Phage (1st Draft)

Commander / EDH* Mono-Black

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Creature (21)

• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Cadaver Imp
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dread
• 1x Dreamstealer
• 1x Filth
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Lord of the Void
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Reiver Demon
• 1x Royal Assassin
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Soul of Innistrad
• 1x Vampire Hexmage

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Blood Reckoning
• 1x Curse of Vengeance
• 1x Dauthi Embrace
• 1x Endless Whispers
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Oversold Cemetery
• 1x Palace Siege

Artifact (21)

• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Chariot of Victory
• 1x Chromatic Sphere
• 1x Chromatic Star
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Elbrus, the Binding Blade  ^Flip
• 1x Hammer of Nazahn
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Key to the City
• 1x Lich's Mirror
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Prowler's Helm
• 1x Shield of Kaldra
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite
• 1x Sword of Vengeance
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Trailblazer's Boots
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Profane Command
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms

Commander (1)

Land (38)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Petrified Field
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 28x Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vesuva
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold

Instant (2)

• 1x Scour from Existence
• 1x Wretched Confluence

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Sideboard

Artifact (2)

• 1x Black Mana Battery
• 1x Conqueror's Galleon  ^Flip

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Fortuitous Find
• 1x Grim Discovery

Creature (1)

• 1x Merciless Executioner

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Maybeboard

Land (21)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Dust Bowl
• 1x Encroaching Wastes
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x Haunted Fengraf
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Ice Floe
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Mystifying Maze
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Subterranean Hangar
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Wasteland

Sorcery (15)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Asphyxiate
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Corrupt
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Disturbed Burial
• 1x Liturgy of Blood
• 1x Mastermind's Acquisition
• 1x Nightmare Incursion
• 1x Plague Wind
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Wander in Death

Creature (3)

• 1x Dark Impostor
• 1x Korlash, Heir to Blackblade
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana Vess

Artifact (9)

• 1x Champion's Helm
• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Dolmen Gate
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Glaring Spotlight
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Strionic Resonator

Instant (8)

• 1x Dash Hopes
• 1x Death Denied
• 2x Gravepurge
• 1x Grim Harvest
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Withering Boon

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Blood Reckoning
• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation

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This is the first draft of this deck. By the end, it was a bit rushed, so there are likely some pretty sub-optimal choices. The way I've designed it, I expect that it will play somewhere between Voltron and control. I'd love to see more tutors, tokens, and sac outlets, but I didn't really feel like there was room. It is very possible that some could be found. I also wanted to include more lands that blow up other lands. I might be able to squeeze some of those in at the cost of a little graveyard recursion. Similarly, I would have liked to include the two black counterspells that only made it to the Maybe Board. This list is pretty creature-light, relying heavily on ramp, control (which I may well need more of), and rattlesnakes (motivation to attack other players). The expectation is that Phage will do most all of the work, cards like Gray Merchant of Asphodel , Withengar Unbound , and even potentially Dark Depths (should I choose to include it) could also conceivably end the game.

Don't forget the PhageBlade Combo.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 2 Rares 14 - 1 Uncommons 7 - 2 Commons
Cards	95
Avg. CMC	4.09
Tokens	Dreamstealer 4/4 B, Zombie 2/2 B