It's Not a Phage, Mom! >:0

Commander / EDH* Combo Jank Mono-Black Multiplayer Theme/Gimmick

Cranberryman

Value (23)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Diabolic Revelation
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Endless Atlas
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Greed
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Key to the City
• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Mastermind's Acquisition
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip
• 1x The Immortal Sun
• 1x Underworld Connections

What the Deck Wants to Do (8)

• 1x Endless Whispers
• 1x Lich's Mastery
• 1x Netherborn Altar
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Stunning Reversal
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Hate (19)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Cast Down
• 1x Dead of Winter
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Drag to the Underworld
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Heartless Act
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Murderous Rider
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Royal Assassin
• 1x Slaughter Pact
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Ultimate Price
• 1x Vraska's Contempt
• 1x Wretched Confluence

Ramp (13)

• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Leaden Myr
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Commander (1)

Lands (36)

• 1x Arch of Orazca
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Cryptic Caves
• 1x Desert of the Glorified
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 24x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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Maybeboard

Hate (2)

• 1x Lethal Vapors
• 1x Unstable Obelisk

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Step one: prevent yourself from losing the game with any of the following:

• Lich's Mastery
• Platinum Angel
• Sundial of the Infinite
• Stunning Reversal

Step two: play Phage the Untouchable

Step three: start killing opponents

Step three can be accomplished a few different ways. The easiest way to do this is to give Phage fear with Shizo, Death's Storehouse and suit her up with Lightning Greaves. You can also give her a Whispersilk Cloak or Rogue's Passage activation to render her unblockable, but you'll usually have to wait another turn to swing with her due to shroud. An essential card that is not pictured in this list for budget reasons is Hall of the Bandit Lord. I would strongly recommend playing that one.

My favorite way to kill with Phage is with Endless Whispers. This deck has (approximately) one million kill spells, and you can cast one on Phage to give her to an opponent, who will most likely immediately lose. If you're in a one-on-one, you can actually kill them with your own "lose the game" trigger still on the stack. Just follow a line like

1. Phage the Untouchable enters the battlefield
2. Cast Ultimate Price in response to her trigger on the stack
3. Phage dies and you choose to send her to the graveyard, triggering Endless Whispers
4. She comes into play on your opponent's side and the only triggers left on the stack are them losing the game before you

It should be noted that Phage makes a decent monoblack stax commander, but I purposely avoided going that route. If you want to spike her out a bit, I'd add Torpor Orb (which combos nicely with Phage as it is), Lethal Vapors (which also combos with Endless Whispers), Withering Boon, and possibly Contamination.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.34
Tokens	City's Blessing, Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, On an Adventure