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{"ops":[{"insert":"Refined since 2018. Multiple tournament wins. Mono-black inevitability distilled.\nBuilt around recursive pressure with Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed and home of Quietus Spike (#250/500)\n\nThis mono-black Commander deck is built around two explosive and synergistic win conditions. The primary line uses Bloodletter of Aclazotz or a fully leveled Warlock Class to double life loss, turning effects like Fraying Omnipotence, a kicked Scourge of the Skyclaves, or a hit with Quietus Spike into immediate lethal threats — even against players at extremely high life totals. The second core combo loops Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed with Pitiless Plunderer and Not Dead After All to generate infinite death triggers and damage. As a backup line, Painter's Servant and Grindstone provide precise single-player elimination.\n\nThe deck is powered by efficient tutors, layered card flow, and explosive ramp. Black’s tutoring suite ensures the right tool is available for the situation — removal, engine, or combo piece. Ramp ranges from mana rocks to high-output lands like Ancient Tomb, Lake of the Dead, and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx, along with burst acceleration from Throne of Eldraine. The deck is tuned to have enough mana to execute, preserving speed without sacrificing consistency.\n\nFor higher-powered tables, a recursive loop involving Temporal Extortion, Volrath's Stronghold, and either Bloodletter or Warlock Class forces opponents into an impossible choice: lose half their life (often lethal when doubled) or give extra turns — a cycle that can be repeated with sufficient resources.\n\nThis configuration is tuned to compete above its bracket without crossing into full cEDH territory.\n\n\n1️⃣ Life Compression Kill\n\n(Bloodletter / Warlock Class + Half-Life Effect)\n\nPieces Required\n\nBloodletter of Aclazotz OR Level 3 Warlock Class\n\nOne of:\n\nFraying Omnipotence\n\nKicked Scourge of the Skyclaves\n\nCombat damage with Quietus Spike\n\n➤ Fraying Omnipotence Line\n\nResolve Bloodletter (or level Warlock Class to 3).\n\nCast Fraying Omnipotence.\n\nEach opponent loses half their life (rounded up).\n\nBloodletter / Warlock doubles that life loss.\n\nOpponents are reduced to 0.\n\nResult: Table elimination from parity life totals.\n\n➤ Scourge of the Skyclaves (Kicked)\n\nResolve Bloodletter or Warlock Class (Level 3).\n\nCast Scourge with kicker.\n\nEach player loses half their life.\n\nLife loss is doubled.\n\nResult: Immediate lethal after cast trigger\n\n➤ Quietus Spike Lethal Swing\n\nEquip Quietus Spike to any creature.\n\nHave Bloodletter or Warlock Class (Level 3) active.\n\nConnect in combat.\n\nSpike halves defending player’s life (rounded up).\n\nLife loss is doubled.\n\nResult: Clean one-player elimination.\n\n2️⃣ Xiahou Death Loop\n\n(Infinite recursion engine)\n\nPieces Required: Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed, Pitiless Plunderer, Not Dead After All\n\nControl Xiahou Dun + Pitiless Plunderer.\n\nCast Not Dead After All targeting Xiahou.\n\nSacrifice Xiahou to his ability, returning a black card to hand.\n\nXiahou dies → Plunderer creates a Treasure.\n\nNot Dead After All returns Xiahou to battlefield tapped.\n\nUse Treasure to help recast Not Dead After All.\n\nRepeat.\n\nResult: Infinite death triggers, infinite recursion, and infinite damage from Not Dead After All\n\n\n3️⃣ Painter / Grindstone\n\n(Targeted library elimination)\n\nPieces Required: Painter's Servant, Grindstone\n\nSequence\n\nResolve Painter’s Servant, choose a color.\n\nActivate Grindstone targeting opponent.\n\nBecause both milled cards share a color, Grindstone repeats.\n\nEntire library is milled.\n\nResult: Opponent loses on next draw step.\n\n4️⃣ Temporal Extortion Lock\n\n(Forced choice inevitability)\n\nPieces Required: Xiahou Dun, Temporal Extortion, Volrath's Stronghold, Bloodletter or Warlock Class (Level 3)\n\nSequence\n\nCast Temporal Extortion.\n\nTable votes:\n\nNo one pays half life → You take an extra turn.\n\nSomeone pays half life → Life loss is doubled (often lethal).\n\nSacrifice Xiahou to return Temporal Extortion to hand.\n\nActivate Volrath’s Stronghold to place Xiahou on top.\n\nDraw Xiahou for turn.\n\nRecast Xiahou.\n\nRepeat next turn.\n\nResult:\nOpponents must either:\n\nLose half their life (doubled), or\n\nTake extra turns repeatedly.\n"}]}
Commander
Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed
Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)
Sacrifice Xiahou Dun: Return target black card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.
Sacrifice Xiahou Dun: Return target black card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier
Commander
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Draw
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.)
• 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
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.
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
Evolved Sleeper
: This creature becomes a Human Cleric with base power and toughness 2/2.
: If this creature is a Cleric, put a deathtouch counter on it and it becomes a Phyrexian Human Cleric with base power and toughness 3/3.
: If this creature is a Phyrexian, put a +1/+1 counter on it, then you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
: If this creature is a Cleric, put a deathtouch counter on it and it becomes a Phyrexian Human Cleric with base power and toughness 3/3.
: If this creature is a Phyrexian, put a +1/+1 counter on it, then you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Creature - Human
Warlock Class
(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, each opponent loses 1 life.
: Level 2
When this Class becomes level 2, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
: Level 3
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)
At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died this turn, each opponent loses 1 life.
: Level 2
When this Class becomes level 2, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
: Level 3
At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Enchantment - Class
Draw
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Land
Spymaster's Vault
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
: Add .
, : Target creature you control connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)
: Add .
, : Target creature you control connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)
Land
Land
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Protection
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
Protection
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Ramp
Ramp
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Recursion
Recursion
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Removal
Lethal Scheme
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for or one mana of that creature's color.)
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Each creature that convoked this spell connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)
Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Each creature that convoked this spell connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)
Instant
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
Removal
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Stax
Dauthi Voidwalker
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it.
, Sacrifice this creature: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it.
, Sacrifice this creature: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.
Creature - Rogue Dauthi
Karn, the Great Creator
Activated abilities of artifacts your opponents control can't be activated.
+1: Until your next turn, up to one target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.
−2: You may reveal an artifact card you own from outside the game or choose a face-up artifact card you own in exile. Put that card into your hand.
+1: Until your next turn, up to one target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.
−2: You may reveal an artifact card you own from outside the game or choose a face-up artifact card you own in exile. Put that card into your hand.
Legendary Planeswalker - Karn
Stax
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Tutor
Plunge into Darkness
Choose one —
• Sacrifice any number of creatures. You gain 3 life for each creature sacrificed this way.
• Pay any amount of life, then look at that many cards from the top of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and exile the rest.
Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
• Sacrifice any number of creatures. You gain 3 life for each creature sacrificed this way.
• Pay any amount of life, then look at that many cards from the top of your library. Put one of those cards into your hand and exile the rest.
Entwine (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
Instant
Tutor
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Description
{"ops":[{"insert":"Refined since 2018. Multiple tournament wins. Mono-black inevitability distilled.\nBuilt around recursive pressure with Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed and home of Quietus Spike (#250/500)\n\nThis mono-black Commander deck is built around two explosive and synergistic win conditions. The primary line uses Bloodletter of Aclazotz or a fully leveled Warlock Class to double life loss, turning effects like Fraying Omnipotence, a kicked Scourge of the Skyclaves, or a hit with Quietus Spike into immediate lethal threats — even against players at extremely high life totals. The second core combo loops Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed with Pitiless Plunderer and Not Dead After All to generate infinite death triggers and damage. As a backup line, Painter's Servant and Grindstone provide precise single-player elimination.\n\nThe deck is powered by efficient tutors, layered card flow, and explosive ramp. Black’s tutoring suite ensures the right tool is available for the situation — removal, engine, or combo piece. Ramp ranges from mana rocks to high-output lands like Ancient Tomb, Lake of the Dead, and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx, along with burst acceleration from Throne of Eldraine. The deck is tuned to have enough mana to execute, preserving speed without sacrificing consistency.\n\nFor higher-powered tables, a recursive loop involving Temporal Extortion, Volrath's Stronghold, and either Bloodletter or Warlock Class forces opponents into an impossible choice: lose half their life (often lethal when doubled) or give extra turns — a cycle that can be repeated with sufficient resources.\n\nThis configuration is tuned to compete above its bracket without crossing into full cEDH territory.\n\n\n1️⃣ Life Compression Kill\n\n(Bloodletter / Warlock Class + Half-Life Effect)\n\nPieces Required\n\nBloodletter of Aclazotz OR Level 3 Warlock Class\n\nOne of:\n\nFraying Omnipotence\n\nKicked Scourge of the Skyclaves\n\nCombat damage with Quietus Spike\n\n➤ Fraying Omnipotence Line\n\nResolve Bloodletter (or level Warlock Class to 3).\n\nCast Fraying Omnipotence.\n\nEach opponent loses half their life (rounded up).\n\nBloodletter / Warlock doubles that life loss.\n\nOpponents are reduced to 0.\n\nResult: Table elimination from parity life totals.\n\n➤ Scourge of the Skyclaves (Kicked)\n\nResolve Bloodletter or Warlock Class (Level 3).\n\nCast Scourge with kicker.\n\nEach player loses half their life.\n\nLife loss is doubled.\n\nResult: Immediate lethal after cast trigger\n\n➤ Quietus Spike Lethal Swing\n\nEquip Quietus Spike to any creature.\n\nHave Bloodletter or Warlock Class (Level 3) active.\n\nConnect in combat.\n\nSpike halves defending player’s life (rounded up).\n\nLife loss is doubled.\n\nResult: Clean one-player elimination.\n\n2️⃣ Xiahou Death Loop\n\n(Infinite recursion engine)\n\nPieces Required: Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed, Pitiless Plunderer, Not Dead After All\n\nControl Xiahou Dun + Pitiless Plunderer.\n\nCast Not Dead After All targeting Xiahou.\n\nSacrifice Xiahou to his ability, returning a black card to hand.\n\nXiahou dies → Plunderer creates a Treasure.\n\nNot Dead After All returns Xiahou to battlefield tapped.\n\nUse Treasure to help recast Not Dead After All.\n\nRepeat.\n\nResult: Infinite death triggers, infinite recursion, and infinite damage from Not Dead After All\n\n\n3️⃣ Painter / Grindstone\n\n(Targeted library elimination)\n\nPieces Required: Painter's Servant, Grindstone\n\nSequence\n\nResolve Painter’s Servant, choose a color.\n\nActivate Grindstone targeting opponent.\n\nBecause both milled cards share a color, Grindstone repeats.\n\nEntire library is milled.\n\nResult: Opponent loses on next draw step.\n\n4️⃣ Temporal Extortion Lock\n\n(Forced choice inevitability)\n\nPieces Required: Xiahou Dun, Temporal Extortion, Volrath's Stronghold, Bloodletter or Warlock Class (Level 3)\n\nSequence\n\nCast Temporal Extortion.\n\nTable votes:\n\nNo one pays half life → You take an extra turn.\n\nSomeone pays half life → Life loss is doubled (often lethal).\n\nSacrifice Xiahou to return Temporal Extortion to hand.\n\nActivate Volrath’s Stronghold to place Xiahou on top.\n\nDraw Xiahou for turn.\n\nRecast Xiahou.\n\nRepeat next turn.\n\nResult:\nOpponents must either:\n\nLose half their life (doubled), or\n\nTake extra turns repeatedly.\n"}]}