The decklist
100 cards, grouped by the main job each one does, lands last. Every name links to its own page, with its win rate and the commanders it's most played under.
Ramp 18
- 1 Arcane Signet
- 1 Ashnod's Altar
- 1 Carrier Thrall
- 1 Crypt Ghast
- 1 Deadly Dispute
- 1 Everflowing Chalice
- 1 Greedy Freebooter
- 1 Jet Medallion
- 1 Lotus Petal
- 1 Pawn of Ulamog
- 1 Phyrexian Altar
- 1 Pitiless Plunderer
- 1 Sifter of Skulls
- 1 Skirge Familiar
- 1 Sol Ring
- 1 Soldevi Adnate
- 1 Thought Vessel
- 1 Warren Soultrader
Creature 11
- 1 Al Bhed Salvagers
- 1 Blood Artist
- 1 Butcher Ghoul
- 1 Geralf's Messenger
- 1 Hancock, Ghoulish Mayor
- 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
- 1 Sightless Ghoul
- 1 Susurian Voidborn
- 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
- 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
- 1 Zulaport Cutthroat
Card Advantage 10
- 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
- 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
- 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
- 1 Mausoleum Secrets
- 1 Morbid Opportunist
- 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
- 1 Skullclamp
- 1 Smothering Abomination
- 1 The One Ring
- 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
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These are results from Commander games recorded at a table, not a rating. See commander stats worth tracking and what mmr means in magic, which rates the deck rather than its pilot.
Combos in this deck
18 combos · 18 infinite. These come from Commander Spellbook, which only knows the ones somebody has written up, so this deck can hold more than these and never fewer.
INFINITE Gravecrawler + Phyrexian Altar
INFINITE Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Ashnod's Altar
INFINITE Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar + Reassembling Skeleton
Show the other 15 combos
INFINITE Warren Soultrader + Gravecrawler + Blood Artist
INFINITE Gravecrawler + Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar
INFINITE Warren Soultrader + Forsaken Miner + Blood Artist
INFINITE Warren Soultrader + Gravecrawler + Ayara, First of Locthwain
INFINITE Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Zulaport Cutthroat + Pawn of Ulamog
INFINITE Reassembling Skeleton + Phyrexian Altar + Pawn of Ulamog
INFINITE Forsaken Miner + Phyrexian Altar + Blood Artist
INFINITE Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Warren Soultrader + Blood Artist
INFINITE Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Nest of Scarabs + Blood Artist
INFINITE Nether Traitor + Phyrexian Altar + Pawn of Ulamog
INFINITE Reassembling Skeleton + Phyrexian Altar + Sifter of Skulls
INFINITE Gravecrawler + Skirge Familiar + Skullclamp
INFINITE Warren Soultrader + Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Blood Artist
Bracket 4: Optimized
This is a floor, read off the cards in the list, so a deck can play higher than this and never lower. Read how the commander bracket system works, and bring it to your Rule 0 conversation.
Game Changers in this list
- 3 Game Changers — any at all puts a deck at Bracket 3 or above
- a two-card infinite combo (Gravecrawler + Phyrexian Altar) — more than Bracket 3 allows
What it's built out of
Measured against the Balanced Midrange blueprint. Counts overlap and sum past 100, because a card counts toward every job it does, which is how deck builders count. See the 100-card commander deck template.
Slot by slot: 4 slots are outside their band, 5 inside
| Slot | In the deck | Target | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lands | 33 | 37 | 4 short |
| Ramp | 18 | 10 | 8 over |
| Card advantage | 11 | 10 | On target |
| Spot removal | 7 | 8 | On target |
| Board wipes | 3 | 3 | On target |
| Creatures | 39 | 28 | 11 over |
| Recursion | 6 | 3 | 3 over |
| Protection | 2 | 3 | On target |
| Tutors | 5 | 2 | On target |
| Artifacts | 10 | — | No target |
| Enchantments | 6 | — | No target |
| Instants | 8 | — | No target |
| Sorceries | 6 | — | No target |
| Planeswalkers | 1 | — | No target |
| Graveyard hate | 2 | — | No target |
| Token makers | 18 | — | No target |
| Sacrifice outlets | 9 | — | No target |
Mana curve
Average mana value 2.78 across 67 nonland cards, against a target of 3.54. More on what makes a good curve and on building the mana base.
- 0-1 10
- 2 20
- 3 18
- 4 13
- 5 4
- 6 2
- 7+ 0
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Commander 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician Deck 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt 1 Al Bhed Salvagers 1 Arcane Signet 1 Ashnod's Altar 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain 1 Bastion of Remembrance 1 Blood Artist 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare 1 Butcher Ghoul 1 Carrier Thrall 1 Case of the Stashed Skeleton 1 Crypt Ghast 1 Damnation 1 Dauthi Voidwalker 1 Deadly Dispute 1 Deadly Rollick 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Dismember 1 Doomed Dissenter 1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder 1 Everflowing Chalice 1 Feed the Swarm 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire 1 Forsaken Miner 1 Geralf's Messenger 1 Grave Pact 1 Gravecrawler 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel 1 Greedy Freebooter 1 Grim Tutor 1 Hancock, Ghoulish Mayor 1 Infestation Sage 1 Jet Medallion 1 Lake of the Dead 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General 1 Lotus Petal 1 Marionette Apprentice 1 Mausoleum Secrets 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed 1 Morbid Opportunist 1 Nest of Scarabs 1 Nested Shambler 1 Nether Traitor 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx 1 Ophiomancer 1 Pawn of Ulamog 1 Phyrexian Altar 1 Phyrexian Tower 1 Pitiless Plunderer 1 Reassembling Skeleton 1 Reliquary Tower 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse 1 Sifter of Skulls 1 Sightless Ghoul 1 Skirge Familiar 1 Skullclamp 1 Smothering Abomination 1 Snuff Out 1 Sol Ring 1 Soldevi Adnate 1 Sothera, the Supervoid 1 Strip Mine 1 Susurian Voidborn 23 Swamp 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim 1 The One Ring 1 Thought Vessel 1 Toxic Deluge 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth 1 Vampiric Tutor 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch 1 Warren Soultrader 1 Witch's Cottage 1 Withering Torment 1 Zombie Infestation 1 Zulaport Cutthroat
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