Syr Konrad aristocrats by chickenpie393

Format: Commander

Commander: Syr Konrad, the Grim

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This mono-black aristocrats and combo deck is built around Syr Konrad, the Grim, turning creature deaths, mill steps, and graveyard zone transitions into symmetric table-wide damage. The deck develops mana and token fodder early through staples like Bitterblossom, Ophiomancer, and low-cost mana rocks. On turns 4 and 5, it transitions from value attrition to decisive win states using two main angles: an infinite sacrifice loop or fast infect kills. The primary combo pairs Putrid Goblin and Thran Vigil with a free sacrifice outlet like Viscera Seer or Ashnod's Altar, generating unbounded Konrad triggers to eliminate all three opponents in a single turn. Alternatively, cards like Phyresis, Grafted Exoskeleton, and Tainted Strike grant Konrad infect, allowing repeated mill activations to hand out ten poison counters across the table. Robust recursion spells provide resilient backup lines if key permanents are disrupted.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Chainer, Dementia Master
  • 1 Chittering Witch
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dash Hopes
  • 1 Death Cultist
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Elegy Acolyte
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Feldon's Cane
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Grafted Exoskeleton
  • 1 Grasp of Darkness
  • 1 Gravelighter
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Infectious Inquiry
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Nameless Inversion
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Petrified Hamlet
  • 1 Phyresis
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sothera, the Supervoid
  • 1 Susurian Voidborn
  • 32 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Strike
  • 1 The Endstone
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Thran Vigil
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Withering Boon
  • 1 Worthy Cost
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan