Life as Currency / Mono Black Control

Commander / EDH Mono-Black

GreenKingUrdroxa

Land (36)

• 7x Swamp
• 3x Swamp
• 4x Swamp
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Springjack Pasture
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

Artifact (11)

• 1x Conqueror's Galleon  ^Flip
• 1x Soul Conduit
• 1x Mindslaver
• 1x Venser's Journal
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Planar Portal
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Whip of Erebos
• 1x Bolas's CitadelGC

Creature (19)

• 1x Embodiment of Agonies
• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Reaper from the Abyss
• 1x Overseer of the Damned
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Fleshwrither
• 1x Nirkana Revenant
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Chainer, Dementia Master
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood
• 1x Kiku, Night's Flower
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer *f-pre*  ^Flip
• 1x Murderous Rider
• 1x Opposition AgentGC
• 1x Phyrexian Obliterator
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Avatar of Woe

Instant (7)

• 1x Hero's Demise
• 1x Hour of Glory
• 1x Moonlight Bargain
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Withering Boon
• 1x Vampiric TutorGC
• 1x Eat to Extinction

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Sorin Markov
• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools

Commander (1)

Sorcery (18)

• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Ruinous Path
• 1x Gild
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Never / Return
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Diabolic Revelation
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Temporal Extortion
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Agadeem's Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Sadistic Sacrament

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Font of Agonies
• 1x Eldrazi Conscription
• 1x Contamination
• 1x Bitterblossom

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Built the deck with a group in mind. Has excellent hand management with a solid creature removal. The strategy is to utilize your own life as much as you can, and try to switch totals and rinse and repeat for shenanigans. There are several supplementary strats like using Eldrazi Conscription on a Phyrexian Obliterator and mindslaver someone to attack you with something big enough to sink as many power points at the Obliterator's toughness for maximum fun. I have refrained from instant win's and 'unfun' tactics like that, but I am not necessarily above just limiting how much someone can play (lol). The deck's early is kinda lackluster but the turn 4's and sometimes 3's can be incredibly productive that makes your next turn much more efficient.

The deck has beaten CDH level decks before (mainly in group settings where you get a good kill spell off or a lucky Withering Boon), but can be used in a 1v1 still with good odds. Still a work in progress as new cards come out and I resituate the deck's mana curve.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	20 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 9 - 0 Uncommons 3 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.42
Tokens	Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Goat 0/1 W, Gold, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Marit Lage, On an Adventure, Thrull 0/1 B, Zombie 2/2 B