Deliberate Denial of Death to the Dead

Commander / EDH* Combo Control Mono-Black Primer Reanimator Sacrifice Stax

SomeDipshit

Creature (30)

• 1x Blood Pet
• 1x Dockside Chef
• 1x Scorn-Blade Berserker
• 1x Snarling Gorehound
• 1x Thoughtpicker Witch
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Elvish Doomsayer
• 1x Hedron Crawler
• 1x Leaden Myr
• 1x Myr Retriever
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Plague Myr
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Soldevi Adnate
• 1x Soulless Jailer
• 1x Yarok's Fenlurker
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat
• 1x Activated Sleeper
• 1x Big Game Hunter
• 1x Bone Shredder
• 1x Coffin Queen
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Scarecrone
• 1x Scrap Trawler
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Karn, the Great Creator

Land (35)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Blinkmoth Nexus
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Lake of the Dead
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Strip Mine
• 15x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Attrition
• 1x Contamination
• 1x Mind Slash
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Dictate of Erebos

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Bitter Ordeal
• 1x Death Cloud
• 1x Living Death

Commander (1)

Artifact (17)

• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Pyre of Heroes
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Winter Orb
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Desecrated Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Static Orb
• 1x Smokestack

Instant (4)

• 1x Entomb
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Mausoleum Secrets
• 1x Thrilling Encore

---

Sideboard

Artifact (13)

• 1x Candelabra of Tawnos
• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Conqueror's Flail
• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Kormus Bell
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Worldslayer
• 1x Akroma's Memorial
• 1x Possessed Portal
• 1x Darksteel Forge

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Infernal Darkness

Instant (1)

• 1x Imp's Mischief

Creature (1)

• 1x Bloodthrone Vampire

---

Maybeboard

Creature (10)

• 1x Heap Doll
• 1x Abyssal Gatekeeper
• 1x Basal Thrull
• 1x Mesmeric Fiend
• 1x Thrull Surgeon
• 1x Opaline Unicorn
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Rug of Smothering
• 1x Scaretiller
• 1x Tree of Perdition

---

Deliberate Denial of Death to the Dead

Creatures

They're not important! They're very important!

Each creature is an insufficient but necessary part of an unnecessarily sufficient system: There are a bunch of creatures that work well together to oppress your opponents, but you don't need any one creature in any case. That is, except Shirei, who is very important.

Cards

Necropotence, Skullclamp (its worth the cards, really!), Grim Haruspex, Culling Dais

Sacrifice Creatures --> Get Cards, yay

Control

Play on other people's turns using Shirei's ability, and harass everyone and anyone by pressuring hands and libraries.

Thoughtpicker Witch is {X}, Sacrifice X Creatures: Look at the top X + 1 cards of an opponent's library and exile X of them. Incredibly powerful stuff!

Contamination: you know what to do

Attrition and Mind Slash -- absolutely savage

Elvish Doomsayer et al., for forcing discard on every turn they are returned.

Win Conditions

Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed gives you infinite (sorcery speed) deaths and resurrections with either Living Death or Thrilling Encore.

Nether Traitor with either Pawn of Ulamog or Desecrated Tomb will do this at instant speed. Note on Desecrated Tomb: Shirei's trigger is per creature -- many bats for you.

Bitter Ordeal for 20+ (or infinite, who gives a shit)

Zulaport Cutthroat

Death Cloud for N - 1 where N is the number of creatures you control when it resolves.

Top Ranked	Achieved #29 position overall 8 years ago
Date added	11 years
Last updated	1 month
Exclude colors	WURG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 5 Mythic Rares 43 - 10 Rares 23 - 1 Uncommons 13 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.35
Tokens	Bat 1/1 B, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Morph 2/2 C, Treasure
Folders	EDH, EDH Options, Favorite 3rd party decks, ?, Watch, EDH Ideas, Awesome decks, Deck Ideas, mono black, taco cat