Dead Souls

Commander / EDH Mono-Black

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Creature (37)

• 1x Abyssal Gatekeeper
• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Balthor the Defiled
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Bloodsoaked Champion
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dire Fleet Ravager
• 1x Doomed Necromancer
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Gutterbones
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Krovikan Horror
• 1x Leaden Myr
• 1x Magus of the Will
• 1x Manakin
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Millikin
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Nirkana Revenant
• 1x Ogre Slumlord
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Plague Myr
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Sadistic Hypnotist
• 1x Sengir Autocrat
• 1x Sifter of Skulls
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Undercity Informer
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Land (38)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Forest
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Strip Mine
• 29x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Artifact (9)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Grafted Exoskeleton
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Memory Jar
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Instant (4)

• 1x Bone Harvest
• 1x Corpse Churn
• 1x Dark Bargain
• 1x Wake the Dead

Commander (1)

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Forever Young
• 1x Ill-Gotten Gains
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Morality Shift
• 1x Ransack the Lab
• 1x Twilight's Call

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Phyresis
• 1x Revel in Riches

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Enchantment (2)

• 1x Glistening Oil
• 1x Mind Slash

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Shared Trauma

Instant (1)

• 1x Tainted Strike

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The story follows the exploits of Chichikov, a middle-aged gentleman of middling social class and means. Chichikov arrives in a small town and turns on the charm to woo key local officials and landowners. He reveals little about his past, or his purpose, as he sets about carrying out his bizarre and mysterious plan to acquire "dead souls."

The government would tax the landowners based on how many serfs (or "souls") the landowner owned, determined by the census. Censuses in this period were infrequent, so landowners would often be paying taxes on serfs that were no longer living, thus the "dead souls." It is these dead souls, existing on paper only, that Chichikov seeks to purchase from the landlords in the villages he visits; he merely tells the prospective sellers that he has a use for them, and that the sellers would be better off anyway, since selling them would relieve the present owners of a needless tax burden.

[From Wikipedia]

A tribute to Nikolai Gogol.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 26 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.16
Tokens	Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Morph 2/2 C, Rat 1/1 B, Serf 0/1 B, Treasure