A Life Well Spent

Commander / EDH Casual Discard Mono-Black Reanimator

Aqveteig

Discard (13)

• 1x Arterial Flow
• 1x Burglar Rat
• 1x Gibbering Descent
• 1x Herald of Anguish
• 1x Liliana's Specter
• 1x Mind Rake
• 1x Necrogen Mists
• 1x Rotting Rats
• 1x Scythe Specter
• 1x Stronghold Rats
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x The Haunt of Hightower
• 1x Vicious Rumors

Removal (11)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Defile
• 1x Demon of Dark Schemes
• 1x Font of Agonies
• 1x Malicious Affliction
• 1x Murderous Rider
• 1x Never / Return
• 1x Overseer of the Damned
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Vona's Hunger
• 1x Vraska's Contempt

Graveyard-Filler (7)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Gibbering Descent
• 1x Mind Rake
• 1x Moonlight Bargain
• 1x Necrogen Mists
• 1x Tortured Existence

Finisher (3)

• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Madness (2)

• 1x Asylum Visitor
• 1x Gibbering Descent

Draw (13)

• 1x Asylum Visitor
• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Dark Prophecy
• 1x Foreboding Fruit
• 1x Indulgent Tormentor
• 1x Moonlight Bargain
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood
• 1x Waste Not

Ramp (10)

• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Star Compass
• 1x Waste Not

Recursion (9)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Demon of Dark Schemes
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Ever After
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Tortured Existence
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Discard-Synergy (2)

• 1x The Haunt of Hightower
• 1x Waste Not

Other (1)

• 1x Hunted Horror

Commander (1)

Lifegain (13)

• 1x Arterial Flow
• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Foreboding Fruit
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Murderous Rider
• 1x Pontiff of Blight
• 1x The Haunt of Hightower
• 1x Thrull Parasite

Boardwipe (7)

• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Midnight Banshee
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Plague Wind
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Vona's Hunger

Land (34)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 30x Swamp
• 1x Witch's Cottage

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Maybeboard

Other (37)

• 1x Clackbridge Troll
• 1x Curse of the Cabal
• 1x Dead of Winter
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Sea Gate Wreckage
• 30x Snow-Covered Swamp

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K'rrik mono black, discard and graveyard recursion. Spend life, cheat mana cost, destroy your opponent's hands, drain their life and reanimate ungodly creatures to tourment them. A slow death await your foes, no quick combo shall hasten the path to their demise. To stay casual, no infinite combo, no tutor.

This deck capitalise on K'rrik ramping abilities to overwhelm the opponents in amount and spell potency way earlier they should have been. This allow to diversify our strategy and open the field for preamptive control strategies. Thanks to K'rrik, we are less suceptible to graveyard hate and can fall back to playing fair magic the phyrexian way if we cannot get our creatures in the graveyard.

Our first battle plan is to control what the opponent can do by making them discard cards. Many creatures have asymetrical discard effects, Scythe Specter and Herald of Anguish are the two most prominent Discard on stick. Some symetrical effect will also allow us to discard expensive creatures in the graveyard for revival later on. Those are in the form of creatures can chump block and be revived like Miasmic Mummy. Repeatable draw on sticks allow us to gain another incremental advantage out of the discard strategy. Then, the few removal spells and the many bardwipe and boardwipe like effect will make sure creatures will not come for our throat.

Then, we want to reanimate big creatures. Although we aren't as proeminent on ways to put creatures in the graveyard, playing a mix of ETB chump blockers and powerful creatures with ongoing effect will force our opponent to put our creatures in the graveyard for us. Demon of Dark Schemes is sneakingly our best creature of this category as it can kill on ETB many of the 2 CMC creatures with ETB-discard and let us revive them later on.

Last, we have the indispensible life draining effects to continue spending life for mana. Extort is a powerful effect with K'rrik in a 4 player pod as we can pay 2 life to activate it and get 3 life back. Exsanguinate, Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Kokusho, the Evening Star are huge life draining effect that will turn the tide of battle on the spot. Bloodchief Ascension is a powerhouse as well. It triggers on discard, removal and opponents casting spells.

Card to replace:
(Owned) --> (To Buy)
Coalition Relic --> Jet Medallion
28 Basic Swamp --> 30 Snow Swamp
Plague Winds --> Dead of Winter (if snow swamp added)
1 Swamp --> Nyktos, Shrine to Nyx
1 Swamp --> Sea Gate Wreckage
Gibberinhg Descent --> Painful Quandary
Hunted Horror --> Curse of the cabal
Asylum Visitor --> Clackbridge Troll

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Exclude colors	WURG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 32 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.44
Tokens	Centaur 3/3 G w/ Pro Black, City's Blessing, Energy Reserve, Food, On an Adventure, Zombie 2/2 B