Chainer, my pet deck

Commander / EDH*

Gekori

Creature (35)

• 1x Abhorrent Overlord
• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Bloodthrone Vampire
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Disciple of Griselbrand
• 1x Dross Harvester
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Graveborn Muse
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Midnight Banshee
• 1x Mindslicer
• 1x Mogis's Marauder
• 1x Nirkana Revenant
• 1x Pontiff of Blight
• 1x Sangromancer
• 1x Shadowborn Demon
• 1x Slum Reaper
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Thought Gorger
• 1x Undercity Informer
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Xathrid Demon

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Karn Liberated

Land (37)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 30x Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vesuva

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Dark Prophecy
• 1x Dawn of the Dead
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Underworld Connections

Artifact (15)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Druidic Satchel
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Loxodon Warhammer
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Phyrexian Totem
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Sword of Body and Mind
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Blood Tribute
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Life's Finale
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Mutilate

Commander (1)

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Maybeboard

Creature (23)

• 1x Ascendant Evincar
• 1x Baleful Force
• 1x Bloodline Keeper  ^Flip
• 1x Chancellor of the Dross
• 1x Corpse Connoisseur
• 1x Corrosive Mentor
• 1x Crypt Rats
• 1x Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Indulgent Tormentor
• 1x Kagemaro, First to Suffer
• 1x Kheru Bloodsucker
• 1x Lord of the Void
• 1x Ogre Slumlord
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Soldevi Adnate
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Void Maw
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Sorin Markov

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Necromancer's Stockpile

Artifact (4)

• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Sorcery (3)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Praetor's Grasp

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I had this deck longer than I had any deck. Most of the maybe board are cards that used to be in the deck, but I took out to try some new ones. I've tried to take out all fetch that doesn't just get swamps.

The main strategy is to build up a nice set of swamps with a doubler like Crypt Ghast or Caged Sun and a nice filled graveyard without attracting too much hate/attention (which seems impossible with a set up like this, but in practice it helps to just play helpless and not interfere too much with opponents).

Then, when Chainer, Dementia Master gets out, he throws around killers like Duplicant and Fleshbag Marauder, and life drainers like Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Massacre Wurm. More interesting though, is to abuse your opponents' creatures, lying in the graveyard after being killed by a Shadowborn Demon or milled by Undercity Informer (although milling yourself usually gets better stuff). Grabbing a Mystic Snake, Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir or Angel of Serenity is hilarious.

The deck is filled with the necessary sac engines to prevent exiling with Chainer or Dawn of the Dead, and of course abusing etb and dies triggers. Carelessly paying life for Chainer's ability (because it's so good!) needs to be balanced out with some life gain from Disciple of Griselbrand or Dross Harvester. There are enough vampires to kick Blood Tribute most of the time, but beyond that there isn't any tribal interaction anymore.

Dross Harvester, Grim Haruspex, Druidic Satchel, Sword of Body and Mind, Phyrexian Totem and Midnight Banshee still have to prove themselves. I don't play magic very often these days.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.14
Tokens	Harpy 1/1 B, Human 2/2 G, Morph 2/2 C, Saproling 1/1 G, Wolf 2/2 G