Ardyn Demon Daddy by MisbegottenFool

Format: Commander

Commander: Ardyn, the Usurper

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This mono-black strategy combines big-mana acceleration, graveyard reanimation, and Demon tribal synergies to overwhelm the table. Early turns focus on filling the graveyard using Entomb or Buried Alive while deploying mana doublers like Crypt Ghast and Cabal Coffers. Midgame turns leverage efficient reanimation spells such as Reanimate and Living Death to cheat terrifying threats like Vilis, Broker of Blood and Valgavoth, Terror Eater onto the battlefield ahead of curve. Once you cast Ardyn, the Usurper, your demonic army gains haste, menace, and lifelink while converting fallen creatures into additional 5/5 Demon tokens. Games end through overwhelming aerial combat, an explosive Exsanguinate, or Liliana's Contract.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Burning-Rune Demon
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Caged Sun
  • 1 Crippling Fear
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Dark Dabbling
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Demonlord Belzenlok
  • 1 Embodiment of Agonies
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Harvester of Souls
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Kothophed, Soul Hoarder
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana's Contract
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Void
  • 1 Magus of the Coffers
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Meteor Golem
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nirkana Revenant
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tribute
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rot-Curse Rakshasa
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Sower of Discord
  • 1 Stinging Study
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 33 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of Sinew and Steel
  • 1 The Speed Demon
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Throne of Eldraine
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Vona's Hunger
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Withering Torment