Life is a resource - Duel • (Mono-Black Duel Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $2.29

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

(

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each

in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana.
Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.

Legendary Creature - Horror Minion Phyrexian

$2.29 $1.87 $0.93

Commander

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Creature

Qty: 1 Price: $11.99

Ancient Cellarspawn

Each spell you cast that's a Demon, Horror, or Nightmare costs

less to cast.
Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana spent to cast it was less than its mana value, target opponent loses life equal to the difference.

Creature Enchantment - Horror

$11.99 $6.44 $5.93

Creature

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Discard

Qty: 1 Price: $6.49

Chain of Smog

Target player discards two cards. That player may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Sorcery

$6.49 $5.50 $4.16

Discard

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Drain

Qty: 2 Price: $3.98

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each

in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature - Zombie

$1.49 $0.76 $0.52

Zulaport Cutthroat

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

Creature - Human Rogue Ally

$2.49 $3.83 $1.19

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 8 Price: $49.52

Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.

, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Legendary Artifact

$11.99 $8.15 $9.45

Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant

$0.79 $0.37 $0.31

Peer into the Abyss

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Sorcery

$5.49 $3.46 $2.96

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and lose 1 life.

Enchantment

$4.99 $4.27 $4.16

Professor Onyx

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
+1: You lose 1 life. Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
−3: Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls.
−8: Each opponent may discard a card. If they don't, they lose 3 life. Repeat this process six more times.

Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana

$8.49 $6.43 $5.48

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.38 $0.15

Vilis, Broker of Blood

Flying

, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Legendary Creature - Demon

$15.99 $10.76 $9.36

Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.

Instant

$0.99 $0.40 $0.19

Draw

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Finisher

Qty: 1 Price: $1.29

Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery

$1.29 $0.67 $0.37

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 33 (34 w/ MDFC)Price: $106.67

Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.

: Add

Land

$2.99 $2.05 $1.51

Castle Locthwain

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.

: Add

: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Land

$3.99 $4.19 $3.12

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

: Add

: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Legendary Land

$84.99 $57.39 $50.76

Swamp

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: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.14 $0.15

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 1 Price: $129.99

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian

$129.99 $102.22 $104.20

Lifegain

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Protection

Qty: 2 Price: $10.48

Kaya's Ghostform

Enchant creature or planeswalker you control
When enchanted permanent dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment - Aura

$3.49 $1.56 $1.15

Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact - Equipment

$6.99 $4.36 $4.11

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 8 Price: $51.53

Arcane Signet

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact

$0.99 $0.76 $0.40

Blood Celebrant

, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

Creature - Human Cleric

$0.79 $0.62 $0.15

Blood Pet

Sacrifice this creature: Add

Creature - Thrull

$0.99 $5.66 $0.33

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$---- $11.66 $10.32

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$32.99 $22.28 $21.36

Mind Stone

: Add

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$0.79 $0.37 $0.18

Pitiless Plunderer

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature - Human Pirate

$6.99 $4.05 $3.59

Sacrifice

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add an amount of

equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.

Instant

$7.99 $5.60 $3.38

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 6 Price: $30.34

Animate Dead

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

Enchantment - Aura

$10.99 $7.22 $3.11

Chainer, Dementia Master

All Nightmares get +1/+1.

, Pay 3 life: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is black and is a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types.
When Chainer leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

Legendary Creature - Human Minion

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Persist

Return target nonlegendary creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.

Sorcery

$2.29 $1.68 $0.64

Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Sorcery

$13.99 $9.51 $8.59

Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.42 $0.15

Victimize

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

Sorcery

$1.79 $0.70 $0.40

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 19 Price: $108.75

Bile Blight

Target creature and all other creatures with the same name as that creature get -3/-3 until end of turn.

Instant

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Bitter Triumph

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant

$0.49 $0.36 $0.15

Breathe Your Last

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You gain 1 life for each of its colors.

Instant

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Instant

$2.49 $1.25 $1.04

Dismember

(

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Instant

$4.49 $2.15 $1.14

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.33 $0.15

Fell the Profane

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant

$8.99 $5.32 $5.00

Grasp of Darkness

Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.

Instant

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$0.99 $1.04 $0.32

Noxious Gearhulk

Menace
When this creature enters, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Creature Artifact - Construct

$0.99 $0.84 $0.41

Orcish Bowmasters

Flash
When this creature enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, this creature deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.

Creature - Archer Orc

$57.99 $37.59 $36.10

Plaguecrafter

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.

Creature - Human Shaman

$0.79 $0.33 $0.28

Ravenous Chupacabra

When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Creature - Beast Horror

$1.29 $0.84 $0.43

Saw in Half

Destroy target creature. If that creature dies this way, its controller creates two tokens that are copies of that creature, except their power is half that creature's power and their toughness is half that creature's toughness. Round up each time.

Instant

$7.49 $5.78 $5.40

Sheoldred's Edict

Choose one —
• Each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a creature token of their choice.
• Each opponent sacrifices a planeswalker of their choice.

Instant

$2.49 $1.33 $0.63

Soul Shatter

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Instant

$6.49 $4.08 $4.11

Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery

$8.99 $5.70 $5.09

Ulcerate

Target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn. You lose 3 life.

Instant

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$2.79 $2.13 $1.51

Removal

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Sac Outlet

Qty: 1 Price: $4.99

Carrion Feeder

This creature can't block.
Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature - Zombie

$4.99 $3.86 $3.42

Sac Outlet

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Tutor

Qty: 16 Price: $110.61

Beseech the Queen

(

can be paid with any two mana or with

. 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

$4.49 $4.55 $3.10

Buried Alive

Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$3.49 $3.14 $1.95

Diabolic Tutor

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

Sorcery

$---- $---- $----

Dimir House Guard

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Sacrifice a creature: Regenerate this creature.
Transmute

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Creature - Skeleton

$0.39 $0.21 $0.15

Final Parting

Search your library for two cards. Put one into your hand and the other into your graveyard. Then shuffle.

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.61 $0.38

Fleshwrither

Transfigure

(

, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a creature card with the same mana value as this creature, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Transfigure only as a sorcery.)

Creature - Horror

$2.29 $4.17 $1.19

Grim Servant

Menace
When this creature enters, search your library for a card with mana value less than or equal to your devotion to black, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life. (Each

in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature - Zombie Warlock

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Grim Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

Sorcery

$32.99 $40.62 $29.89

Hoarding Broodlord

Convoke
Flying
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may play it.
Spells you cast from exile have convoke.

Creature - Dragon

$7.49 $5.60 $5.72

Insatiable Avarice

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+

— Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top.
+

— Target player draws three cards and loses 3 life.

Sorcery

$7.99 $5.46 $5.62

Mastermind's Acquisition

Choose one —
• Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
• Put a card you own from outside the game into your hand.

Sorcery

$7.49 $4.19 $5.21

Razaketh, the Foulblooded

Flying, trample
Pay 2 life, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Legendary Creature - Demon

$21.99 $15.63 $12.76

Razaketh's Rite

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

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.37 $0.15

Sidisi, Undead Vizier

Deathtouch
Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.)
When Sidisi exploits a creature, you may search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Legendary Creature - Zombie Snake

$14.99 $11.63 $6.93

Unmarked Grave

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

Sorcery

$4.49 $3.27 $2.49

Vile Entomber

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Creature - Zombie Warlock

$0.79 $0.32 $0.15

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $628.92

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.18Total Mana Value: 213.00

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Avg Mana Value: 3.18Total Mana Value: 213.00

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