Heartless Cipher Demons

Standard BR (Rakdos) Midrange UB (Dimir) UBR (Grixis)

Marder

Creature (15)

• 3x Crypt Ghast
• 4x Desecration Demon
• 4x Reaper from the Abyss
• 4x Sire Of Insanity

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Ral Zarek

Land (23)

• 4x Blood Crypt
• 2x Cavern of Souls
• 3x Dragonskull Summit
• 3x Drowned Catacomb
• 4x Steam Vents
• 3x Sulfur Falls
• 4x Watery Grave

Enchantment (4)

• 4x Heartless Summoning

Instant (10)

• 3x Murder
• 3x Syncopate
• 4x Think Twice

Sorcery (6)

• 3x Dreadbore
• 3x Undercity Plague

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Sideboard

Artifact (3)

• 3x Glaring Spotlight

Instant (4)

• 4x Dimir Charm

Sorcery (8)

• 4x Mutilate
• 4x Slaughter Games

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Maybeboard

Creature (9)

• 4x Lord of the Void
• 1x Nefarox, Overlord of Grixis
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius
• 3x Nivix Guildmage

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana of the Veil

Instant (12)

• 4x Counterflux
• 4x Tribute to Hunger
• 4x Victim of Night

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Diabolic Revelation
• 4x Dreadbore
• 4x Stolen Identity

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A deck revolved around making life miserable with demons and cipher cards. Lets go over the basics:

Heartless Summoning: A must for this deck, considering I'm playing with some pretty big demons that are difficult to hard-cast. Though it does put some of the demons in the range of burn spells, that's a price I'm willing to pay.

Sire Of Insanity: The money card in this deck, the Sires allow the game to essentially become a top-deck battle, destroying control decks and crippling many aggro decks.

Desecration Demon: The main beat stick of the deck, and perhaps the best punishment card in standard right now. This demon forces people into tough situations and only grows bigger as the game goes on.

Reaper from the Abyss: Combos well with Desecration Demon and only keeps the hurt on.

Undercity Plague: A highly undervalued cipher card which will get out fast and cause lots of havoc when ciphered onto one of these demons.

Ral Zarek: Ral's many utilitarian purposes, from being used to give the demons pseudo vigilance to being used as a late game finisher, is absolutely awesome.

Crypt Ghast: Put in as both a backup to Heartless Summoning and to be an ideal heartless target itself, Crypt Ghast enables the Undercity Plagues and other Cipher cards to hit much faster.

Cavern of Souls: Because demons can't just be countered, right?

Date added	11 years
Last updated	11 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 11 Rares 0 - 4 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.68