The Scorpion King

Commander / EDH

zackeleit

Land (39)

• 1x Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Foreboding Ruins
• 1x Grasping Dunes
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^Meld
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Shadowblood Ridge
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Peak
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Instant (6)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Puncture Blast
• 1x Slaughter Pact
• 1x Terminate

Creature (27)

• 1x Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1x Banewhip Punisher
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Carnifex Demon
• 1x Corrosive Mentor
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Doomed Necromancer
• 1x Dusk Urchins
• 1x Flayer of the Hatebound
• 1x Geralf's Messenger
• 1x Harbinger of Night
• 1x Isareth the Awakener
• 1x Kulrath Knight
• 1x Merciless Javelineer
• 1x Midnight Banshee
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Necropede
• 1x Necroskitter
• 1x Ogre Battledriver
• 1x Plague Myr
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Shambling Swarm
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Stigma Lasher
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Behold the Beyond
• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Diabolic Revelation
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Incremental Blight

Commander (1)

Artifact (11)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Whip of Erebos
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Blowfly Infestation
• 1x Crumbling Ashes
• 1x Everlasting Torment
• 1x Fevered Convulsions
• 1x Nest of Scarabs
• 1x Traveling Plague
• 1x War's Toll

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Sideboard

Land (10)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Ifnir Deadlands
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 1x Lake of the Dead
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Ramunap Ruins
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Sneak Attack

Instant (1)

• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Creature (1)

• 1x Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon

Artifact (1)

• 1x Chrome Mox

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Maybeboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip

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The purpose of this deck is to have a unique way of black control. You control the board state with -1 -1 counters and outlets with creative removal based on those counters in addition to black's great variety of spot and board-wide removal.

There are a few combos in the deck that allow you to end a game that seems to be taking too long or as an answer to someone else that may be combo-ing off before you. Some combos also benefit from other play styles that may be present. There are linear paths in place for win conditions and other dynamic paths that allow you to be creative in how you win without combos or infinite plays.

NOTE: The side board are cards that I have not purchased yet. The main deck is what I physically, and currently, have built.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	WUG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 5 Mythic Rares 42 - 9 Rares 29 - 2 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.61
Tokens	Insect 1/1 B