Gettin' Away with Murder

Commander / EDH* Aristocrats Attrition Combo Control Magecraft Mono-Black Morbid Multiplayer Sacrifice Spellslinger

DareiJuxis

Instant (32)

• 1x Armor of Shadows
• 1x Bitter Triumph
• 1x Blood Pact
• 1x Crypt Incursion
• 1x Defile
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Erebos's Intervention
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Hatred
• 1x Heartless Act
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Infernal Grasp
• 1x Insidious Dreams
• 1x Lethal Scheme
• 1x Liliana's Triumph
• 1x Malicious Affliction
• 1x Offer Immortality
• 1x Power Word Kill
• 1x Sheoldred's Edict
• 1x Soul Shatter
• 1x Succumb to Temptation
• 1x Suffer the Past
• 1x Szat's Will
• 1x Thrilling Encore
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x V.A.T.S.
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Victim of Night
• 1x Vona's Hunger
• 1x Without Weakness
• 1x Wretched Confluence

Land (35)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Desert of the Glorified
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Hagra Broodpit  ^Flip
• 1x Malakir Mire  ^Flip
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 9x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Terrain Generator
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x War Room

Artifact (11)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of the Animist

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Professor Onyx

Commander (1)

Creature (12)

• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
• 1x Kaervek, the Punisher
• 1x Kamber, the Plunderer
• 1x Morbid Opportunist
• 1x Raven of Fell Omens
• 1x Sedgemoor Witch
• 1x Sheoldred  ^Flip
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Vashta Nerada

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Pestilence
• 1x The Meathook Massacre

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Chain of Smog
• 1x Make an Example
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Toxic Deluge

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Maybeboard

Instant (4)

• 1x Crushing Disappointment
• 1x Outrageous Robbery
• 1x Spoils of Evil
• 1x Withering Boon

Creature (2)

• 1x Gisa, the Hellraiser
• 1x Infernal Sovereign

Land (1)

• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

Artifact (2)

• 1x Glamdring
• 1x Mesmeric Orb

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Hands down Toshiro Umezawa has always been my favorite Mono-Black commander. I love the unique spellslinger style he has in a color usually devoted to creatures or aristocrats, while maintaining the graveyard synergies. The goal is fairly simple: kill anything that threatens us as much as possible until a combo can be turned on. To facilitate this there are several kill spells as well as a good amount of protection for our commander.

The paths to winning are

Aetherflux Reservoir + Bolas's Citadel + Sensei's Divining Top - Laserbeams.

Chain of Smog + Professor Onyx - Infinite Drain

Torment of Hailfire- Drain

Syr Konrad, the Grim- Draining out opponents thanks to the kill spells leaving the graveyard after Toshiro's ability resolves, and the creatures themselves dying.

Hatred- Swoll Samurai

Mindcrank+Bloodchief Ascension- Infinite damage and/or Mill.

Maybeboard?

Expedition Map- Nongreen way to find an important land such as Field of the Dead, Cabal Coffers, or Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Mesmeric Orb-Could effectively draw our cards so long as Toshiro Umezawa is out, while ridding more of our opponent's threats passively. Or, it could nuke all of our win cons....Still, a favorite of mine.

Spoils of Evil- If more Mill is acquired or if the opponents are creature/artifact heavy, this could ramp us into a big Torment of Hailfire without being conspicuous.

Feel free to make suggestions, and thanks for taking a look anyway! And yes, that song is in my head...

Date added	3 years
Last updated	8 months
Key combos	Aetherflux Reservoir + Bolas's Citadel + Sensei's Divining Top Chain of Smog + Professor Onyx
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.78
Tokens	Blood, City's Blessing, Pest 1/1 BG, Shapeshifter 3/2 C, Spirit 1/1 C, Thrull 0/1 B, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B