Braids, Cabal Minion by user1853562

Format: Commander

Commander: Braids, Cabal Minion

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This mono-black deck is helmed by Braids, Cabal Minion and focuses on suffocating opponents through asymmetric resource denial and attrition. The primary strategy involves deploying resilient, low-cost sacrifice fodder—such as Ophiomancer, Dreadhorde Invasion, and Reassembling Skeleton—before casting Braids on Turn 4. Once Braids resolves, she forces each player to sacrifice an artifact, creature, or land on their upkeep. Because this list continually generates disposable tokens and recurs creatures from the graveyard, it easily absorbs the sacrifice cost while opponents are forced to sacrifice critical lands and early board development. Opponents are steadily starved of mana and unable to cast their high-impact spells. The deck slowly converts this hard lock into a win via aristocrat drain effects like Bastion of Remembrance, Nadier's Nightblade, and Syr Konrad, the Grim, supplemented by steady chip damage from Zombie and Bat tokens.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Braids, Cabal Minion
  • 1 Cadaver Imp
  • 1 Callous Bloodmage
  • 1 Carrier Thrall
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Chittering Witch
  • 1 Consuming Corruption
  • 1 Cult Conscript
  • 1 Defiler of Flesh
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Doomed Dissenter
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Dunes of the Dead
  • 1 Dusk Legion Zealot
  • 1 Dutiful Attendant
  • 1 Falkenrath Noble
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Ghoulish Procession
  • 1 Gravelighter
  • 1 Greedy Freebooter
  • 1 Haunt of the Dead Marshes
  • 1 Homicide Investigator
  • 1 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Innocent Blood
  • 1 Innocuous Rat
  • 1 Kamber, the Plunderer
  • 1 Leaden Myr
  • 1 Manakin
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Moonstone Eulogist
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Mycosynth Wellspring
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Necrotic Hex
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Recover
  • 1 Sifter of Skulls
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sinkhole Surveyor
  • 1 Skullport Merchant
  • 1 Skyclave Shade
  • 1 Sling-Gang Lieutenant
  • 1 Smallpox
  • 1 Smokestack
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawning Bed
  • 32 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Flesh
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Taste of Death
  • 1 The Eldest Reborn
  • 1 Treasure Dredger
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Vat of Rebirth
  • 1 Vindictive Vampire
  • 1 Voldaren Bloodcaster // Bloodbat Summoner
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Woe Strider