Sacrificial Mastery

Commander / EDH Stax Suicide Black

Jaycons

Creature (38)

• 1x Abyssal Gatekeeper
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Catacomb Sifter
• 1x Champion of Stray Souls
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Creakwood Liege
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Hornet Queen
• 1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1x Korozda Guildmage
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip
• 1x Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Sadistic Hypnotist
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Savra, Queen of the Golgari
• 1x Scourge of Nel Toth
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Slum Reaper
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Verdant Force
• 1x Viridian Emissary
• 1x Viridian Zealot
• 1x Yavimaya Elder

Land (36)

• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Tower
• 12x Forest
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x High Market
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 12x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Dark Prophecy
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x From Beyond
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Pernicious Deed

Artifact (6)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring

Instant (1)

• 1x Putrefy

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Barter in Blood
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Innocent Blood
• 1x Jarad's Orders
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 1x Victimize

Commander (1)

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Creature (1)

• 1x Blood Artist

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Bad Moon

Artifact (2)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Nim Deathmantle

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Sacrificial Mastery is a deck based around the simplest of mechanics. The first is sacrifice your creatures, get your experience counters on Meren, and bring back creatures that trigger their on enter abilities. And secondly, make everyone else suffer by using all your on enter abilities to force them to sacrifice, and in turn make yourself sacrifice, triggering creature abilities to make them sacrifice more and more.

This deck base is from the 2015 'Plunder the Graves' commander deck. But has since evolved into something a lot more sinister.

Playing sacrifice-synergistic effects such as Smothering Abomination, Savra, Queen of the Golgari, and Birthing Pod allow us to ramp/tutor up quickly, and make sure we have an engine to abuse with Mazirek when we decide to play her in the next following turn(s).

Once our board is in a state that would benefit from +1/+1 counters, the goal is to cast Mazirek and use a repeatable sacrifice source to buff our board into kingdom come. A well placed Avenger of Zendikar with a sac outlet can give us the game. Alternatively, we use our sacrifice effects to slowly wear down the board until we can swarm them with A) Tokens or B) Creatures from hand.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	WUR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.89
Tokens	Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Experience Token, Insect 1/1 G w/ Flying, Deathtouch, Morph 2/2 C, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Worm 1/1 BG, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	golgari, ideas
Based on	Meren Prototype CivilizedSin EDH