The Chainer That Binds

Commander / EDH Mono-Black Multiplayer

PookandPie

Creature (29)

• 1x Abhorrent Overlord
• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
• 1x Massacre Girl
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Mindslicer
• 1x Nirkana Revenant
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Soldevi Adnate
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Tymaret, Chosen from Death
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Land (35)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x High Market
• 1x Miren, the Moaning Well
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 22x Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vesuva
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Cruel Tutor
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Instant (4)

• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Commander (1)

Artifact (11)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Attrition
• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Contamination
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Font of Agonies
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Necropotence

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Sideboard

Artifact (3)

• 1x Defense Grid
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Spawning Pit *list*

Creature (2)

• 1x Hex Parasite
• 1x Withered Wretch

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Maybeboard

Creature (2)

• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Soldevi Adnate

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A simple mono black Chainer deck.

Trying to make this without any infinite combos that end the game too early, since I have a few too many Commander decks which do that already. This is Big Mana Black in a simple form and mostly meant to give people some good Commander games without being incredibly oppressive.

This deck mostly just focuses on removing creatures, and against decks that don't require creatures to win, looping Mindslicer will typically suffice if done on an opponent's draw step. Keep people off their creature plan for the first 5~ turns, while you set up and accumulate a big mana board state (Cabal Coffers is the real Commander of this deck), and then use recursion loops with Chainer and Kokusho, the Evening Star and Gray Merchant of Asphodel to win the game once your opponent's hands or creature boards have been appropriately stripped, and you have enough mana to do this multiple times in a turn.

The deck only has three infinite combos to end out the game if need be. One is Chainer, Dementia Master + Phyrexian Altar + Grave Titan + Blood Artist or Zulaport Cutthroat. It's a pretty hefty combo to assemble, though thankfully it's unnecessary to win games. You just bring Wurmcoil out and sacrifice it and its tokens to the Altar. This gains you 3 life, 3 lifeloss for your opponents and BBB, allowing you to repeat the process.

Similar to the above, Chainer, Dementia Master + Phyrexian Altar + Abhorrent Overlord + Blood Artist or Zulaport Cutthroat makes infinite harpy tokens and life drain for your opponents.

Similar to the above, Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed + Phyrexian Altar + Living Death + Zulaport Cutthroat or Blood Artist + four or more other creatures on field or in the graveyard is an infinite dies trigger combo or infinite mana combo, depending on how many creatures you have in the graveyard or play. You sac all of your creatures for mana and cast Living Death (or sac Xiahou Dun to get Living Death out of your graveyard), bringing all six creatures (Xiahou Dun + 5 others) back to the battlefield. Sac Xiahou Dun again to return Living Death, sac all 5 creatures again for mana, and repeat this process. If you have 6 or more creatures, you will produce infinite black mana. If you have Zulaport Cutthroat, Blood Artist, Gray Merchant of Asphodel, or Kokusho, you'll just win by life draining the table. You can also destroy/sacrifice all creatures repeatedly, draw tons of cards, etc., depending on the creatures you have, so it's a strangely flexible if not difficult to set up combo.

These combos have a lot of pieces because this deck is intended to be somewhat on the slower side for more casual groups.

Card Outline by Purpose

Drawing Cards:

Disciple of Bolas, Corpse Augur, Grim Haruspex,
Smothering Abomination, Twilight Prophet, Solemn Simulacrum + Any sac outlet, Skullclamp, Necropotence, Phyrexian Arena, Vampiric Rites.

Tutors:
Razaketh, the Foulblooded, Dimir House Guard + CMC 4 cards, Sidisi, Undead Vizier, Expedition Map + Cabal Coffers lol, Beseech the Queen, Cruel Tutor, Buried Alive, Demonic Tutor, Entomb, Vampiric Tutor.

Sacrifice Outlets:
Razaketh, the Foulblooded, Dimir House Guard, Viscera Seer, Altar of Dementia, Phyrexian Altar, Vampiric Rites, Attrition (sort of).
Phyrexian Tower, High Market, and Miren, the Moaning Well work once per turn.

Gain life:
Disciple of Bolas, Twilight Prophet, Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Kokusho, the Evening Star, Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Exsanguinate, Vampiric Rites (sort of).

Date added	9 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 3 Rares 23 - 2 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.95
Tokens	2/2 C Artifact Creature Spawn, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Harpy 1/1 B, Morph 2/2 C
Folders	Owned Commander Decks, Chainz