Cruwley
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{"ops":[{"insert":"This is a highly optimized, high-synergistic Mono-Black Aristocrats and Discard control deck tailored for competitive casual play, sitting firmly at the top of Bracket 3. \nPowered by Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER, the strategy thrives on maintaining a remarkably low mana curve, utilizing hyper-efficient utility creatures, recursive threats like Gravecrawler, and zero-cost sacrifice fodder such as Ornithopter to fuel explosive turns without choking your mana resources.\nThe primary subtheme of the deck revolves around heavy hand disruption, functioning as a proactive \"black counterspell\" package. \nBy deploying early-game global discard pieces like Burglar Rat and Nezumi Informant, alongside targeted espionage cards like Pilfer and Binding Negotiations, you gain absolute information control, stripping opponents of their answers before they can even cast them. \nWhen combined with the sheer power of Tergrid, God of Fright, every discarded card or sacrificed permanent instantly becomes yours, completely locking down the table.\nTo close out games, the deck features a relentless drain engine. Cards like Raiders' Wake, Blood Artist, and Vengeful Bloodwitch establish an aggressive clock, suffocating opponents' life totals every single time they lose a card or a creature dies. \nThis constant bleeding perfectly sets up Sephiroth's requirements to trigger his devastating transformation into the One-Winged Angel. Once flipped, his indestructible emblem guarantees victory, backed by backup finishers like Yawgmoth, Thran Physician or a surprise Ormendahl from Westvale Abbey.\n"}]}
Commander
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER
Whenever Sephiroth enters or attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, draw a card.
Whenever another creature dies, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. If this is the fourth time this ability has resolved this turn, transform Sephiroth.
Whenever another creature dies, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. If this is the fourth time this ability has resolved this turn, transform Sephiroth.
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier Avatar
Commander
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Death trigguer
The Masamune
As long as equipped creature is attacking, it has first strike and must be blocked if able.
Equipped creature has "If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of this creature or an emblem you own to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time."
Equip
Equipped creature has "If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of this creature or an emblem you own to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time."
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Death trigguer
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Discard
Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
Whenever an opponent discards a card, exile it from their graveyard with a stash counter on it.
During your turn, you may play cards you don't own with stash counters on them from exile, and mana of any type can be spent to cast those spells.
, : Each opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.
During your turn, you may play cards you don't own with stash counters on them from exile, and mana of any type can be spent to cast those spells.
, : Each opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Creature - Skeleton Rogue
Discard
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Drain
Entropic Battlecruiser
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery. It's an artifact creature at 8+.)
1+ | Whenever an opponent discards a card, they lose 3 life.
8+ | Flying, deathtouch
Whenever this Spacecraft attacks, each opponent discards a card. Each opponent who can't loses 3 life.
1+ | Whenever an opponent discards a card, they lose 3 life.
8+ | Flying, deathtouch
Whenever this Spacecraft attacks, each opponent discards a card. Each opponent who can't loses 3 life.
Artifact - Spacecraft
Drain
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Draw
Gonti, Lord of Luxury
Deathtouch
When Gonti enters, look at the top four cards of target opponent's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest on the bottom of that library in a random order. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.
When Gonti enters, look at the top four cards of target opponent's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest on the bottom of that library in a random order. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.
Legendary Creature - Rogue Aetherborn
Liliana, Dreadhorde General
Whenever a creature you control dies, draw a card.
+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
−4: Each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.
−9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.
+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
−4: Each player sacrifices two creatures of their choice.
−9: Each opponent chooses a permanent they control of each permanent type and sacrifices the rest.
Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana
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.)
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
Draw
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Land
Land
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Ramp
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.
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
Ramp
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Recursion
Braids's Frightful Return
Read ahead (Choose a chapter and start with that many lore counters. Add one after your draw step. Skipped chapters don't trigger. Sacrifice after III.)
I — You may sacrifice a creature. If you do, each opponent discards a card.
II — Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
III — Target opponent may sacrifice a nonland, nontoken permanent of their choice. If they don't, they lose 2 life and you draw a card.
I — You may sacrifice a creature. If you do, each opponent discards a card.
II — Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
III — Target opponent may sacrifice a nonland, nontoken permanent of their choice. If they don't, they lose 2 life and you draw a card.
Enchantment - Saga
Defiled Crypt
Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a 2/2 black Horror enchantment creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)
(You may cast either half. That door unlocks on the battlefield. As a sorcery, you may pay the mana cost of a locked door to unlock it.)
Enchantment - Room
Recursion
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Removal
Removal
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Sorcery
Sorcery
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Tokens
Tokens
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Tokens & Extras
Tokens & Extras
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{"ops":[{"insert":"This is a highly optimized, high-synergistic Mono-Black Aristocrats and Discard control deck tailored for competitive casual play, sitting firmly at the top of Bracket 3. \nPowered by Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER, the strategy thrives on maintaining a remarkably low mana curve, utilizing hyper-efficient utility creatures, recursive threats like Gravecrawler, and zero-cost sacrifice fodder such as Ornithopter to fuel explosive turns without choking your mana resources.\nThe primary subtheme of the deck revolves around heavy hand disruption, functioning as a proactive \"black counterspell\" package. \nBy deploying early-game global discard pieces like Burglar Rat and Nezumi Informant, alongside targeted espionage cards like Pilfer and Binding Negotiations, you gain absolute information control, stripping opponents of their answers before they can even cast them. \nWhen combined with the sheer power of Tergrid, God of Fright, every discarded card or sacrificed permanent instantly becomes yours, completely locking down the table.\nTo close out games, the deck features a relentless drain engine. Cards like Raiders' Wake, Blood Artist, and Vengeful Bloodwitch establish an aggressive clock, suffocating opponents' life totals every single time they lose a card or a creature dies. \nThis constant bleeding perfectly sets up Sephiroth's requirements to trigger his devastating transformation into the One-Winged Angel. Once flipped, his indestructible emblem guarantees victory, backed by backup finishers like Yawgmoth, Thran Physician or a surprise Ormendahl from Westvale Abbey.\n"}]}