Braids, Cabal Minion by Konvikt

Format: Commander

Commander: Braids, Cabal Minion

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 73

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered mono-black stax and combo archetype designed to suppress opposing development while accelerating toward an immediate infinite-damage combo. Powered by format-ceiling fast mana such as Dark Ritual, Mana Vault, and Chrome Mox, the deck deploys early disruptive permanents like Braids, Cabal Minion, Contamination, and Trinisphere. These stax pieces restrict opponent mana and force continuous permanent sacrifices. Token generators like Bitterblossom and Ophiomancer break parity, ensuring your own board state thrives under sacrifice symmetric effects. Dense unconditional tutoring via Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, and Beseech the Mirror seamlessly transitions the game from resource strangulation into a decisive win. The primary win condition combines Professor Onyx and Chain of Smog, triggering infinite Magecraft life drain in a single turn. Backup routes including Gravecrawler sacrifice loops, Bolas's Citadel, and the Maralen of the Mornsong with Opposition Agent lock ensure high resilience and inevitability.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Ad Nauseam
• 1 Ambition's Cost
• 1 Ancient Craving
• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1 Beseech the Mirror
• 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
• 1 Bitterblossom
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Bolas's Citadel
• 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1 Braids, Cabal Minion
• 1 Cabal Coffers
• 1 Chain of Smog
• 1 Chrome Mox
• 1 City of Traitors
• 1 Command Beacon
• 1 Contamination
• 1 Crucible of Worlds
• 1 Culling the Weak
• 1 Dark Confidant
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Deserted Temple
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled
• 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1 Drownyard Temple
• 1 Emergence Zone
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Force of Despair
• 1 Glacial Chasm
• 1 Gods' Eye, Gate to the Reikai
• 1 Gravecrawler
• 1 Grim Tutor
• 1 Imp's Mischief
• 1 Imperial Seal
• 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
• 1 Lake of the Dead
• 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1 Lotus Petal
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Mana Vault
• 1 Maralen of the Mornsong
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Maze of Ith
• 1 Mox Diamond
• 1 Mox Opal
• 1 Necropotence
• 1 Nether Void
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Ophiomancer
• 1 Opposition Agent
• 1 Phyrexian Altar
• 1 Phyrexian Tower
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Professor Onyx
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reassembling Skeleton
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Sedgemoor Witch
• 1 Sensei's Divining Top
• 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1 Smokestack
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Strip Mine
• 8 Swamp
• 1 Tainted Pact
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 Tower of the Magistrate
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Trinisphere
• 1 Unmarked Grave
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Urza's Cave
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Vault of Whispers
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 War Room
• 1 Warren Soultrader
• 1 Wasteland
• 1 Wishclaw Talisman
• 1 Withering Boon
• 1 Withering Torment
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat