Ardyn, the Usurper • (Mono-Black Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Demons Graveyard Reanimator Self-Mill

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Demons Graveyard Reanimator Self-Mill

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Ardyn, the Usurper

Demons you control have menace, lifelink, and haste.
Starscourge — At the beginning of combat on your turn, exile up to one target creature card from a graveyard. If you exiled a card this way, create a token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 5/5 black Demon.

Legendary Creature - Human Elder Noble

$5.99 $3.83 $2.39

Commander

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The Darkness Crystal

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.
If a nontoken creature an opponent controls would die, instead exile it and you gain 2 life.

: Put target creature card exiled with The Darkness Crystal onto the battlefield tapped under your control with two additional +1/+1 counters on it.

Legendary Artifact

$6.99 $4.95 $3.81

Artifact

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Emeritus of Woe

This creature enters prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)
At the beginning of your end step, if two or more creatures died this turn, this creature becomes prepared.

Creature - Vampire Warlock

Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor (sos) 80

$16.99 $11.15 $10.78

Scheming Silvertongue

Flying, lifelink
At the beginning of your second main phase, if you gained 2 or more life this turn, this creature becomes prepared. (While it's prepared, you may cast a copy of its spell. Doing so unprepares it.)

Creature - Vampire Warlock

Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood (sos) 99

$2.79 $2.07 $0.72

Shinra Reinforcements

When this creature enters, mill three cards and you gain 3 life. (To mill three cards, put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature - Human Soldier

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Creature

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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

$2.49 $4.45 $0.96

Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent.

: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Legendary Creature - Human Knight

$1.79 $1.04 $1.04

Drain

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Archon of Cruelty

Flying
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.

Creature - Archon

$8.99 $7.48 $5.78

Bloodgift Demon

Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, target player draws a card and loses 1 life.

Creature - Demon

$1.49 $0.46 $0.26

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

$13.99 $16.08 $10.94

Corrupted Conviction

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

Instant

$0.99 $0.33 $0.15

Costly Plunder

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

Instant

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Cruel Truths

Surveil 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Dark Confidant

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Creature - Human Wizard

$9.49 $5.93 $5.21

Demonic Covenant

Whenever one or more Demons you control attack a player, you draw a card and lose 1 life.
At the beginning of your end step, create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying, then mill two cards. If two cards that share all their card types were milled this way, sacrifice this enchantment.

Enchantment Kindred - Demon

$0.49 $0.31 $0.15

Infernal Sovereign

Flying, trample
Skip your draw step.
Whenever you play a land or cast a spell, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature - Demon

$0.99 $0.45 $0.31

Necropotence

Skip your draw step.
Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard.
Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Enchantment

$39.99 $34.82 $34.09

Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

Sorcery

$1.29 $0.65 $0.31

Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment

$4.99 $4.05 $3.09

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery

$0.39 $0.37 $0.15

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery

$1.49 $4.25 $0.39

Vanquisher's Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

Artifact

$6.99 $5.96 $4.37

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

$14.99 $10.12 $9.36

Draw

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Blade of the Oni

Menace
Equipped creature has base power and toughness 5/5, has menace, and is a black Demon in addition to its other colors and types.
Reconfigure

(

: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Creature Artifact - Equipment Demon

$2.49 $1.59 $0.89

Cover of Darkness

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures of the chosen type have fear. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Enchantment

$13.99 $7.86 $7.24

Evasion

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Fight On!

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

Instant

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Sephiroth's Intervention

Destroy target creature. You gain 2 life.

Instant

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Instant

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Bojuka Bog

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

: Add

Land

$2.99 $1.90 $1.57

Cabal Coffers

: Add

for each Swamp you control.

Land

$34.99 $21.85 $24.02

Command Beacon

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Land

$14.99 $8.56 $7.07

Evolving Wilds

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

Land

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$5.99 $4.64 $4.16

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.31 $0.15

War Room

: Add

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

Land

$4.49 $4.88 $3.57

Land

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Appendage Amalgam

Flash
Whenever this creature attacks, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Creature Enchantment - Horror

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Doom Whisperer

Flying, trample
Pay 2 life: Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Creature - Demon Nightmare

$8.49 $6.15 $3.88

Screaming Phantom

Flying
Whenever this creature attacks, mill a card. (Put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature - Spirit

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Stitcher's Supplier

When this creature enters or dies, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature - Zombie

$0.99 $0.31 $0.18

The Master of Lake-town

Deathtouch
Whenever a player loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)
When The Master of Lake-town dies, draw a card for each graveyard with seven or more cards in it.

Legendary Creature - Human Advisor

$0.49 $0.37 $0.15

Mill

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Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer

+1: Surveil 2.
−1: Any number of target players each discard a card.
−2: Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
−7: Flip five coins. Target opponent skips their next X turns, where X is the number of coins that came up heads.

Legendary Planeswalker - Ral

$4.99 $3.38 $1.82

Planeswalker

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Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact - Equipment

$5.99 $4.73 $4.16

Protection

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$1.29 $1.02 $0.52

Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Legendary Artifact

$3.99 $2.81 $2.58

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

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Gilded Lotus

: Add three mana of any one color.

Artifact

$1.49 $1.01 $0.61

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$20.99 $17.35 $15.36

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

$4.99 $2.89 $1.64

Master of Dark Rites

, Sacrifice another creature: Add

. Spend this mana only to cast Vampire, Cleric, and/or Demon spells.

Creature - Vampire Cleric

$4.49 $6.41 $4.05

Nirkana Revenant

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional

: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature - Vampire Shade

$11.99 $7.06 $6.61

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $3.47 $1.99

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

$0.59 $0.33 $0.26

Throne of Eldraine

As Throne of Eldraine enters, choose a color.

: Add four mana of the chosen color. Spend this mana only to cast monocolored spells of that color.

: Draw two cards. Spend only mana of the chosen color to activate this ability.

Legendary Artifact

$42.99 $29.97 $27.09

Ramp

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Live or Die

Choose one —
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Destroy target creature.

Instant

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

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

$12.99 $8.65 $7.88

Reaping the Graves

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Instant

$0.69 $0.29 $0.15

Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian

$18.99 $18.54 $16.51

Stitch Together

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Threshold — Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

Sorcery

$1.29 $0.38 $0.23

Virtue of Persistence

At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment

Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn (woe) 115

$10.99 $7.26 $5.63

Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink.

: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Legendary Artifact Enchantment

$13.99 $9.75 $9.15

Young Necromancer

When this creature enters, you may exile two cards from your graveyard. When you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature - Human Warlock

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Recursion

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Archfiend of Depravity

Flying
At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures they control, then sacrifices the rest.

Creature - Demon

$5.49 $8.63 $5.41

Blasphemous Edict

You may pay

rather than pay this spell's mana cost if there are thirteen or more creatures on the battlefield.
Each player sacrifices thirteen creatures of their choice.

Sorcery

$7.99 $5.32 $4.22

Demon of Loathing

Flying, trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature - Demon

$1.29 $0.52 $0.26

Herald of Anguish

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for

.)
Flying
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent discards a card.

, Sacrifice an artifact: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Creature - Demon

$0.99 $0.37 $0.15

Massacre Wurm

When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.

Creature - Wurm Phyrexian

$6.99 $4.81 $4.04

Vile Mutilator

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or enchantment.
Flying, trample
When this creature enters, each opponent sacrifices a nontoken enchantment of their choice, then sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.

Creature - Demon

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Removal

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Ob Nixilis, Unshackled

Flying, trample
Whenever an opponent searches their library, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice and loses 10 life.
Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Ob Nixilis.

Legendary Creature - Demon

$5.49 $4.30 $2.75

Stax

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Blood Speaker

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may sacrifice this creature. If you do, search your library for a Demon card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Whenever a Demon you control enters, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature - Shaman Ogre

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Buried Alive

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

Sorcery

$2.99 $2.72 $1.88

Diabolic Tutor

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

Sorcery

$1.99 $1.65 $0.78

Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire

Deathtouch
Boast —

: Target player searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)

Legendary Creature - Demon Rogue

$5.99 $4.02 $3.11

Tutor

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Koh, the Face Stealer

When Koh enters, exile up to one other target creature.
Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may exile it.
Pay 1 life: Choose a creature card exiled with Koh.
Koh has all activated and triggered abilities of the last chosen card.

Legendary Creature - Spirit Shapeshifter

$0.99 $0.92 $0.30

Liliana's Contract

When this enchantment enters, you draw four cards and you lose 4 life.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control four or more Demons with different names, you win the game.

Enchantment

$5.99 $4.80 $2.18

Sideboard

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Copy

(This token can be used to represent a token that's a copy of a permanent.)

Token

$0.59 $---- $0.34

Tokens & Extras

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $465.25

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 4.03Total Mana Value: 258.00

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Avg Mana Value: 4.03Total Mana Value: 258.00

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