Grixis Sarcophagus: Standard Living End

Standard* Living End Reanimator UBR (Grixis)

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Land (24)

• 4x Aether Hub
• 4x Choked Estuary
• 4x Fetid Pools
• 4x Mountain
• 4x Spirebluff Canal
• 4x Swamp

Creature (16)

• 4x Curator of Mysteries
• 4x Hollow One
• 4x Striped Riverwinder
• 4x Vile Manifestation

Artifact (4)

• 4x Abandoned Sarcophagus

Instant (8)

• 4x Abrade
• 4x Censor

Planeswalker (4)

• 4x Liliana, Death's Majesty

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Sweltering Suns

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Sideboard

Instant (5)

• 3x Abrade
• 2x Countervailing Winds

Sorcery (4)

• 2x Bontu's Last Reckoning
• 2x Hour of Devastation

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A standard edition of Living End, using Abandoned Sarcophagus and Liliana, Death's Majesty to bring back cycled creatures or cycling spells.

Sweltering Suns and Bontu's Last Reckoning give you the board clear side of things, with Suns being castable again from your GY once you have a Sarcophagus and all the creatures in the deck being able to survive it.

Meanwhile, you can get around the drawback of Bontu's Last Reckoning here by playing a land the next turn and cycling something for 1; or, just casting it when you have a Liliana, Death's Majesty out. Kill everything, and then resurrect one of your beaters with her -3; or, use her +2 ability to make a 2/2 zombie and fill that graveyard. She functions as a kind of backup Sarcophagus for all those creatures.

Vile Manifestation gets kind of crazy here. It can be cast from your graveyard with the Sarcophagus; it survives your own Sweltering Suns on curve (and is even pumped +1 power by it); it buffs later copies of itself from the gravsyard if it dies (as its a cycling card); and it blocks well - with surprise pumps, to boot. Liliana can pump it with her +2, and it even counts your cycle lands. All for a 2 mana card, which you could cast from the graveyard on the same turn as a Sarcophagus. Pretty sweet!

Suggestions & comments welcome, esp. sideboard and mana base.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 28 - 4 Rares 16 - 3 Uncommons 4 - 2 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.67
Tokens	Energy Reserve, Zombie 2/2 B