Updated 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 $4.55 $4.20

Commander

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Anthem

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Banner of Kinship

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. This artifact enters with a fellowship counter on it for each creature you control of the chosen type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1 for each fellowship counter on this artifact.

Artifact

$11.99 $7.60 $6.84

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

$4.99 $5.43 $3.36

Lord of the Accursed

Other Zombies you control get +1/+1.

: All Zombies gain menace until end of turn.

Creature - Zombie

$0.35 $0.33 $0.15

Anthem

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Counters

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Unbreathing Horde

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each other Zombie you control and each Zombie card in your graveyard.
If this creature would be dealt damage, prevent that damage and remove a +1/+1 counter from it.

Creature - Zombie

$0.69 $0.25 $0.15

Counters

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Drain

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Bloodletter of Aclazotz

Flying
If an opponent would lose life during your turn, they lose twice that much life instead. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Creature - Vampire Demon

$44.99 $36.05 $34.06

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 $4.39 $1.02

Shepherd of Rot

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

Creature - Cleric Zombie

$1.49 $0.42 $0.15

Vengeful Dead

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

Creature - Zombie

$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 5 Price: $11.47

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

$1.29 $0.38 $0.15

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

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Midnight Reaper

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.

Creature - Knight Zombie

$0.49 $0.35 $0.17

Sultai Emissary

When this creature dies, manifest the top card of your library. (Put that card onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Creature - Warrior Zombie

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Undead Augur

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

Creature - Wizard Zombie

$0.35 $0.31 $0.15

Draw

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Enchantment

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Grave Venerations

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your end step, if you're the monarch, return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

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Enchantment

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Finisher

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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

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Finisher

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Instant

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Scarblade's Malice

Target creature you control gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn. When that creature dies this turn, create a 2/2 black and green Elf creature token.

Instant

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Instant

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Land

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Cabal Coffers

: Add

for each Swamp you control.

Land

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Swamp

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: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

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Land

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Lifegain

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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

$2.29 $0.75 $0.72

Lifegain

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Mill

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Mire Triton

Deathtouch
When this creature enters, mill two cards and you gain 2 life. (To mill two cards, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature - Merfolk Zombie

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Returned Centaur

When this creature enters, target player mills four cards.

Creature - Zombie Centaur

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Stitcher's Supplier

When this creature enters or dies, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature - Zombie

$0.79 $0.27 $0.18

Mill

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Pingers

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Loyal Subordinate

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, each opponent loses 3 life.

Creature - Zombie

$0.59 $0.29 $0.15

Pingers

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Protection

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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 $0.47 $0.36

Protection

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Ramp

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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

$22.99 $15.79 $16.67

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 $0.40 $0.17

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $1.46 $1.26

Undead Warchief

Zombie spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Zombie creatures you control get +2/+1.

Creature - Zombie

$14.99 $15.52 $12.10

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 11 Price: $48.57

Cauldron's Gift

Adamant — If at least three black mana was spent to cast this spell, mill four cards.
You may choose a creature card in your graveyard. If you do, return it to the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Disentomb

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.44 $0.28

Dread Return

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.66 $0.33

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 $1.40 $1.01

Gravedigger

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

Creature - Zombie

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Liliana, Death's Majesty

+1: Create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Mill two cards.
−3: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.
−7: Destroy all non-Zombie creatures.

Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana

$0.99 $0.35 $0.20

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 $22.01 $21.02

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

$12.99 $6.46 $7.97

Rise from the Grave

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

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 $1.25 $0.67

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

$1.29 $1.21 $0.22

Recursion

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Removal

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Archfiend of Depravity

Flying
At the beginning of each opponent's end step, that player chooses up to two creatures they control, then sacrifices the rest.

Creature - Demon

$0.99 $0.35 $0.27

Cruel Revival

Destroy target non-Zombie creature. It can't be regenerated. Return up to one target Zombie card from your graveyard to your hand.

Instant

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Dead Reckoning

You may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. If you do, Dead Reckoning deals damage equal to that card's power to target creature.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.37 $0.15

Eaten Alive

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay

.
Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.24 $0.15

Lash of Thorns

Target creature gets +2/+1 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.

Instant

$0.35 $0.06 $0.15

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

$0.49 $0.32 $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 $0.28 $0.15

Overseer of the Damned

Flying
When this creature enters, you may destroy target creature.
Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls dies, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.

Creature - Demon

$0.79 $0.39 $0.26

Profane Command

Choose two —
• Target player loses X life.
• Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
• Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
• Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.24 $0.15

Tendrils of Corruption

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

Instant

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Removal

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Sorcery

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Bloodline Bidding

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.)
Choose a creature type. Return all creature cards of the chosen type from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery

$3.49 $2.41 $1.51

Sorcery

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Tokens

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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

$1.29 $1.17 $0.36

Bitterbloom Bearer

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

Creature - Rogue Faerie

$21.99 $13.79 $12.50

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 $32.22 $32.31

Champion of the Perished

Whenever another Zombie you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature - Zombie

$0.99 $0.90 $0.15

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

$4.99 $5.27 $3.11

Gisa, the Hellraiser

Ward—

, Pay 2 life.
Skeletons and Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have menace.
Whenever you commit a crime, create two tapped 2/2 blue and black Zombie Rogue creature tokens. This ability triggers only once each turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

Legendary Creature - Human Warlock

$10.99 $6.28 $5.73

Grave Titan

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

Creature - Giant

$0.99 $0.31 $0.15

Headless Rider

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

Creature - Zombie

$2.29 $3.75 $1.38

Nested Shambler

When this creature dies, create X tapped 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens, where X is this creature's power.

Creature - Zombie

$0.39 $0.31 $0.15

Open the Graves

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

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.39 $0.17

Vizier of the Scorpion

When this creature enters, 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.)
Zombie tokens you control have deathtouch.

Creature - Wizard Zombie

$0.59 $0.16 $0.15

Wand of Orcus

Whenever equipped creature attacks or blocks, it and Zombies you control gain deathtouch until end of turn.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, create that many 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$19.99 $13.51 $12.55

Tokens

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Tutor

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Buried Alive

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

Sorcery

$3.49 $3.19 $2.01

Liliana Vess

+1: Target player discards a card.
−2: Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top.
−8: Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Legendary Planeswalker - Liliana

$8.49 $8.53 $4.50

The Cruelty of Gix

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 — Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a creature or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card.
II — Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.
III — Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment - Saga

$1.79 $1.66 $0.91

Tutor

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Deck size: 100Est cost: $368.34

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Avg Mana Value: 3.52Total Mana Value: 232.00

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Avg Mana Value: 3.52Total Mana Value: 232.00

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