[Primer] Drain-a w/ Budget Options

Commander / EDH Discard Mono-Black Ramp Voltron

Dudeguy92man

Ramp (24)

• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Doubling Cube
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Worn Powerstone
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Liliana's Shade
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Skirge Familiar
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Nirkana Revenant

Draw (7)

• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Promise of Power
• 1x Peer into the Abyss
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood

Other (15)

• 1x Tainted Strike
• 1x Vorpal Sword
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Soldevi Adnate
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Ophiomancer
• 1x Lashwrithe
• 1x Mindslicer
• 1x Phyrexian Obliterator
• 1x Whip of Erebos
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Hatred
• 1x K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

Tutor (9)

• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Wishclaw Talisman
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Revelation
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon

Removal (6)

• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Oubliette
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood

Commander (1)

Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 27x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vesuva

Big (8)

• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Diabolic Revelation
• 1x Promise of Power
• 1x Cabal Conditioning
• 1x Peer into the Abyss
• 1x Myojin of Night's Reach
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood

Reanimate (3)

• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Whip of Erebos

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Sideboard

Other (4)

• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Pestilence
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Pestilence Demon

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Maybeboard

Draw (12)

• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Null Profusion
• 1x Baleful Force
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

Other (7)

• 1x Nantuko Shade
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Evernight Shade
• 1x Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed
• 1x Gift of Doom
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Sorin Markov

Reanimate (3)

• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms

Ramp (12)

• 1x Peat Bog
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Liquimetal Torque
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

Tutor (4)

• 1x Dimir Machinations
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Liliana Vess

Land (3)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Peat Bog
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse

Big (9)

• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 1x Lord of the Void
• 1x Necromantic Selection
• 1x Baleful Force
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Worst Fears
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

Removal (9)

• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Murderous Rider
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Necromantic Selection
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Dread Cacodemon

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Introduction

Timmy's two favorite things
Big mana
Big plays
...but then there's tutors and mass card draw and mana calculating, things to keep you engaged

Hey squad, if you look through this collection give me a comment, I've been updating this deck for over 7 years and want help to keep morphing it into the best casual Drana deck it can be. I most recently 10/18/21 cut a discard subtheme with Tergrid, God of Fright   out. It was hard to pull off and slowed the games down, rather than advance them forwards. I kept the big discard cards and replaced everything else with voltron and ramp things. That has really changed the feel of the deck and has really brought it together.

How to Play

Tim's Checklist
1. Land Ramp
2. Double Mana
3. Draw Deck
4. Double Mana Again
With your excessive mana
- Eat everything with Drana
- Cast a huge Exsanguinate and Torment of Hailfire

Tim Runs Outta Time

- Tutor
   ~Dimir Machinations is Extraplanar Lens, Sculpting Steel, Necropotence, or Ophiomancer~
- Discard every one's hand
- Draw your deck early and discard most of it then Reanimate Nirkana Revenant
- Gain Life

Opponent's Creatures are Scary

-Eat them with Drana
Have them attack some one else by casting these guys
- Ophiomancer
- Mindslicer
- Phyrexian Obliterator

Opponent is Scary

- Eat them with Drana
- Take their turn for them
- Surprise kill them with Tainted Strike or Hatred
- Look non threatening
   ~Don't cast your Doubling Cube until you can murk em

Opponents Have too Much Removal

-Tutor up that Imp's Mischief and leave some mana open
-Reanimate your doublers
-Commander Tax doesn't matter look how much mana I have
-Ask them politely to remove something else

Testimonies

"One time I had two doublers in play then Sculpting Steeled my Doubling Cube, boy was that fun" ~Cliff TFTW

"I once took the first opponent out with Hatred on turn four, another one with Tainted Strike on turn 5, and then casted Worst Fears on turn 6. Ez game ez life." ~Dudeguy92man

"The land clones usually turn into snow swamps to benefit the doublers, however having 3 Cabal Coffers, with an Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth gets pretty ugly and it's totally worth losing some swamps to have that be possible" ~Zach C.

Budget

Decks not cheap, however many of the cards are pretty easily replaced
These cards are all available with a gold border
- Hatred
- Necropotence
- Ancient Tomb
- Bloodstained Mire - Cut
Replacements
- Imp's Mischief - I don't actually cast this often
- Damnation - Plenty of black board wipes
- Deadly Rollick - Defile or Tragic Slip
- Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, and Grim Tutor - Plenty of other tutor options in black
- Phyrexian Obliterator and Ophiomancer - something with deathtouch Vampire Nighthawk
- Doubling Cube - is pretty important, I might ball out for this
- Mana Crypt and Extraplanar Lens - Dreamstone Hedron and Hedron Archive, cut the snow lands
- Exquisite Blood - Pontiff of Blight
- Reanimate and Necromancy - Dread Return and Victimize
- Liliana of the Dark Realms - anything with value, or Pilgrim's Eye
- Vesuva - cut
- Cabal Coffers and Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth - Toss the Basalt Monolith + Rings of Brighthearth combo. Cabal Stronghold is better when you run mostly basics too

These cuts and changes puts the deck to under 200$, and it doesn't make it awful

As always, this is a work in progress. If you have any comments or suggestions, concerns, questions... Post away! Your feedback will be greatly appreciated, even if it sucks.

Date added	12 years
Last updated	2 years
Key combos	Basalt Monolith + Rings of Brighthearth
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 1 Mythic Rares 35 - 1 Rares 21 - 1 Uncommons 11 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.44
Tokens	Demon */* B, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Snake 1/1 B
Folders	EDH