Recursion Is Easy • (Mono-Black Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $10.99

Zul Ashur, Lich Lord

Ward—Pay 2 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 2 life.)

: You may cast target Zombie creature card from your graveyard this turn.

Legendary Creature - Zombie Warlock

$10.99 $7.57 $4.87

Commander

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Anthem

Qty: 3 Price: $7.43

Cemetery Reaper

Other Zombie creatures you control get +1/+1.

: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature - Zombie

$0.59 $0.33 $0.15

Death Baron

Skeletons you control and other Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have deathtouch. (Any amount of damage they deal to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature - Wizard Zombie

$6.49 $4.88 $3.56

Lord of the Accursed

Other Zombies you control get +1/+1.

: All Zombies gain menace until end of turn.

Creature - Zombie

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Anthem

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Counters

Qty: 1 Price: $0.99

Putrid Goblin

Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Creature - Goblin Zombie

$0.99 $0.49 $0.36

Counters

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Discard

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Chain of Smog

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

Sorcery

$6.99 $7.00 $4.92

Discard

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Drain

Qty: 8 Price: $11.98

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

$0.69 $0.38 $0.20

Blood Artist

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

Creature - Vampire

$4.49 $3.92 $2.24

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 $0.28 $0.15

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 $4.17 $1.00

Plague Belcher

Menace
When this creature enters, put two -1/-1 counters on target creature you control.
Whenever another Zombie you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature - Beast Zombie

$0.79 $0.50 $0.15

Shepherd of Rot

: Each player loses 1 life for each Zombie on the battlefield.

Creature - Cleric Zombie

$0.99 $2.20 $0.15

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

$1.49 $1.76 $0.82

Vengeful Dead

Whenever this creature or another Zombie dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature - Zombie

$0.69 $0.28 $0.15

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 15 Price: $43.53

Archghoul of Thraben

Whenever this creature or another Zombie you control dies, look at the top card of your library. If it's a Zombie card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, you may put it into your graveyard.

Creature - Cleric Zombie

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

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

$12.99 $15.51 $11.86

Corpse Augur

When this creature dies, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of creature cards in target player's graveyard.

Creature - Wizard Zombie

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Corrupted Conviction

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

Instant

$0.69 $0.37 $0.15

Diresight

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.)

Sorcery

$0.39 $0.30 $0.15

Fell Stinger

Deathtouch
Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.)
When this creature exploits a creature, target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Creature - Zombie Scorpion

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Liliana's Standard Bearer

Flash
When this creature enters, draw X cards, where X is the number of creatures that died under your control this turn.

Creature - Knight Zombie

$0.49 $0.35 $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

$1.99 $0.99 $1.27

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

$7.49 $5.28 $3.60

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

$0.49 $0.29 $0.17

Reckoner's Bargain

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
You gain life equal to the sacrificed permanent's mana value. Draw two cards.

Instant

$2.29 $0.98 $0.55

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery

$1.29 $2.81 $0.46

Teval's Judgment

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn —
• Draw a card.
• Create a Treasure token.
• Create a 2/2 black Zombie Druid creature token.

Enchantment

$12.99 $9.69 $8.24

Undead Augur

Whenever this creature or another Zombie you control dies, you draw a card and lose 1 life.

Creature - Wizard Zombie

$0.39 $0.30 $0.15

Village Rites

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

Instant

$0.99 $1.06 $0.18

Draw

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Evasion

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

Mogis's Marauder

When this creature enters, up to X target creatures each gain intimidate and haste until end of turn, where X is your devotion to black. (A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it. Each

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

Creature - Human Berserker

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Evasion

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Finisher

Qty: 1 Price: $5.99

Unstoppable Slasher

Deathtouch
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, they lose half their life, rounded up.
When this creature dies, if it had no counters on it, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with two stun counters on it.

Creature - Zombie Assassin

$5.99 $4.24 $4.36

Finisher

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Land

Qty: 36 Price: $32.04

Bojuka Bog

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

: Add

Land

$3.49 $1.53 $1.27

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

$5.49 $4.34 $3.58

Crypt of Agadeem

This land enters tapped.

: Add

for each black creature card in your graveyard.

Land

$4.99 $3.90 $3.02

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

$0.79 $0.43 $0.46

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.12 $0.15

Unholy Grotto

: Add

: Put target Zombie card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land

$0.79 $0.41 $0.26

Witch's Cottage

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land - Swamp

$1.79 $1.05 $0.53

Land

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Protection

Qty: 1 Price: $1.29

Zombie Master

Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
Other Zombies have "

: Regenerate this permanent."

Creature - Zombie

$1.29 $0.41 $0.25

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 9 Price: $100.21

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.46 $0.44

Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add

Artifact

$19.99 $15.52 $13.02

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

$5.99 $3.65 $3.39

Crypt Ghast

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay

. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional

Creature - Spirit

$21.99 $15.16 $14.05

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$11.99 $7.20 $6.04

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$19.99 $13.26 $11.94

Liliana of the Dark Realms

+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
−3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control.
−6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '

: Add

.'"

Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana

$14.99 $8.98 $8.00

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 $0.35 $0.18

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $1.52 $1.59

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 9 Price: $55.77

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

$7.99 $7.38 $4.43

Cemetery Recruitment

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. If it's a Zombie card, draw a card.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.27 $0.15

Coffin Queen

You may choose not to untap this creature during your untap step.

: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. When this creature becomes untapped or you lose control of this creature, exile that creature.

Creature - Wizard Zombie

$0.99 $0.54 $0.17

Gravecrawler

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

Creature - Zombie

$1.99 $1.41 $1.02

Gravedigger

When this creature enters, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature - Zombie

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Liliana, Death Mage

+1: Return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
−3: Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 2 life.
−7: Target opponent loses 2 life for each creature card in their graveyard.

Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana

$1.49 $0.94 $0.22

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
Whenever a Human deals damage to you, destroy it.
Other non-Human creatures you control get +1/+1 and have undying. (When a creature with undying dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Legendary Creature - Cleric Zombie

$27.99 $21.89 $18.72

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 $5.88 $6.77

Zombie Apocalypse

Return all Zombie creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped, then destroy all Humans.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.55 $0.38

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 11 Price: $10.49

Accursed Marauder

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

Creature - Warrior Zombie

$0.59 $0.35 $0.15

Call to the Grave

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices a non-Zombie creature of their choice.
At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice this enchantment.

Enchantment

$0.79 $1.44 $0.38

Consuming Corruption

Consuming Corruption deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Instant

$0.99 $0.36 $0.20

Crippling Fear

Choose a creature type. Creatures that aren't of the chosen type get -3/-3 until end of turn.

Sorcery

$1.29 $3.32 $0.60

Deadly Plot

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

Instant

$0.59 $0.33 $0.27

Doom Blade

Destroy target nonblack creature.

Instant

$0.39 $0.28 $0.15

Final Act

Choose one or more —
• Destroy all creatures.
• Destroy all planeswalkers.
• Destroy all battles.
• Exile all graveyards.
• Each opponent loses all counters.

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.40 $0.15

Forced March

Destroy all creatures with mana value X or less.

Sorcery

$1.99 $1.03 $0.48

Mutilate

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

Sorcery

$1.99 $2.64 $1.03

Necromantic Selection

Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.31 $0.15

Necrotic Hex

Each player sacrifices six creatures of their choice. You create six tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.29 $0.16

Removal

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Sac Outlet

Qty: 2 Price: $28.48

Carrion Feeder

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

Creature - Zombie

$5.49 $4.23 $3.97

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

$22.99 $18.69 $17.19

Sac Outlet

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Tokens

Qty: 7 Price: $23.53

Army of the Damned

Create thirteen tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Flashback

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

Sorcery

$1.99 $1.19 $1.10

Diregraf Colossus

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each Zombie card in your graveyard.
Whenever you cast a Zombie spell, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature - Zombie Giant

$6.49 $5.06 $4.83

Endless Ranks of the Dead

At the beginning of your upkeep, create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is half the number of Zombies you control, rounded down.

Enchantment

$7.99 $5.59 $5.16

Grave Titan

Deathtouch
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, create two 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Creature - Giant

$1.29 $0.35 $0.15

Headless Rider

Whenever this creature or another nontoken Zombie you control dies, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature - Zombie

$2.99 $4.01 $1.69

Rise of the Dread Marn

Create X 2/2 black Zombie Berserker creature tokens, where X is the number of nontoken creatures that died this turn.
Foretell

(During your turn, you may pay

and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant

$1.29 $0.60 $0.38

Tormod, the Desecrator

Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Legendary Creature - Wizard Zombie

$1.49 $0.79 $0.28

Tokens

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Tutor

Qty: 4 Price: $28.56

Buried Alive

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

Sorcery

$2.79 $2.77 $1.49

Corpse Harvester

, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a Zombie card and a Swamp card, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature - Wizard Zombie

$1.29 $2.64 $0.89

Entomb

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

Instant

$23.99 $16.88 $15.47

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

$0.49 $0.25 $0.15

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck size: 110Est cost: $368.62

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.31Total Mana Value: 245.00

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Avg Mana Value: 3.31Total Mana Value: 245.00

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