How it has actually done
Not a rating — results from Commander games recorded at a table. See commander stats worth tracking and what mmr means in magic, which rates the deck rather than its pilot.
Bracket 2 — Core
A floor, not a verdict — 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.
Running 2 stax pieces — what stax means.
What it's built out of
Measured against the Balanced Midrange blueprint. Counts overlap and sum past 100 — 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 | 35 | 37 | On target |
| Ramp | 5 | 10 | 5 short |
| Card advantage | 10 | 10 | On target |
| Spot removal | 12 | 8 | 4 over |
| Board wipes | 7 | 3 | 4 over |
| Creatures | 30 | 28 | On target |
| Recursion | 8 | 3 | 5 over |
| Protection | 2 | 3 | On target |
| Tutors | 2 | 2 | On target |
| Artifacts | 4 | — | No target |
| Enchantments | 7 | — | No target |
| Instants | 14 | — | No target |
| Sorceries | 10 | — | No target |
| Planeswalkers | 4 | — | No target |
| Graveyard hate | 2 | — | No target |
| Token makers | 12 | — | No target |
| Sacrifice outlets | 5 | — | No target |
| Stax pieces | 2 | — | No target |
Mana curve
Average mana value 3.25 across 65 nonland cards, against a target of 3.54. More on what makes a good curve and on building the mana base.
- 0-1 7
- 2 18
- 3 17
- 4 9
- 5 8
- 6 2
- 7+ 4
The written read
An AI review of this specific list, generated by its owner. Bracket 3 — Upgraded.
Grind out the table by repeatedly creating and sacrificing creatures (through Open the Graves, token generators and sacrifice outlets) to drain opponents with Blood Artist/Ayara-style effects while Liliana engines and recursion refill resources until opponents die to incremental drain and token attacks.
Typically closes around turn 9 in a four-player game. This average turn is set by slow zombie token recursion and attrition rather than a fast combo — adding resilient, repeatable recursion outlets or faster tutors (to assemble pieces sooner) would push the deck earlier.
Its three strongest interactions
- Open the Graves + Blood Artist: Open the Graves creates a steady stream of 2/2 Zombie tokens when your nontoken creatures die and each token's arrival/death path repeatedly triggers Blood Artist to drain opponents and gain you life.
- Liliana, Dreadhorde General + Gravecrawler: Liliana draws a card whenever a creature you control dies and makes Zombie tokens on demand while Gravecrawler can be cast from the graveyard as a Zombie, letting you recycle a cheap creature to repeatedly generate death triggers and card draw.
- Ghoulcaller Gisa + Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist: Sacrificing creatures to Ashnod (or other outlets) to create artifact Zombies with Ashnod and then using Ghoulcaller Gisa on higher-power sacrifices produces large numbers of Zombies to fuel sacrifice triggers, drains, and board presence.
Cards that would extend them
- Bloodghast: extends the Open the Graves + Blood Artist synergy by returning to the battlefield from your graveyard multiple times to die again and repeatedly trigger token creation and life-drain.
- Relentless Dead: extends the Liliana, Dreadhorde General + Gravecrawler synergy by being a persistently recastable Zombie that returns other Zombies and itself from the graveyard, creating repeated death-and-draw triggers that Liliana can capitalize on.
- Altar of Dementia: extends the Ghoulcaller Gisa + Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist synergy by providing a repeatable sacrifice outlet that mills or reanimates while enabling you to convert creatures into value and repeat Ghoulcaller/Ashnod token churn.
The decklist
100 cards, grouped by the main job each one does. Every name links to its own page — win rate, the commanders it's most played under, and the colors it turns up in.
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Buy this deck on TCGplayerCreature 12
Spot Removal 12
Land 35
Card Advantage 8
Board Wipe 5
Recursion 5
Tokens 5
Sacrifice Outlet 3
Enchantment 3
Sorcery 2
Instant 1
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Deck 1 Abstergo Entertainment 1 Abyssal Harvester 1 Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain 1 Barrowgoyf 1 Bitter Triumph 1 Black Cat, Cunning Thief 1 Blasphemous Edict 1 Blood Artist 1 Bloodchief Ascension 1 Burglar Rat 1 Cheerful Osteomancer // Raise Dead 1 Dark Ritual 1 Demon of Fate's Design 1 Diresight 1 Dismember 1 Doom Blade 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor 1 Exotic Orchard 1 Exsanguinate 1 Extirpate 1 Fake Your Own Death 1 Feed the Cycle 1 Feed the Swarm 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor 1 Gonti, Night Minister 1 Gravecrawler 1 Graveshifter 1 Heartless Act 1 High-Society Hunter 1 Insatiable Avarice 1 Isildur's Fateful Strike 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia 1 Liliana of the Veil 1 Liliana's Caress 1 Liliana's Standard Bearer 1 Liliana, Death Wielder 1 Liliana, Death's Majesty 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General 1 Marauding Blight-Priest 1 Meteor Crater 1 Morlun, Devourer of Spiders 1 Night Market 1 Night Shift of the Living Dead 1 Nocturnal Hunger 1 Open the Graves 1 Outrageous Robbery 1 Overwhelming Forces 1 Peer into the Abyss 1 Phyrexian Arena 1 Plaza of Heroes 1 Postmortem Professor 1 Pull from the Grave 1 Relic of Legends 1 Retched Wretch 1 Sauron, the Necromancer 1 Saw in Half 1 Secluded Courtyard 1 Sheoldred's Edict 1 Sire of Seven Deaths 1 Solemn Simulacrum 1 Soul-Shackled Zombie 1 Sphere of Resistance 1 Super Shredder 1 Surveillance Room 27 Swamp 1 The End 1 Tinybones Joins Up 1 Uncharted Haven 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch 1 Weaponcraft Enthusiast 1 Witch-king of Angmar 1 Worn Powerstone
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