Patriarch of Umezawa

Commander / EDH* Control Infect Mono-Black Suicide Black Theme/Gimmick

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Instant (29)

• 1x Consume the Meek
• 1x Curtains' Call
• 1x Darkness
• 1x Devour Flesh
• 1x Devour in Shadow
• 1x Diabolic Edict
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Fated Return
• 1x Geth's Verdict
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Grim Return
• 1x Grip of Desolation
• 1x Hatred
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Malicious Affliction
• 1x Moonlight Bargain
• 1x Murderous Cut
• 1x Necrologia
• 1x Reckless Spite
• 1x Scour from Existence
• 1x Succumb to Temptation
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Tendrils of Corruption
• 1x Thrilling Encore
• 1x To the Slaughter
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Tribute to Hunger
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Vona's Hunger

Artifact (19)

• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Glaring Spotlight
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Lashwrithe
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Nightmare Lash
• 1x Oathkeeper, Takeno's Daisho
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Primal Amulet  ^Flip
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Strata Scythe
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte

Creature (6)

• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Crypt Rats
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Myojin of Night's Reach
• 1x Nirkana Revenant

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Promise of Power
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Commander (1)

Land (37)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Detection Tower
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 24x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Infernal Darkness
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Null Profusion
• 1x Phyrexian Arena

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Maybeboard

Artifact (2)

• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Runechanter's Pike

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Land (1)

• 1x Command Beacon

Instant (1)

• 1x Wretched Confluence

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Toshiro Umezawa is a human Samurai from the Kamigawa Plane. He pissed off the Myojin of Night's Reach, who transported him to Dominaria and blinded him. Apparently he whooped as much ass there as on Kamigawa, because he hooked himself up with a mansion and founded a clan. ~300 years later, his mega-grand kiddy Tetsuo Umezawa murdered the most evil badass in the multiverse, Nicol Bolas. See: Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker.

The maybe-board is for cards I want to test, or cards I haven't traded for yet. The side-board is for cards I'm actively testing but unsure of.

Purpose

Toshiro Umezawa is a mono-black samurai spell-slinger! I tried to maintain this awesome flavor by giving my commander plenty of sneaky combat tricks to play with, and a sub-theme of death-by-poison.

Toshiro Umezawa wields incredible power! Who doesn't want to cast Vampiric Tutor or Treacherous Urge twice??? Toshiro feeds this dark power by killing his enemies!

How the Deck Plays

As you can see, this list is full of the most powerful instants (subjectively, I admit) available to a mono-black shell. Toshiro Umezawa "sees" every death on the battlefield while he is in play. It is helpful to remember these rulings:

2/1/2005
You must still pay the mana cost of the target instant in your graveyard to cast it using Toshiro's ability.
1/1/2011
Creatures destroyed by an instant that you cast normally can cause a trigger that allows the instant to be cast again. For example, cast Terror on an opponent's creature. The creature is destroyed, triggering Toshiro's ability, and then the Terror is put into your graveyard. You can put Toshiro's ability on the stack targeting the Terror and then recast it when the ability resolves.

In addition, it is worth noting that Toshi will see these deaths during a board wipe.

Another take on this general can be found at:
Nicol Bolas is a Whiny Bitch and is associated with an active MTG strategy blog.

Here is a primer for a reanimator build:
Toshiro Umezawa Reanimator

Date added	10 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	101
Avg. CMC	3.45
Tokens	City's Blessing, Demon */* B, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B
Folders	Samurai Deck