Despair • (Mono-Black Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $18.99

Tinybones, Trinket Thief

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent discarded a card this turn, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

: Each opponent with no cards in hand loses 10 life.

Legendary Creature - Skeleton Rogue

$18.99 $16.11 $13.69

Commander

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Artifact

Qty: 10 Price: $134.77

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.43 $0.46

Commander's Sphere

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Ensnaring Bridge

Creatures with power greater than the number of cards in your hand can't attack.

Artifact

$14.99 $11.39 $10.12

Geth's Grimoire

Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may draw a card.

Artifact - Book

$8.49 $9.09 $7.08

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$19.99 $12.76 $11.46

Lightning Greaves

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

Artifact - Equipment

$---- $---- $----

Monument to Endurance

Whenever you discard a card, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn —
• Draw a card.
• Create a Treasure token.
• Each opponent loses 3 life.

Artifact

$24.99 $19.59 $14.56

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$4.99 $4.10 $1.92

Tergrid, God of Fright

Menace
Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent or discards a permanent card, you may put that card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Legendary Creature - God

Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern (khm) 112

$24.99 $19.58 $16.09

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

$34.99 $32.45 $25.56

Artifact

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Creature

Qty: 10 Price: $10.96

Archfiend of Ifnir

Flying
Whenever you cycle or discard another card, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature your opponents control.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature - Demon

$0.79 $0.39 $0.20

Elderfang Disciple

When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature - Cleric Elf

$0.59 $0.23 $0.15

Fell Specter

Flying
When this creature enters, target opponent discards a card.
Whenever an opponent discards a card, that player loses 2 life.

Creature - Specter

$1.29 $0.34 $0.26

Hypnotic Specter

Flying
Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

Creature - Specter

$3.49 $1.94 $1.86

Junji, the Midnight Sky

Flying, menace
When Junji dies, choose one —
• Each opponent discards two cards and loses 2 life.
• Put target non-Dragon creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose 2 life.

Legendary Creature - Dragon Spirit

$1.29 $0.79 $0.60

Plaguecrafter

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.

Creature - Human Shaman

$0.39 $0.35 $0.19

Sangromancer

Flying
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may gain 3 life.
Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may gain 3 life.

Creature - Vampire Shaman

$1.49 $1.46 $0.75

Stony-Voiced Goblins

When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature - Goblin Bard

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

The Raven Man

At the beginning of each end step, if a player discarded a card this turn, create a 1/1 black Bird creature token with flying and "This token can't block."

: Each opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$0.79 $0.43 $0.20

Tinybones, Pocket Nuisance

When Tinybones enters, each opponent discards a card.
Whenever a player discards one or more cards, Tinybones deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Legendary Creature - Skeleton Rogue

$0.49 $2.86 $0.56

Creature

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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

$6.49 $6.86 $4.63

Cunning Lethemancer

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player discards a card.

Creature - Human Wizard

$9.49 $5.59 $3.46

Fraying Omnipotence

Each player loses half their life, then discards half the cards in their hand, then sacrifices half the creatures they control of their choice. Round up each time.

Sorcery

$1.79 $0.69 $0.59

Inquisition of Kozilek

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it with mana value 3 or less. That player discards that card.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.69 $0.48

Necrogen Mists

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card.

Enchantment

$15.99 $12.27 $7.65

Noxious Vapors

Each player reveals their hand, chooses one card of each color from it, then discards all other nonland cards.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Oppression

Whenever a player casts a spell, that player discards a card.

Enchantment

$11.99 $6.00 $----

Rankle, Master of Pranks

Flying, haste
Whenever Rankle deals combat damage to a player, choose any number —
• Each player discards a card.
• Each player loses 1 life and draws a card.
• Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Legendary Creature - Rogue Faerie

$3.49 $2.80 $2.18

Rotting Rats

When this creature enters, each player discards a card.
Unearth

(

: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature - Rat Zombie

$1.99 $1.54 $0.93

Discard

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Draw

Qty: 5 Price: $11.35

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 $0.43 $0.35

Greed

, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Enchantment

$0.79 $0.36 $0.15

Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.34 $0.15

Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment

$7.49 $4.32 $4.15

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery

$1.29 $3.20 $0.47

Draw

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Enchantment

Qty: 4 Price: $27.96

Court of Ambition

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 3 life unless they discard a card. If you're the monarch, instead each opponent loses 6 life unless they discard two cards.

Enchantment

$8.49 $5.54 $4.30

Liliana's Caress

Whenever an opponent discards a card, that player loses 2 life.

Enchantment

$7.99 $5.23 $3.64

Megrim

Whenever an opponent discards a card, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.

Enchantment

$1.49 $3.00 $0.60

Waste Not

Whenever an opponent discards a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Whenever an opponent discards a land card, add

.
Whenever an opponent discards a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Enchantment

$9.99 $8.73 $6.13

Enchantment

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Finisher

Qty: 1 Price: $42.99

Torment of Hailfire

Repeat the following process X times. Each opponent loses 3 life unless that player sacrifices a nonland permanent of their choice or discards a card.

Sorcery

$42.99 $41.64 $37.50

Finisher

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Instant

Qty: 8 Price: $108.52

Baleful Mastery

You may pay

rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
If the

cost was paid, an opponent draws a card.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Instant

$4.99 $2.79 $2.34

Cut Down

Destroy target creature with total power and toughness 5 or less.

Instant

$2.79 $2.75 $2.71

Darkness

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant

$29.99 $24.03 $16.79

Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.

Instant

$42.99 $28.62 $27.69

Defile

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

Instant

$2.79 $1.39 $0.55

Force of Despair

If it's not your turn, you may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy all creatures that entered this turn.

Instant

$9.99 $7.30 $6.55

Imp's Mischief

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

Instant

$10.99 $9.33 $7.43

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$3.99 $3.13 $2.08

Instant

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Land

Qty: 36 Price: $188.64

Bojuka Bog

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

: Add

Land

$3.49 $1.46 $1.50

Cabal Coffers

: Add

for each Swamp you control.

Land

$37.99 $31.05 $23.71

Cabal Stronghold

: Add

for each basic Swamp you control.

Land

$21.99 $12.45 $11.46

Geier Reach Sanitarium

: Add

: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Legendary Land

$3.99 $2.23 $1.84

Phyrexian Tower

: Add

, Sacrifice a creature: Add

Legendary Land

$39.99 $30.17 $29.16

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$2.49 $0.84 $0.15

War Room

: Add

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

Land

$6.49 $6.00 $4.16

Land

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Lifegain

Qty: 1 Price: $47.99

Bloodthirsty Conqueror

Flying, deathtouch
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature - Knight Vampire

$47.99 $38.34 $33.84

Lifegain

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Protection

Qty: 1 Price: $10.99

Crawlspace

No more than two creatures can attack you each combat.

Artifact

$10.99 $10.08 $8.22

Protection

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Recursion

Qty: 1 Price: $15.99

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 $9.16 $9.49

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 4 Price: $36.16

Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery

$0.39 $0.22 $0.15

Maha, Its Feathers Night

Flying, trample
Ward—Discard a card.
Creatures your opponents control have base toughness 1.

Legendary Creature - Elemental Bird

$24.99 $20.99 $18.98

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

$9.49 $5.68 $5.04

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

$1.29 $0.45 $0.19

Removal

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Sorcery

Qty: 7 Price: $25.65

Awaken the Erstwhile

Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then creates that many 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.39 $0.15

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

$7.49 $4.83 $3.81

Dark Deal

Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards minus one.

Sorcery

$5.49 $4.10 $0.96

Duress

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Pilfer

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Smallpox

Each player loses 1 life, discards a card, sacrifices a creature of their choice, then sacrifices a land of their choice.

Sorcery

$0.39 $0.39 $0.15

Thoughtseize

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.

Sorcery

$10.99 $8.29 $7.17

Sorcery

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Tutor

Qty: 2 Price: $16.48

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 $9.32 $7.68

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 $2.05 $1.15

Tutor

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Sideboard

Qty: 31 Price: $224.65

Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal

Flying, lifelink
Whenever Aclazotz attacks, each opponent discards a card. For each opponent who can't, you draw a card.
Whenever an opponent discards a land card, create a 1/1 black Bat creature token with flying.
When Aclazotz dies, return it to the battlefield tapped and transformed under its owner's control.

Legendary Creature - Bat God

Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead (lci) 88

$12.99 $10.03 $8.06

Arguel's Blood Fast

, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have 5 or less life, you may transform Arguel's Blood Fast.

Legendary Enchantment

Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz (xln) 90

$0.69 $0.32 $0.20

Bottomless Pit

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card at random.

Enchantment

$7.99 $6.96 $3.79

Bubbling Muck

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional

Sorcery

$3.99 $2.22 $1.70

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 $14.98 $14.05

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery

$29.99 $21.09 $20.74

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$11.99 $6.88 $6.05

Delirium Skeins

Each player discards three cards.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.31 $0.20

Divest

Target player reveals their hand. You choose an artifact or creature card from it. That player discards that card.

Sorcery

$0.39 $0.25 $0.15

Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.38 $0.21

Faith of the Devoted

Whenever you cycle or discard a card, you may pay

. If you do, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Enchantment

$0.59 $0.43 $0.15

Go for the Throat

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Instant

$1.29 $0.36 $0.30

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 $3.68 $1.00

Ill-Gotten Gains

Exile Ill-Gotten Gains. Each player discards their hand, then returns up to three cards from their graveyard to their hand.

Sorcery

$0.79 $1.18 $0.28

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

$4.99 $2.43 $2.45

Mind Twist

Target player discards X cards at random.

Sorcery

$24.99 $---- $21.32

Necrogoyf

Necrogoyf's power is equal to the number of creature cards in all graveyards.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card.
Madness

(If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature - Lhurgoyf

$0.49 $0.33 $0.15

Opposition Agent

Flash
You control your opponents while they're searching their libraries.
While an opponent is searching their library, they exile each card they find. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast them.

Creature - Human Rogue

$24.99 $21.61 $17.70

Painful Quandary

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

Enchantment

$2.99 $2.77 $1.04

Pointed Discussion

You draw two cards, lose 2 life, then create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "

, Discard a card, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Rush of Dread

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+

— Target opponent sacrifices half the creatures they control of their choice, rounded up.
+

— Target opponent discards half the cards in their hand, rounded up.
+

— Target opponent loses half their life, rounded up.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.41 $0.15

Saw in Half

Destroy target creature. If that creature dies this way, its controller creates two tokens that are copies of that creature, except their power is half that creature's power and their toughness is half that creature's toughness. Round up each time.

Instant

$6.99 $4.98 $3.75

Shrieking Affliction

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has one or fewer cards in hand, they lose 3 life.

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.36 $0.15

The Haunt of Hightower

Flying, lifelink
Whenever The Haunt of Hightower attacks, defending player discards a card.
Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, put a +1/+1 counter on The Haunt of Hightower.

Legendary Creature - Vampire

$2.29 $1.81 $1.02

The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Legendary Enchantment

$34.99 $24.43 $25.13

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.

Legendary Creature - Skeleton Rogue

$1.99 $1.31 $0.48

Underworld Dreams

Whenever an opponent draws a card, this enchantment deals 1 damage to that player.

Enchantment

$2.79 $2.26 $1.65

Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery

$1.49 $1.32 $0.65

Village Rites

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

Instant

$2.29 $0.49 $0.28

Withering Boon

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 3 life.
Counter target creature spell.

Instant

$14.99 $11.87 $8.85

Sideboard

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $974.66

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Avg Mana Value: 2.80Total Mana Value: 179.00

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Avg Mana Value: 2.80Total Mana Value: 179.00

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