Braids • (Mono-Black Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $7.49

Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Nightmare

$7.49 $4.51 $4.20

Commander

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Copy

Qty: 1 Price: $9.49

Strionic Resonator

: Copy target triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A triggered ability uses the words "when," "whenever," or "at.")

Artifact

$9.49 $6.63 $5.89

Copy

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Drain

Qty: 7 Price: $17.13

Bastion of Remembrance

When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$0.79 $0.37 $0.16

Blood Artist

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

Creature - Vampire

$4.99 $3.85 $2.66

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

$2.29 $5.11 $1.02

Marionette Apprentice

Fabricate 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.)
Whenever another creature or artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature - Human Artificer

$3.99 $1.97 $1.55

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 $1.69 $1.03

Vraan, Executioner Thane

Whenever one or more other creatures you control die, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Legendary Creature - Vampire Phyrexian

$0.79 $0.64 $0.20

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 $4.26 $1.19

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 6 Price: $70.60

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

$8.99 $6.16 $4.35

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 $13.29 $13.54

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

$0.99 $0.45 $0.31

Mephitic Draught

When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Village Rites

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

Instant

$1.29 $0.59 $0.20

Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Protection from Humans
Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card.

, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Legendary Creature - Human Cleric

$37.99 $27.50 $26.81

Draw

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Finisher

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Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.40 $0.35

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 31 Price: $97.49

Barad-dûr

Barad-dûr enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature.

: Add

: Amass Orcs X. Activate only if a creature died this turn.

Legendary Land

$2.79 $1.55 $1.09

Bojuka Bog

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

: Add

Land

$2.99 $1.69 $1.66

Drownyard Temple

: Add

: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Land

$0.49 $0.30 $0.15

Emergence Zone

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.

Land

$3.99 $4.24 $3.12

High Market

: Add

, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Land

$1.49 $2.74 $1.02

Phyrexian Tower

: Add

, Sacrifice a creature: Add

Legendary Land

$47.99 $31.05 $31.24

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $5.01 $4.16

Strip Mine

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land.

Land

$19.99 $19.86 $11.45

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.18 $0.15

Land

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Protection

Qty: 5 Price: $27.55

Imp's Mischief

Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant

$12.99 $10.35 $8.59

Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact - Equipment

$6.49 $4.64 $4.11

Not Dead After All

Until end of turn, target creature you control gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control, then create a Wicked Role token attached to it." (Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this token is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)

Instant

$2.79 $1.17 $1.00

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and

no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip

(

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

Artifact - Equipment

$3.99 $2.77 $1.85

Undying Malice

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Instant

$1.29 $0.68 $0.33

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 13 Price: $83.67

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.59 $0.36

Cabal Ritual

Add

.
Threshold — Add

instead if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

Instant

$19.99 $15.47 $12.50

Charcoal Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add

Artifact

$0.69 $0.37 $0.31

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$9.49 $6.09 $5.19

Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker

(You may pay an additional

any number of times as you cast this spell.)
This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked.

: Add

for each charge counter on this artifact.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.34 $0.20

Greedy Freebooter

When this creature dies, scry 1 and create a Treasure token. (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom. A Treasure token is an artifact with "

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

Creature - Human Pirate

$1.99 $0.71 $0.26

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$21.99 $16.24 $13.27

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 $7.35 $6.35

Pawn of Ulamog

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

Creature - Vampire Shaman

$1.29 $1.17 $0.22

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

$4.99 $4.13 $3.54

Shambling Ghast

When this creature dies, choose one —
• Target creature an opponent controls gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
• Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

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

Creature - Zombie

$1.29 $0.42 $0.17

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $2.10 $1.47

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

$5.49 $2.98 $2.64

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 9 Price: $55.47

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

$8.49 $7.73 $5.44

Gixian Puppeteer

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
When this creature dies, return another target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature - Warlock Phyrexian

$1.99 $1.21 $0.46

Gravecrawler

This creature can't block.
You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.

Creature - Zombie

$1.49 $1.36 $1.01

Necromancy

You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step.
When this enchantment enters, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach this enchantment to it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Enchantment

$23.99 $18.06 $17.34

Nether Traitor

Haste
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Whenever another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay

. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature - Spirit

$1.99 $3.26 $1.07

Persistent Specimen

: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature - Skeleton

$0.39 $0.33 $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

$15.99 $10.65 $9.50

Reassembling Skeleton

: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature - Warrior Skeleton

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

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 $0.43 $0.41

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 14 Price: $68.06

Accursed Marauder

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.

Creature - Warrior Zombie

$0.79 $0.34 $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

$0.39 $0.35 $0.15

Braids, Cabal Minion

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices an artifact, creature, or land of their choice.

Legendary Creature - Human Minion

$0.79 $1.16 $0.60

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery

$27.99 $21.70 $19.78

Defile

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

Instant

$2.79 $2.23 $1.65

Dismember

(

can be paid with either

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

Instant

$4.49 $4.25 $1.16

Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.22 $0.15

Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$0.79 $0.34 $0.17

Mutilate

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.66 $0.25

Oubliette

When this enchantment enters, target creature phases out until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. Tap that creature as it phases in this way. (Auras and Equipment phase out with it. While permanents are phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist.)

Enchantment

$3.49 $1.41 $0.76

Snuff Out

If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant

$12.99 $8.87 $5.21

Toxic Deluge

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

Sorcery

$8.49 $5.93 $4.88

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

$0.59 $0.30 $0.15

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$2.79 $2.04 $1.55

Removal

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Sac Outlet

Qty: 3 Price: $33.47

Carrion Feeder

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

Creature - Zombie

$4.49 $4.61 $3.12

Viscera Seer

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

Creature - Wizard Vampire

$0.99 $0.59 $0.33

Warren Soultrader

Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

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

Creature - Wizard Goblin Zombie

$27.99 $20.95 $18.29

Sac Outlet

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Tokens

Qty: 4 Price: $46.46

Bitterblossom

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

Enchantment Kindred - Faerie

$39.99 $32.51 $32.31

Dreadhorde Invasion

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.)
Whenever a Zombie token you control with power 6 or greater attacks, it gains lifelink until end of turn.

Enchantment

$0.69 $0.42 $0.26

Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no creatures with decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia (mid) 108

$3.49 $3.87 $1.12

Ophiomancer

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Creature - Human Shaman

$2.29 $1.15 $0.93

Tokens

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Tutor

Qty: 5 Price: $45.45

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 $4.74 $3.12

Diabolic Intent

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$19.99 $16.86 $14.84

Profane Tutor

Suspend 2—

(Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay

and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$4.49 $4.75 $3.37

Scheming Symmetry

Choose two target players. Each of them searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top.

Sorcery

$11.99 $8.67 $8.27

Wishclaw Talisman

This artifact enters with three wish counters on it.

, Remove a wish counter from this artifact: Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. An opponent gains control of this artifact. Activate only during your turn.

Artifact

$4.49 $2.31 $1.75

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $563.32

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Avg Mana Value: 2.29Total Mana Value: 158.00

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Avg Mana Value: 2.29Total Mana Value: 158.00

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