I'm a Sacs Machine

Commander / EDH Control Cruel Control Mono-Black

PuppetSoul

BasicLand (21)

• 21x Swamp

Control (16)

• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Helldozer
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Midnight Banshee
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Myojin of Night's Reach
• 1x Overwhelming Forces
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Visara the Dreadful

Draw (7)

• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Syphon Mind

Finish (5)

• 1x Consume Spirit
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sorin Markov
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

Lifegain (3)

• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Pontiff of Blight

Ramp (23)

• 1x Black Market
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Millikin
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nirkana Revenant
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vesuva
• 1x Wild-Field Scarecrow
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Recur (12)

• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Corpse Dance
• 1x Dawn of the Dead
• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 1x Grim Harvest
• 1x Oversold Cemetery
• 1x Palace Siege
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Soul of Innistrad
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Wake the Dead

SacOutlet (2)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Ghoulcaller Gisa

Shenanigans (1)

• 1x Winding Canyons

SilverBullet (9)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Dark Impostor
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Sudden Spoiling

Commander (1)

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Sideboard

Other (6)

• 1x Contamination
• 1x Corrupt
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath
• 1x Tendrils of Corruption
• 1x Thief of Blood

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Sac and Recur with a Big Mana finish.

Struggles slightly early game due to the lack of impactful 2/3 drops and lots of colorless producing lands.

Sideboard is just stuff I've been testing: most are cards that I ran in the deck while tweaking, but was never satisfied with having out.

Contamination: Salt.
There are three situations that occur when Contamination comes out, but regardless of which happens you immediately acquire the entire board for aggro; then either your Contamination gets spotted, your board state gets overwhelmed, or you had such a commanding board state through earlier control dominance that it just becomes a salted-win card and you should've been running something to close the game out instead.

Geth: Ineffective.
Whatever is putting the artifacts in the graveyard is probably something black can't deal with, so in order to be more efficient than running whatever that one artifact he'll fetch from the graveyard was, you need to be chasing a bad plan.

Merciless Executioner: Redundant.
Already have a Fleshbag if you're looking to fetch-sac-and-recur to clean up a difficult board to interact with. No point having two except against facebeaters since they're less effective than Gisa otherwise.

Nezumi: Redundant.
Takes a combo to flip unless she's out early, and the card needed to combo takes care of her purpose.

Ob Nix: Niche.
Good sub in if you know your opponents are going to shut down your Ashnod's or mutual-sac enchantments (ex: anything running W/G).

Reiver Demon: Niche.
Swap in for Grave Pact if one of the enemy commanders is Sigarda Host of Herons. Nothing else will keep enough bodies on the board to make this guy more useful than Visara.

Tendrils: Niche.
Voltron facebeaters, meet counterswing.

Thief of Blood: Niche.
Fetching this out turns planeswalker commanders into a salt mine.
Sac-and-recur at instant speed also effectively shuts down Claw of Progress, Cathar's Crusade, and many other cheese strategies.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Exclude colors	WURG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 1 Mythic Rares 47 - 1 Rares 16 - 3 Uncommons 4 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.58
Tokens	Demon 5/5 B, Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Emblem Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath, Zombie 2/2 B