Self Cycling/Discard But Really Just A Janky Zombie Value Engine (The Raven Man) • (Mono-Black Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $0.79

The Raven Man

At the beginning of each end step, if a player discarded a card this turn, create a 1/1 black Bird creature token with flying and "This token can't block."

: Each opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$0.79 $0.41 $0.15

Commander

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Cycling

Qty: 4 Price: $1.40

Lurching Rotbeast

Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature - Beast Zombie

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Moaning Wall

Defender
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature - Zombie Wall

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Undead Gladiator

, Discard a card: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature - Zombie Barbarian

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Viscera Dragger

Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Unearth

(

: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature - Warrior Zombie Ogre

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Cycling

(CTRL to add secondary)

Discard

Qty: 2 Price: $40.34

Bone Miser

Whenever you discard a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Whenever you discard a land card, add

.
Whenever you discard a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Creature - Wizard Zombie

$39.99 $33.72 $33.57

Zombie Infestation

Discard two cards: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Discard

(CTRL to add secondary)

Drain

Qty: 2 Price: $0.84

Gempalm Polluter

Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, you may have target player lose life equal to the number of Zombies on the battlefield.

Creature - Zombie

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Gruesome Fate

Each opponent loses 1 life for each creature you control.

Sorcery

$0.49 $2.29 $0.48

Drain

(CTRL to add secondary)

Draw

Qty: 16 Price: $143.74

Anvil of Bogardan

Players have no maximum hand size.
At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player draws an additional card, then discards a card.

Artifact

$54.99 $47.42 $32.60

Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Elf Noble

$8.49 $8.55 $4.62

Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)

Enchantment

$20.99 $13.06 $13.02

Corrupted Conviction

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

Instant

$1.29 $0.36 $0.15

Cryptbreaker

, Discard a card: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Tap three untapped Zombies you control: You draw a card and lose 1 life.

Creature - Zombie

$0.69 $0.41 $0.27

Eviscerator's Insight

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards.
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost and any additional costs. Then exile it.)

Instant

$0.59 $0.27 $0.15

Graveborn Muse

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw X cards and lose X life, where X is the number of Zombies you control.

Creature - Spirit Zombie

$16.99 $19.36 $13.52

Monument to Endurance

Whenever you discard a card, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn —
• Draw a card.
• Create a Treasure token.
• Each opponent loses 3 life.

Artifact

$22.99 $16.41 $13.05

Necromancer's Stockpile

, Discard a creature card: Draw a card. If the discarded card was a Zombie card, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Enchantment

$0.59 $0.33 $0.15

Pact of the Serpent

Choose a creature type. Target player draws X cards and loses X life, where X is the number of creatures they control of the chosen type.

Sorcery

$2.29 $1.12 $1.19

Plumb the Forbidden

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way.
You draw a card and lose 1 life.

Instant

$0.99 $0.51 $0.26

Refurbished Familiar

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs

less to cast for each artifact you control.)
Flying
When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card. For each opponent who can't, you draw a card.

Creature Artifact - Rat Zombie

$0.59 $0.31 $0.15

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery

$1.79 $4.41 $0.43

Skullclamp

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

Artifact - Equipment

$8.49 $6.38 $5.21

Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.31 $0.15

Village Rites

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

Instant

$1.29 $0.79 $0.20

Draw

(CTRL to add secondary)

Land

Qty: 36 Price: $50.08

Ash Barrens

: Add

.
Basic landcycling

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Barren Moor

This land enters tapped.

: Add

.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land

$0.35 $0.65 $0.18

Blasted Landscape

: Add

.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land

$2.99 $3.16 $1.53

Bojuka Bog

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

: Add

Land

$2.99 $1.52 $1.51

Desert of the Glorified

This land enters tapped.

: Add

.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Desert

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Geier Reach Sanitarium

: Add

: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Legendary Land

$2.79 $2.92 $1.51

Mortuary Mire

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.43 $0.35

Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land

$0.59 $0.40 $0.22

Polluted Mire

This land enters tapped.

: Add

.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Scavenger Grounds

: Add

, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Land - Desert

$0.59 $0.76 $0.33

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.17 $0.15

Urborg

: Add

: Target creature loses first strike or swampwalk until end of turn.

Legendary Land

$20.99 $18.56 $8.75

War Room

: Add

, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Land

$5.49 $5.98 $3.57

Land

(CTRL to add secondary)

Protection

Qty: 1 Price: $0.79

Revenge of Ravens

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$0.79 $0.51 $0.26

Protection

(CTRL to add secondary)

Pump

Qty: 1 Price: $0.39

Dark Triumph

If you control a Swamp, you may sacrifice a creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn.

Instant

$0.39 $0.12 $0.15

Pump

(CTRL to add secondary)

Ramp

Qty: 10 Price: $33.10

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.45 $0.38

Charcoal Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add

Artifact

$0.69 $0.37 $0.31

Fellwar Stone

: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Artifact

$1.79 $1.22 $0.75

Fluctuator

Cycling abilities you activate cost

less to activate.

Artifact

$1.79 $0.78 $0.37

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$20.99 $14.73 $13.27

Mind Stone

: Add

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.42 $0.25

Skirge Familiar

Flying
Discard a card: Add

Creature - Imp Phyrexian

$0.69 $0.31 $0.15

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $1.53 $1.35

Troll of Khazad-dûm

This creature can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.
Swampcycling

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature - Troll

$1.79 $0.72 $0.15

Wayfarer's Bauble

, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.34 $0.23

Ramp

(CTRL to add secondary)

Recursion

Qty: 5 Price: $6.97

Feldon's Cane

, Exile this artifact: Shuffle your graveyard into your library.

Artifact

$0.49 $0.43 $0.28

Thran Foundry

, Exile this artifact: Target player shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.48 $0.25

Tortured Existence

, Discard a creature card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment

$4.99 $3.20 $2.77

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 $0.47 $0.39

Wander in Death

Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Recursion

(CTRL to add secondary)

Removal

Qty: 16 Price: $81.88

Archfiend of Ifnir

Flying
Whenever you cycle or discard another card, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature your opponents control.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature - Demon

$0.79 $0.35 $0.25

Bone Shards

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

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.23 $0.15

Crypt Incursion

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You gain 3 life for each card exiled this way.

Instant

$0.49 $0.34 $0.15

Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.37 $0.15

Easy Prey

Destroy target creature with mana value 2 or less.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Expunge

Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.28 $0.23

Gate to Phyrexia

Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target artifact. Activate only during your upkeep and only once each turn.

Enchantment

$74.99 $58.21 $30.63

Locust Spray

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Memory Leak

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from that player's graveyard or hand and exile it.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Mindleech Ghoul

Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.)
When this creature exploits a creature, each opponent exiles a card from their hand.

Creature - Zombie

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

No Way Out

Target opponent discards two cards. You create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Rapid Decay

Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant

$0.69 $0.45 $0.34

Scarab Feast

Exile up to three target cards from a single graveyard.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Swat

Destroy target creature with power 2 or less.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.08 $0.15

Unburden

Target player discards two cards.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.10 $0.15

Removal

(CTRL to add secondary)

Tokens

Qty: 4 Price: $1.88

Dying to Serve

Whenever you discard one or more cards, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Enchantment

$0.69 $0.36 $0.15

From Under the Floorboards

Madness

(If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Create three tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens and you gain 3 life. If this spell's madness cost was paid, instead create X of those tokens and you gain X life.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.30 $0.15

Skirk Ridge Exhumer

, Discard a card: Create a 1/1 black Zombie Goblin creature token named Festering Goblin. It has "When this token dies, target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn."

Creature - Zombie Spellshaper

$0.35 $0.31 $0.19

Stir the Sands

Create three 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.10 $0.15

Tokens

(CTRL to add secondary)

Tutor

Qty: 3 Price: $1.93

Brainspoil

Destroy target creature that isn't enchanted. It can't be regenerated.
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.)

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

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

$0.79 $0.33 $0.15

Shred Memory

Exile up to four target cards from a single graveyard.
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.)

Instant

$0.79 $0.81 $0.45

Tutor

(CTRL to add secondary)

Maybeboard

Qty: 32 Price: $87.22

Baleful Mastery

You may pay

rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the

cost was paid, an opponent draws a card.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Instant

$3.49 $2.54 $2.30

Blood Pact

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Instant

$0.69 $0.28 $0.15

Burnished Hart

, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact - Elk

$0.39 $0.16 $0.15

Currency Converter

Whenever you discard a card, you may exile that card from your graveyard.

: Draw a card, then discard a card.

: Put a card exiled with this artifact into its owner's graveyard. If it's a land card, create a Treasure token. If it's a nonland card, create a 2/2 black Rogue creature token.

Artifact

$3.99 $3.65 $0.91

Damnable Pact

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.92 $0.41

Death Pulse

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

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, you may have target creature get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Instant

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Dirge of Dread

All creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, you may have target creature gain fear until end of turn.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Feast of Sanity

Whenever you discard a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to any target and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.30 $0.15

Geth's Grimoire

Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may draw a card.

Artifact - Book

$8.49 $9.48 $6.21

Haunted Fengraf

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Return a creature card at random from your graveyard to your hand.

Land

$0.49 $0.34 $0.15

Heraldic Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0.

: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Artifact

$0.49 $0.35 $0.15

Hollow One

This spell costs

less to cast for each card you've cycled or discarded this turn.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature Artifact - Golem

$0.59 $0.31 $0.15

Horror of the Broken Lands

Whenever you cycle or discard another card, this creature gets +2/+1 until end of turn.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature - Horror

$0.35 $0.10 $0.15

Leaden Myr

: Add

Creature Artifact - Myr

$0.39 $0.63 $0.30

Malakir Rebirth

Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Instant

Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111

$18.99 $13.14 $13.02

Mask of Memory

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw two cards. If you do, discard a card.
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$0.79 $1.71 $0.26

Memorial to Folly

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Minion's Return

Flash
Enchant creature
When enchanted creature dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.59 $0.36 $0.15

Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature - Human Rogue

$0.59 $0.39 $0.25

Nightmare Unmaking

Choose one —
• Exile each creature with power greater than the number of cards in your hand.
• Exile each creature with power less than the number of cards in your hand.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.36 $0.15

Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment

$5.49 $4.35 $3.03

Pip-Boy 3000

Whenever equipped creature attacks, choose one —
• Sort Inventory — Draw a card, then discard a card.
• Pick a Perk — Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.
• Check Map — Untap up to two target lands.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$5.99 $6.67 $4.22

Relic of Legends

: Add one mana of any color.
Tap an untapped legendary creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

$1.99 $2.32 $0.79

Ruthless Sniper

Whenever you cycle or discard a card, you may pay

. If you do, put a -1/-1 counter on target creature.

Creature - Human Archer

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Sanctum of Eternity

: Add

: Return target commander you own from the battlefield to your hand. Activate only during your turn.

Land

$9.49 $7.48 $6.24

Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact - Golem

$0.49 $0.37 $0.15

Suffocating Fumes

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant

$0.69 $0.20 $0.15

The Immortal Sun

Players can't activate planeswalkers' loyalty abilities.
At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card.
Spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Creatures you control get +1/+1.

Legendary Artifact

$17.99 $12.88 $10.07

Vile Manifestation

This creature gets +1/+0 for each card with cycling in your graveyard.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature - Horror

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Void Beckoner

Deathtouch
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, put a deathtouch counter on target creature you control.

Creature - Horror Nightmare

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Wasteland Scorpion

Deathtouch
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature - Scorpion

$0.35 $0.07 $0.15

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 still dies.)
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Maybeboard

(CTRL to add secondary)

Deck Info

Deck size: 101Est cost: $364.13

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.82Total Mana Value: 183.00

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Avg Mana Value: 2.82Total Mana Value: 183.00

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