Mazirek by vivi97

Format: Commander

Commander: Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari Aristocrats and +1/+1 counters strategy led by Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest. The primary plan revolves around generating sacrifice fodder—particularly Pest and Insect tokens—and sacrificing them to free outlets like Carrion Feeder, Ashnod's Altar, and Warren Soultrader. Each sacrifice triggers Mazirek, placing +1/+1 counters on your entire team to turn small tokens into lethal attackers while draining opponents through Blood Artist and Mirkwood Bats. The deck features potent synergies such as Putrid Goblin's persist interaction with Mazirek and asymmetric board control via Grave Pact and Braids, Arisen Nightmare. While the deck boasts efficient 2-mana ramp, versatile permanent removal, and strong recovery through recursion spells like Victimize, it lacks nonland tutors and stack-based countermagic. Consequently, it relies on steady card draw from engines like Skullclamp and Moldervine Reclamation to assemble its win conditions while vulnerable to timely creature removal and graveyard hate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bogwater Lumaret
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Duskshell Crawler
  • 1 Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Feral Appetite
  • 1 Fog
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Gohn, Town of Ruin
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Gorma, the Gullet
  • 1 Grapple with Death
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Immoral Bargain
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Pest Mascot
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Petrified Hamlet
  • 1 Pick Your Poison
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Ribtruss Roaster
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scurry Oak
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 Tend the Pests
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Uncharted Haven
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Virulent Emissary
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Winding Constrictor
  • 1 Witch of the Moors
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat