Skittles, the Deathdealer

Commander / EDH Infect Mono-Black Voltron

DaWubber

Ramp (15)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Armillary Sphere
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Dowsing Dagger  ^Flip
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Staff of Compleation
• 1x Stonespeaker Crystal
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x The Irencrag
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Additional Counters Subtheme (6)

• 1x Contagion Engine
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Midnight Banshee
• 1x Peat Bog
• 1x Sword of Truth and Justice
• 1x Unspeakable Symbol

Burst Mana (6)

• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Lake of the Dead
• 1x Phyrexian Tower

Graveyard Removal (3)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Scavenger Grounds

Recursion (2)

• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Buried Ruin

Card Draw (13)

• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Diresight
• 1x Insatiable Avarice
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Promise of Power
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Throne of Eldraine
• 1x War Room

Voltron (10)

• 1x Ascendant Evincar
• 1x Blackblade Reforged
• 1x Bloodforged Battle-Axe
• 1x Commander's Plate
• 1x Fireshrieker
• 1x Hammer of Nazahn
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x O-Naginata
• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine

Board Wipes (3)

• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Phyrexian Scriptures
• 1x Vona's Hunger

Wincon (3)

• 1x Hatred
• 1x Lashwrithe
• 1x Nightmare Lash

Swamps (20)

• 19x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Commander (1)

Targeted Removal (11)

• 1x Accursed Marauder
• 1x Ashes to Ashes
• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Blighted Fen
• 1x Consuming Corruption
• 1x Defile
• 1x Drown in Ichor
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Murderous Rider
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Vraska, Betrayal's Sting

Protection (4)

• 1x Champion's Helm
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Evasion (3)

• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

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Sideboard

Other (1)

• 1x Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief

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Maybeboard

Other (1)

• 1x Withering Torment

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My super cool mono black Voltron deck, which uses either Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon or Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief to "commander damage" down opponents. Due to the fact a few people a feverently against playing across from the infect, I had to design the deck as Skithiryx as the only infect creature, with Drana taking center stage against particularly incensed players.

Being both 4/4 Flyers for 5, both of these creatures partially cross the Voltron hurdle requirement themselves by only requiring 10 damage from Skithiryx because of infect, or in Drana's case being able to pump herself to sometimes an absurd degree while shooting down flying blockers with burst mana from Bubbling Muck, Cabal Coffers, and Lake of the Dead. Burst mana also helps recast Skittles, as it will inevitably die many times in a game.

A pretty standard set of Voltron equipment can get us the rest of the way there, but a proliferate & +1/+1 counter subtheme plays really well with bother infect and voltron. Some of the better one's include Sword of Truth and Justice, which provides both protection and a power boost on top of adding and proliferating counters, and Unspeakable Symbol, which kind of acts like a back up Hatred in +1/+1 counter form. Throw in some control back up to keep the opponents off of you and we have ourselves some mono black Voltron beats.

Top Ranked	Achieved #30 position overall 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Infect 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Mono-Black 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Voltron 5 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	2 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 1 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.06
Tokens	City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Demon */* B, Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, On an Adventure, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Plant 0/2 G, Shapeshifter 3/2 C, Treasure
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