Ayara Combo by thatwhileifound

Format: Commander

Commander: Ayara, First of Locthwain

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Ayara's mono-black aristocrats deck trades life and creatures for cards and drains opponents with every enter and death trigger. The primary plan is to grind value through recursive creatures and sacrifice outlets, then convert that engine into a compact infinite loop with Ashnod's Altar, Pitiless Plunderer, and Reassembling Skeleton or Oathsworn Vampire, finished by Blood Artist or Zulaport Cutthroat. The commander acts as an additional drain and draw engine, and also as a sac outlet for drawing cards. Secondary paths use Chainer and reanimation spells to loop Kokusho or Gray Merchant, or generate huge black mana with Cabal Coffers to finish with Exsanguinate or Torment of Hailfire. Ayara is central but not mandatory; the deck functions on its own value creatures.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abhorrent Overlord
  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Beacon of Unrest
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Chainer, Dementia Master
  • 1 Chittering Witch
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Marionette Master
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mutilate
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nim Deathmantle
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Oathsworn Vampire
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Sifter of Skulls
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 24 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Witch of the Moors
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat