Curse Xantcha

Commander / EDH* BR (Rakdos) Theme/Gimmick

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Land (36)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Foreboding Ruins
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x High Market
• 1x Island of Wak-Wak
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Cruel Entertainment
• 1x Disrupt Decorum
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Sickening Dreams
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Vandalblast

Enchantment (18)

• 1x Bedlam
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Braid of Fire
• 1x Captive Audience
• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Errantry
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Pestilence
• 1x Phyrexian Scriptures
• 1x Price of Knowledge
• 1x Pyrohemia
• 1x Repercussion
• 1x Stolen Strategy
• 1x Treacherous Link
• 1x Visions of Brutality
• 1x Vow of Lightning
• 1x Vow of Malice

Artifact (14)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Crown of Doom
• 1x Cryptolith Fragment  ^Flip
• 1x Doubling Cube
• 1x Heartstone
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Tawnos's Coffin
• 1x Thought Vessel

Commander (1)

Instant (17)

• 1x Bedevil
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Curtains' Call
• 1x Electrodominance
• 1x Fateful Showdown
• 1x Fork
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Grip of Desolation
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Murder
• 1x Price of Fame
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Unlicensed Disintegration
• 1x Warping Wail
• 1x Wild Ricochet
• 1x Word of Seizing

Creature (7)

• 1x Neheb, the Eternal
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Reiver Demon
• 1x Stuffy Doll
• 1x Tree of Perdition
• 1x Twilight Prophet
• 1x Walking Atlas

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Sideboard

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Besmirch
• 1x Cannibalize
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Dreadbore
• 1x Duress
• 1x Infernal Offering
• 1x Languish
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Mind Twist
• 1x Rakdos's Return
• 1x Repay in Kind
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Thoughtseize
• 1x Void

Creature (1)

• 1x Sleeper Agent

Instant (13)

• 1x Arcbond
• 1x Backlash
• 1x Defile
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Lightning Storm
• 1x Magnetic Theft
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Reverberate
• 1x Undying Evil
• 1x Vona's Hunger

Land (1)

• 1x Homeward Path

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Curse of Bloodletting
• 1x Curse of Disturbance
• 1x Fists of the Demigod
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Mana Flare
• 1x Polluted Bonds
• 1x Seismic Assault
• 1x Stranglehold
• 1x Unspeakable Symbol

Artifact (5)

• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip

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Maybeboard

Creature (59)

• 1x Accursed Witch  ^Flip
• 1x Archfiend of Despair
• 1x Azra Oddsmaker
• 1x Bazaar Trader
• 1x Bearer of the Heavens
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Captivating Crew
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Demon of Dark Schemes
• 1x Diaochan, Artful Beauty
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Emissary of Grudges
• 1x Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Fate Unraveler
• 1x Fetid Imp
• 1x Fumiko the Lowblood
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Grenzo, Havoc Raiser
• 1x Harsh Mentor
• 1x Heartless Hidetsugu
• 1x Herald of Anguish
• 1x Herald of Leshrac
• 1x Humble Defector
• 1x Indulgent Tormentor
• 1x Kaervek the Merciless
• 1x Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
• 1x Knight of the Ebon Legion
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Malakir Familiar
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Moriok Replica
• 1x Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
• 1x Nirkana Revenant
• 1x Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
• 1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
• 1x Palladium Myr
• 1x Patron of the Vein
• 1x Pestilence Demon
• 1x Rancid Rats
• 1x Royal Assassin
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Scythe Specter
• 1x Seizan, Perverter of Truth
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Sin Prodder
• 1x Sire Of Insanity
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Sower of Discord
• 1x Starke of Rath
• 1x Typhoid Rats
• 1x Vampire Nighthawk
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood
• 1x Warmonger Hellkite
• 1x Zealous Conscripts
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Enchantment (47)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Baneful Omen
• 1x Bedlam
• 1x Bitter Feud
• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Blood Reckoning
• 1x Citadel of Pain
• 1x Contamination
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Dictate of the Twin Gods
• 1x Font of Agonies
• 1x Form of the Dragon
• 1x Furnace of Rath
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Grisly Transformation
• 2x Havoc Festival
• 1x Hissing Miasma
• 1x Koskun Falls
• 1x Leyline of Combustion
• 1x Lich's Mastery
• 1x Mana Flare
• 1x Marchesa's Decree
• 1x Mark of the Oni
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Pain Magnification
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Possibility Storm
• 1x Price of Glory
• 1x Pyromancy
• 1x Retreat to Hagra
• 2x Revel in Riches
• 1x Rite of the Raging Storm
• 1x Seal of Doom
• 1x Spiteful Visions
• 1x Subversion
• 1x Theater of Horrors
• 1x Vicious Shadows
• 1x Waste Not
• 1x Words of Waste
• 1x Wound Reflection

Land (11)

• 1x Arch of Orazca
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Lake of the Dead
• 2x Lotus Field
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace
• 1x Rocky Tar Pit
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Temple of Malice

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Angrath, the Flame-Chained
• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath
• 1x Sorin Markov

Artifact (27)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Ankh of Mishra
• 1x Anvil of Bogardan
• 2x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Assault Suit
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Candelabra of Tawnos
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Icy Manipulator
• 1x Jinxed Choker
• 1x Key to the City
• 1x Mindslaver
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Power Matrix
• 1x Rakdos Cluestone
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Venser's Journal
• 1x Victory Chimes

Sorcery (24)

• 1x Ashes to Ashes
• 1x Befoul
• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Captain's Call
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Chainer's Edict
• 1x Finale of Promise
• 1x Fraying Omnipotence
• 2x Harmless Offering
• 1x Hellfire
• 1x Last One Standing
• 1x Mogg Infestation
• 1x Pox
• 1x Promise of Power
• 1x Ruination
• 1x Skull Rend
• 1x Syphon Life
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Wheel of Fortune
• 1x Worst Fears
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Instant (6)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Delirium
• 1x Fated Return
• 1x Rain of Filth
• 1x Snuff Out

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Install the sleeper agent, misdirect your opponents efforts, curse your enemies in spite, and when the timing is right, Ascend as Bloodchief Xantcha. Underhanded theme.

Another way to win is to Fateful Showdown / Sickening Dreams with all the draw.

I tried to keep instants over sorceries, as you can use Xantcha at the end step before your turn. I generally avoid tutors, but Sculpting Steel on Heartstone makes it tempting.

Errantry rude on Xantcha, stops all their other creatures from attacking.

Deck I liked: https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/xantcha-pestilence-agent/

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 3 Mythic Rares 53 - 22 Rares 25 - 10 Uncommons 7 - 8 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.34
Tokens	City's Blessing, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Gold, Zombie 2/2 B