Malleus Maleficarum

Commander / EDH* Constellation Curse Enchant UBR (Grixis)

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Enchantment (26)

• 1x Copy Enchantment
• 1x Cruel Reality
• 1x Curse of Bloodletting
• 1x Curse of Disturbance
• 1x Curse of Echoes
• 1x Curse of Fool's Wisdom
• 1x Curse of Leeches  ^Flip
• 1x Curse of Misfortunes
• 1x Curse of Obsession
• 1x Curse of Opulence
• 1x Curse of Shaken Faith
• 1x Curse of Surveillance
• 1x Curse of Thirst
• 1x Curse of Unbinding
• 1x Curse of Verbosity
• 1x Curse of the Bloody Tome
• 1x Curse of the Pierced Heart
• 1x Daxos's Torment
• 1x Estrid's Invocation
• 1x Fraying Sanity
• 1x Infernal Tribute
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Maddening Hex
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Torment of Scarabs
• 1x Trespasser's Curse

Creature (14)

• 1x Agent of Erebos
• 1x Bitterheart Witch
• 1x Blood Aspirant
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Doomwake Giant
• 1x Eidolon of Philosophy
• 1x God-Eternal Bontu
• 1x Grim Guardian
• 1x Protean Thaumaturge
• 1x Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
• 1x Sakashima's Protege
• 1x Slaughter-Priest of Mogis
• 1x Spark Double

Land (37)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 10x Island
• 10x Mountain
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 10x Swamp
• 1x Watery Grave

Instant (4)

• 1x Clutch of the Undercity
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Final Flare
• 1x Perplex

Commander (1)

Artifact (12)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Claws of Gix
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Brainspoil
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Profane Tutor
• 1x Vandalblast

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The recent printing of Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor (who happens to exist in my very favorite color combination) means I can now realize one of my long-standing dreams: a deck all about curses!

As there are only 39 curses in the game, and only 30 of those are in Grixis colors, (and only so many of those are any good) there's also a lot of "Enchantments Matter," Constellation, and Enchantment Creature cards, pulled mostly from Theros.

One thing you can do is to try and weave a wide web of "Whenever you play an enchantment..." triggers, and then reap the rewards when you do play your enchantments, which you should be able to do multiple times a turn, once you get going.

Lynde's ability of moving curses from yourself to others, and then drawing two cards, means it is often worthwhile to curse yourself, ideally at the end of the last turn before yours, using Leyline of Anticipation or Vedalken Orrery. Then during your upkeep, you transfer the curse over to one of your unfortunate opponents and draw your extra cards.

Curse of Thirst and Curse of Bloodletting work especially well together if you start copying them with cards like Mirrormade, Estrid's Invocation, Copy Enchantment, et cetera. Let's say you have both Bloodletting and Thirst attached to one opponent: they're taking 1 damage for each curse, which is 2, doubled by Bloodletting to 4 damage during their upkeep. Now if you play Mirrormade on Curse of Bloodletting, they'll have 3 curses, 2 of which double the damage they take during their upkeep: 3 damage, doubled to 6 by Bloodletting, doubled again to 12 by the other Bloodletting. Play Copy Enchantment on Curse of Thirst, and they'll have 4 curses, 2 of which will deal one to them for each curse (2 damage per curse times 4 curses = 8 damage) and the other 2 of which will work together to quadruple that amount (32 damage). Now we're tormenting!

A great thing about Miss Cheerful Tormentor is that she recycles your curses if they go to the graveyard for any reason. This makes it worthwhile to play cards that let you sacrifice your own enchantments, like Claws of Gix, Infernal Tribute, God-Eternal Bontu, and others. Then when you sacrifice them, Lynde recurs them and moves them around and draws you cards and stuff. It can also be fun to make non-legendary copies of Lynde with Spark Double or Sakashima of a Thousand Faces; then you can move multiple curses around every upkeep, and draw two cards for each. Say you've managed to make two non-legendary copies of Lynde, for a total of three Lyndes in play at once, and you play God-Eternal Bontu, sacrificing three of the curses you have attached to your opponent(s). Bontu will draw you three cards, and then each Lynde will draw you another two cards during your next upkeep. For best results, flash in Bontu with Vedalken Orrery or Leyline of Anticipation right before your turn, to draw a total of nine cards in one flurry of curse-recursion.

And as a fun side note about Lynde, if you look closely at her, you will see she is holding a voodoo doll of the unlucky planeswalker featured in Curse of Verbosity, Curse of Disturbance, and Curse of Opulence, and I think that's pretty great.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 32 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.39
Tokens	Day, Gold, Night, Zombie 2/2 B