can remove the central engine. Its ordinary plan is a turn-5 pressure engine, not a reliable table kill.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Big Game Hunter
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bottomless Pit
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Braids, Cabal Minion
  • 1 Cabal Pit
  • 1 Cackling Fiend
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Chromatic Star
  • 1 Circuit Mender
  • 1 Coldsteel Heart
  • 1 Contamination
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deathspore Thallid
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Eyeblight's Ending
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Festering Goblin
  • 1 Ghastly Demise
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravedigger
  • 1 Hypnotic Cloud
  • 1 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Infernal Contract
  • 1 Innocent Blood
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Magus of the Abyss
  • 1 Makeshift Mannequin
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Massacre
  • 1 Mind Rot
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mind Swords
  • 1 Morgue Theft
  • 1 Mournwhelk
  • 1 Nameless Inversion
  • 1 Nekrataal
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Oppression
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Perish
  • 1 Phyrexian Gargantua
  • 1 Polluted Mire
  • 1 Pox
  • 1 Raise Dead
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Send in the Pest
  • 1 Sengir Autocrat
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smallpox
  • 1 Smokestack
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 31 Swamp
  • 1 Tangle Wire
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undertaker
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Warren Pilferers