Tormented Loner by TenguHangover

Format: Commander

Commander: Winter, Tormented Loner

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 51

Deck overview

This mono-black deck functions as an aristocrat-control engine built around heavy self-mill, asymmetric creature sacrifice, and explosive mass reanimation finishes. Commanded by Winter, Tormented Loner, the deck uses its commander as an early edict tool and scaling combat threat. The primary game plan fills the graveyard rapidly using Mesmeric Orb, Ripples of Undeath, and Stitcher's Supplier, while locking down opposing boards through continuous edict effects from Grave Pact, Dictate of Erebos, and Sheoldred, Whispering One. Once a critical mass of creatures is assembled in the graveyard by Turn 6, the deck resolves a decisive mass reanimation spell like Living Death or Balthor the Defiled. This simultaneously wipes opposing boards and returns devastating payoffs like Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Massacre Wurm, and Syr Konrad, the Grim, draining the entire table in a single turn via sacrifice outlets like Warren Soultrader and Altar of Dementia.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Activated Sleeper
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Angel of Suffering
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Balthor the Defiled
  • 1 Blight Titan
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cemetery Tampering
  • 1 Criminal Past
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dread Presence
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreadhound
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Filth
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Hollow Marauder
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Morality Shift
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nighthowler
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Out of the Tombs
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Qarsi Revenant
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 34 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Terror Tide
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Undead Butler
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Winter, Tormented Loner
  • 1 Zodiark, Umbral God
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat