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Pure // Simple — Lose Weight, Not Games - Mono-Black Rareless
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
Legal
Est deck cost: $178.13
Salt Sum: 29.8
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $0.35
Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker

Whenever a creature with power 1 or less is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may return that card to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step if Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker is still on the battlefield.

Creature
Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker (uma) 112
1

Artifacts

Quantity: 14Price: $34.61
Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (plst) EMA-218
1
Bubbling Cauldron

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 4 life. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature named Festering Newt: Each opponent loses 4 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Artifact
Bubbling Cauldron (jmp) 460
1
Charcoal Diamond

Charcoal Diamond enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B}.

Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (clb) 305
1
Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.) Everflowing Chalice enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked. {T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on Everflowing Chalice.

Artifact
Everflowing Chalice (clb) 859
1
Gate to the Afterlife

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, you gain 1 life. Then you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Gate to the Afterlife: Search your graveyard, hand, and/or library for a card named God-Pharaoh's Gift and put it onto the battlefield. If you search your library this way, shuffle. Activate only if there are six or more creature cards in your graveyard.

Artifact
Gate to the Afterlife (plst) AKH-228
1
Genesis Chamber

Whenever a nontoken creature enters the battlefield, if Genesis Chamber is untapped, that creature's controller creates a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token.

Artifact
Genesis Chamber (bbd) 235
1
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (scd) 269
1
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (moc) 364
1
Nihil Spellbomb

{T}, Sacrifice Nihil Spellbomb: Exile target player's graveyard. When Nihil Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {B}. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Nihil Spellbomb (scd) 270
1
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (moc) 379
1
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (moc) 381
1
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (scd) 279
1
Unstable Obelisk

{T}: Add {C}. {7}, {T}, Sacrifice Unstable Obelisk: Destroy target permanent.

Artifact
Unstable Obelisk (scd) 286
1
Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {2}

Artifact
Whispersilk Cloak (plst) M11-221
1

Creatures

Quantity: 35Price: $40.07
Abyssal Gatekeeper

When Abyssal Gatekeeper dies, each player sacrifices a creature.

Creature
Abyssal Gatekeeper (dvd) 31
1
Big Game Hunter

When Big Game Hunter enters the battlefield, destroy target creature with power 4 or greater. It can't be regenerated. Madness {B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Big Game Hunter (tsr) 102
1
Black Cat

When Black Cat dies, target opponent discards a card at random.

Creature
Black Cat (j22) 377
1
Blood Artist

Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Blood Artist (j22) 117
1
Blood Pet

Sacrifice Blood Pet: Add {B}.

Creature
Blood Pet (plst) TMP-109
1
Bloodthrone Vampire

Sacrifice a creature: Bloodthrone Vampire gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Creature
Bloodthrone Vampire (ddp) 46
1
Bogbrew Witch

{2}, {T}: Search your library for a card named Festering Newt or Bubbling Cauldron, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Bogbrew Witch (plst) M14-88
1
Cadaver Imp

Flying When Cadaver Imp enters the battlefield, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Cadaver Imp (jmp) 215
1
Carrion Feeder

Carrion Feeder can't block. Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Carrion Feeder.

Creature
Carrion Feeder (plst) MH1-81
1
Crypt Rats

{X}: Crypt Rats deals X damage to each creature and each player. Spend only black mana on X.

Creature
Crypt Rats (j22) 392
1
Doomed Dissenter

When Doomed Dissenter dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature
Doomed Dissenter (j22) 402
1
Dusk Legion Zealot

When Dusk Legion Zealot enters the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Dusk Legion Zealot (plst) RIX-70
1
Falkenrath Noble

Flying Whenever Falkenrath Noble or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Falkenrath Noble (j22) 414
1
Fallen Angel

Flying Sacrifice a creature: Fallen Angel gets +2/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Fallen Angel (plst) A25-91
1
Festering Newt

When Festering Newt dies, target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn. That creature gets -4/-4 instead if you control a creature named Bogbrew Witch.

Creature
Festering Newt (jmp) 234
1
Fume Spitter

Sacrifice Fume Spitter: Put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Creature
Fume Spitter (uma) 95
1
Gleaming Barrier

Defender When Gleaming Barrier dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature Artifact
Gleaming Barrier (j22) 768
1
Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters the battlefield, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (scd) 80
1
Heap Doll

Sacrifice Heap Doll: Exile target card from a graveyard.

Creature Artifact
Heap Doll (uma) 228
1
Kalastria Healer

Rally — Whenever Kalastria Healer or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Kalastria Healer (bfz) 114
1
Leaden Myr

{T}: Add {B}.

Creature Artifact
Leaden Myr (som) 170
1
Marsh Flitter

Flying When Marsh Flitter enters the battlefield, create two 1/1 black Goblin Rogue creature tokens. Sacrifice a Goblin: Marsh Flitter has base power and toughness 3/3 until end of turn.

Creature
Marsh Flitter (znc) 46
1
Mindless Automaton

Mindless Automaton enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it. {1}, Discard a card: Put a +1/+1 counter on Mindless Automaton. Remove two +1/+1 counters from Mindless Automaton: Draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Mindless Automaton (moc) 365
1
Myr Sire

When Myr Sire dies, create a 1/1 colorless Phyrexian Myr artifact creature token.

Creature Artifact
Myr Sire (jmp) 475
1
Pawn of Ulamog

Whenever Pawn of Ulamog or another nontoken creature you control dies, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}."

Creature
Pawn of Ulamog (c17) 120
1
Perilous Myr

When Perilous Myr dies, it deals 2 damage to any target.

Creature Artifact
Perilous Myr (cmr) 330
1
Pitiless Plunderer

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Pitiless Plunderer (plst) RIX-81
1
Sadistic Hypnotist

Sacrifice a creature: Target player discards two cards. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Sadistic Hypnotist (plst) ODY-159
1
Soldevi Adnate

{T}, Sacrifice a black or artifact creature: Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Creature
Soldevi Adnate (all) 60b
1
Sultai Emissary

When Sultai Emissary dies, manifest the top card of your library. (Put that card onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Creature
Sultai Emissary (frf) 85
1
Tattered Mummy

When Tattered Mummy dies, each opponent loses 2 life.

Creature
Tattered Mummy (gn2) 34
1
Thoughtpicker Witch

{1}, Sacrifice a creature: Look at the top two cards of target opponent's library, then exile one of them.

Creature
Thoughtpicker Witch (rav) 109
1
Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Creature
Viscera Seer (cmr) 158
1
Weaponcraft Enthusiast

Fabricate 2 (When this creature enters the battlefield, put two +1/+1 counters on it or create two 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.)

Creature
Weaponcraft Enthusiast (kld) 105
1
Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever Zulaport Cutthroat or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Zulaport Cutthroat (clb) 775
1

Enchantments

Quantity: 5Price: $17.65
Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When Animate Dead enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment
Animate Dead (plst) EMA-78
1
Fallen Ideal

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has flying and "Sacrifice a creature: This creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn." When Fallen Ideal is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return Fallen Ideal to its owner's hand.

Enchantment
Fallen Ideal (c15) 125
1
Mind Slash

{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from it. That player discards that card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Mind Slash (8ed) 145
1
No Rest for the Wicked

Sacrifice No Rest for the Wicked: Return to your hand all creature cards in your graveyard that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

Enchantment
No Rest for the Wicked (10e) 165
1
Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (j22) 124
1

Instants

Quantity: 4Price: $4.48
Dark Dabbling

Regenerate target creature. Draw a card. (The next time the creature would be destroyed this turn, it isn't. Instead tap it, remove all damage from it, and remove it from combat.) Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, also regenerate each other creature you control.

Instant
Dark Dabbling (plst) ORI-89
1
Go for the Throat

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Instant
Go for the Throat (moc) 250
1
Tragic Slip

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

Instant
Tragic Slip (j22) 74
1
Without Weakness

Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it. If its toughness is 0 or less, it's still put into its owner's graveyard.) Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Without Weakness (hou) 81
1

Lands

Quantity: 33Price: $17.97
Barren Moor

Barren Moor enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Barren Moor (c21) 277
1
Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped. When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (moc) 391
1
Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Buried Ruin: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Buried Ruin (onc) 147
1
Mortuary Mire

Mortuary Mire enters the battlefield tapped. When Mortuary Mire enters the battlefield, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Mortuary Mire (j22) 817
1
Polluted Mire

Polluted Mire enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Polluted Mire (dmr) 253
1
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (brc) 196
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mom) 279
27

Sorceries

Quantity: 8Price: $63.00
Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Ambition's Cost (moc) 246
1
Beseech the Queen

({2/B} can be paid with any two mana or with {B}. This card's mana value is 6.) Search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Beseech the Queen (plst) SHM-57
1
Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (plst) UMA-93
1
Diabolic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (cma) 54
1
Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (j22) 413
1
Razaketh's Rite

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Razaketh's Rite (hou) 74
1
Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Victimize (moc) 270
1
Wander in Death

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Wander in Death (plst) AKH-115
1

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