For the Void

Commander / EDH Aristocrats Combo Eldrazi Infinite Combo Mono-Black Multiplayer Reanimator Sacrifice Tokens

MrKillStar

Creature (23)

• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Bog Witch
• 1x Cavalier of Night
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Dream Devourer
• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Lord of the Forsaken
• 1x Lord of the Void
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Pathrazer of Ulamog
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood
• 1x Void Winnower

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Haunted Crossroads
• 1x Oubliette
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Shadows of the Past
• 1x The Meathook Massacre
• 1x Tortured Existence

Land (34)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Everglades
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Lake of the Dead
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 20x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Bitter Ordeal
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Life's Finale
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Profane Command
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Sadistic Sacrament
• 1x Victimize

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms

Commander (1)

Instant (12)

• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Eat to Extinction
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Erebos's Intervention
• 1x Force of Despair
• 1x Insidious Dreams
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Price of Fame
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Tainted Strike
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Village Rites

Artifact (8)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Desecrated Tomb
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Trading Post

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Maybeboard

Creature (11)

• 1x Angel of Suffering
• 1x Carrier Thrall
• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Matter Reshaper
• 1x Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel
• 1x Sengir Autocrat
• 1x Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker
• 1x Twilight Prophet
• 1x Voldaren Pariah  ^Flip
• 1x Woe Strider

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Behold the Beyond
• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Exhume
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Persist
• 1x Profane Tutor

Land (2)

• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Thawing Glaciers

Artifact (2)

• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Instant (4)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Malicious Affliction
• 1x Tragic Slip

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Mortuary
• 1x Scion of Halaster

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INTRODUCTION:

I originally started this deck as mass-reanimator with Whisper, Blood Liturgist as a commander with most creatures being Eldrazi. But later on, I changed many things, switched to Syr Konrad, the Grim for some interesting and unsual shenanigans. This is mostly combo deck, but I heard beating someone with big annihilator Eldrazi works just fine.

Recent changes - removed and added cards: Show

Reason why I took out cards below are in maybeboard section.
Reason for added cards will be in Meaning of used cards.
15/12/2020 changes:
out: Mortuary; in: Skullclamp
out: Sol Ring; in: Attrition
out: Spawnsire of Ulamog; in: Priest of Forgotten Gods
out: Geier Reach Sanitarium; in: Phyrexian Tower
out: Agadeem's Awakening  ; in: Grave Titan
out: Oblivion Sower; in: Dread Drone
out: Myriad Landscape in: Buried Ruin
out: Cabal Ritual in: Carnival of Souls
out: Matter Reshaper in: Ayara, First of Locthwain
out: Village Rites in: Ghoulcaller Gisa
out: Whip of Erebos in: Thornbite Staff
out: Dread Presence in: Whisper, Blood Liturgist
out: Carrier Thrall in: Bog Witch
out: Scheming Symmetry in: Vampiric Tutor
out: Artisan of Kozilek in: Lord of the Void
15/02/2021 changes:
out: Behold the Beyond in: Nether Traitor
out: Carnival of Souls in: Dream Devourer
30/05/2021 changes:
out: Dread Drone in: Village Rites
out: Thornbite Staff in: Plumb the Forbidden
out: Whisper, Blood Liturgist in: Sheoldred, Whispering One
out: Ghoulcaller Gisa in: Sedgemoor Witch
out: Bastion of Remembrance in: Szat's Will
05/12/2021 changes:
out: Plumb the Forbidden in: Lord of the Forsaken
out: Sedgemoor Witch in: The Meathook Massacre
14/16/2022 changes:
out: Szat's Will in: Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker

Notes to a synergy between cards: Show

1) Tortured Existence + Desecrated Tomb - great way to get big creatures into graveyard to reanimate them early on and to get small and cheap creatures to your hand and re-cast them. The ability to instantly generate a 1/1 flying creature token black (with Ayara, First of Locthwain in play) can be very important too.

2) Bolas's Citadel - There is just too many things you can do with this awesome card. Really nice example is Vampiric Tutor (or any other tutor that put fetched card on top of library). We can use Bolas's Citadel to cast our entire combo with Insidious Dreams.

3) Very sneaky Emergence Zone can easily enable to cast Bitter Ordeal anytime after someone wipes the board filled with permanents to exile X cards from target opponent's library, search that opponent's library to exile their either win conditions cards or big threat cards. This is also an additional card/win-con for Desecrated Tomb + Phyrexian Altar + Tortured Existence engine and more.

4) Syr Konrad, the Grim + Tainted Strike. Cast Tainted Strike as response to someones board-wipe or before activation of our Desecrated Tomb + Tortured Existence engine to make sure all opponents die to infect.

Quick combo overview: Show

Syr Konrad - infinite engine:

Activating Tortured Existence triggers Syr Konrad, the Grim - twice!
Add Desecrated Tomb and we get a 1/1 token with flying for every activision of Desecrated Tomb + Tortured Existence engine.
So far, this is just a slow beat down, but add Phyrexian Altar for an infinite loop.
In case Syr Konrad isn't able to to kill someone who is still alive, casting Bitter Ordeal, after we activated our previous infinite loop enough times, to exile all cards from our opponent's library to mill all of their cards and they should lose to drawing from an empty library.
If you either don't have Bitter Ordeal in your hand or don't run it, Altar of the Brood mills every opponent upon each activision of Tortured Existence.

Bolas's Citadel - infinite Gray Merchant of Asphodel:

I figured out a different way to use Bolas's Citadel, instead of Aetherflux Reservoir with Sensei's Divining Top combo:
With Bolas's Citadel, Phyrexian Altar and Haunted Crossroads on board, we have exactly 4 devotion to black (most likely more)... And everyone knows, who loves devotion to black in mono-black decks the most, right? Our guy, Gray Merchant of Asphodel!
Cast Gary out of your hand, or reanimate him from our graveyard or manage to cast him from the top of our library. Gary's ETB triggers, we get at least 6 devotion to black, so 6 life per each opponent back! Then sacrifice Gary to Phyrexian Altar ({B} floating), spend the floating {B} to Haunted Crossroads (or keep the mana if you decide to use Mortuary instead), put Gary on top of our library and recast him again and again and again until everyone else is dead. If no opponent somehow manages to interrupt our combo, we can do this infinitely times and drain everyone out.

If our opponent(s) manages to survive with zero life, casting Bitter Ordeal should finish the job to exile their entire library; or Altar of the Brood to mill everyone out.

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Eldrazi 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Mono-Black 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Reanimator 4 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	2 years
Key combos	Desecrated Tomb + Phyrexian Altar + Tortured Existence Desecrated Tomb + Tortured Existence
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	19 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.02
Tokens	Bat 1/1 B, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Foretell, Goat 0/1 W, Thrull 1/1 B, Zombie 2/2 B