All Around Me Are Familiar Faces

Commander / EDH Mono-Black

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Creature (38)

• 1x Big Game Hunter
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Cadaver Imp
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Deathgreeter
• 1x Demon of Death's Gate
• 1x Dutiful Attendant
• 1x Fang Skulkin
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Heap Doll
• 1x Hell's Caretaker
• 1x Junk Diver
• 1x Leaden Myr
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip
• 1x Lord of the Void
• 1x Mindless Automaton
• 1x Mortician Beetle
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Myr Sire
• 1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
• 1x Ogre Slumlord
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Perilous Myr
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Plagued Rusalka
• 1x Qarsi Sadist
• 1x Reaper from the Abyss
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Scarecrone
• 1x Scavenger Drake
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Skirsdag High Priest
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Sorceress Queen
• 1x Viscera Seer

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Sorin Markov

Land (35)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x High Market
• 1x Miren, the Moaning Well
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 22x Swamp
• 1x Temple of the False God

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Night of Souls' Betrayal
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Vampiric Rites

Artifact (11)

• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Lightning Coils
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Orbs of Warding
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spawning Pit *list*
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Unstable Obelisk
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Instant (2)

• 1x Malicious Affliction
• 1x Tragic Slip

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Barter in Blood
• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Killing Wave
• 1x Mutilate

Commander (1)

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(Built with help from edhrec.com!)

A test build of a deck I built when I became oddly enchanted by Shirei. Seeing as Shirei only brings back creatures with 1 or less power, and given that his name is "Caretaker", I started imagining him doting over a bunch of little weenies like they're at a nursery and I was so charmed by the idea. So I made it a mission to make a deck based around the idea of generating small, incremental value via sacrifice and triggers.

The mindset of the deck is meant to be "Leave me be, I'm just doing my own little thing, I'm not hurting nobody". As a result, the deck has a hard and fast rule - no board locks, no drastic interferences with other people's board states. "Sac a creature: Kill a creature" is perfectly allowed, and having ways to give -negative/-negative to enemies is fine, but things like Grave Pact, Dictate of Erebos, and Butcher of Malakir are NOT WANTED HERE. This deck wants to generate small values for itself, not oppressive chokeholds on opponents.

I really wanted to include about ten Shadowborn Apostles but I don't have room for them. If I can find ten cards to cut, I might try to make them work, because my entire top end is threatening Demons and that was not an accident.

Oh, also upon initial testing I find this deck probably needs more lands. I'd say about 2-3 more lands. Probably just Swamps. No idea what to cut yet.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.31
Tokens	2/2 C Artifact Creature Spawn, Demon 5/5 B, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Elemental 3/1 R, Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Goat 0/1 W, Morph 2/2 C, Phyrexian Myr 1/1 C, Rat 1/1 B, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	EDH