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Commander / EDH* Competitive Discard Group Slug Mono-Black

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Ramp (20)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Helm of Awakening
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Lake of the Dead
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Vesuva

Other Lands (26)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 21x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Mombo Wombo Combo (3)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Necropotence

Board Wipe (2)

• 1x Dead of Winter
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Pain (Discard) (13)

• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Burglar Rat
• 1x Cunning Lethemancer
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Delirium Skeins
• 1x Liliana of the Veil
• 1x Mind Rake
• 1x Necrogen Mists
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Smallpox
• 1x Tasigur's Cruelty
• 1x Vicious Rumors
• 1x Words of Waste

Utility (8)

• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Library of Leng
• 1x Skirge Familiar
• 1x Temporal Extortion
• 1x The Elderspell
• 1x Waste Not
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Punishment (5)

• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Quest for the Nihil Stone
• 1x Shrieking Affliction
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Spicy Kill Combo (3)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Tinybones' BFF (1)

• 1x Maralen of the Mornsong

Commander (1)

Tutor (8)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Joy (Draw) (6)

• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Anvil of Bogardan
• 1x Asylum Visitor
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top

Pain & Joy (4)

• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Ill-Gotten Gains
• 1x Rankle, Master of Pranks
• 1x Syphon Mind

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Other (12)

• 1x Arterial Flow
• 1x Burglar Rat
• 1x Chain of Smog
• 1x Cloak and Dagger
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Force of Despair
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Thoughtseize
• 1x Unmask

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Discard. Control. Kill. Plus, you get to use Tinybones.

The deck uses its discard aspect to control your opponents' hands, while simultaneously punishing them and drawing you cards.

Opening with Necrogen Mists or Bottomless Pit is a fantastic way to combo off with Tinybones, Trinket Thief to disrupt your opponents' plays and set up your board. Anvil of Bogardan allows you to abuse this combo for longer periods of time during slower games.

Cabal Coffers can be copied by Thespian's Stage and Vesuva for a plethora of .

Aside from the obvious kill using Tinybones and damage from cards in the Punishment category from discarding and general lack of cards in hand, the deck boasts 2 flare combos. Bloodchief Ascension and Mindcrank is a fair and obvious win condition. Bolas's Citadel is a separate way of creating fear in your opponents, using Aetherflux Reservoir to replenish your lost life and Necropotence to exile pesky lands from the top of your library when they get in the way or Sensei's Divining Top to draw them off the top of the library instead.. Using this combo, I try to ramp as high as I can, and use Temporal Extortion to untap my mana. Torment of Hailfire and your commander are typically enough to earn the game at this point.

Let me know your thoughts!

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position overall 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.53
Tokens	Zombie 2/2 B
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