Braids • (Mono-Black Commander deck) • Archidekt

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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

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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

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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

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Kokusho, the Evening Star

Flying
When Kokusho dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Legendary Creature - Dragon Spirit

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Drain

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Draw

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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

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Ichor Wellspring

When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

Artifact

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Library of Leng

You have no maximum hand size.
If an effect causes you to discard a card, discard it, but you may put it on top of your library instead of into your graveyard.

Artifact

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Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment

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Vilis, Broker of Blood

Flying

, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Legendary Creature - Demon

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Draw

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Finisher

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Exsanguinate

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

Sorcery

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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

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Ugin's Nexus

If a player would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead.
If Ugin's Nexus would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield, instead exile it and take an extra turn after this one.

Legendary Artifact

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Finisher

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Land

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Bojuka Bog

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

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Land

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Cabal Stronghold

: Add

for each basic Swamp you control.

Land

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Drownyard Temple

: Add

: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Land

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Eumidian Hatchery

, Pay 1 life: Add

. Put a hatchling counter on this land.
When this land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, for each hatchling counter on it, create a 1/1 black Insect creature token with flying.

Land

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Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped.

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, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land

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Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

: Add

: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Legendary Land

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Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

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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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Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Legendary Creature - Praetor Phyrexian

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Lifegain

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Protection

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Darkness

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant

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Imp's Mischief

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

Instant

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Kaya's Ghostform

Enchant creature or planeswalker you control
When enchanted permanent dies or is put into exile, return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Enchantment - Aura

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Undying Malice

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Instant

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Protection

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

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Bubbling Muck

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

Sorcery

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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

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Culling the Weak

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add

Instant

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Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

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Gauntlet of Power

As this artifact enters, choose a color.
Creatures of the chosen color get +1/+1.
Whenever a basic land is tapped for mana of the chosen color, its controller adds an additional one mana of that color.

Artifact

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Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

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Prized Statue

When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Artifact

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Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

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Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

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Ramp

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Recursion

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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

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Bloodghast

This creature can't block.
This creature has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature - Vampire Spirit

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Dance of the 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." Put enchanted creature card onto the battlefield tapped 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/+1 and doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, that player may pay

. If the player does, untap that creature.

Enchantment - Aura

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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

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Necromancy

You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step.
When this enchantment enters, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach this enchantment to it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Enchantment

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Nether Traitor

Haste
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Whenever another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay

. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature - Spirit

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Nine-Lives Familiar

This creature enters with eight revival counters on it if you cast it.
When this creature dies, if it had a revival counter on it, return it to the battlefield with one fewer revival counter on it at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature - Cat

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Phyrexian Reclamation

, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment

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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

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Reassembling Skeleton

: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

Creature - Warrior Skeleton

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Victimize

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

Sorcery

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Recursion

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Removal

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Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery

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Deadly Rollick

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

Instant

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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

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Dismember

(

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)
Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Instant

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Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery

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Flare of Malice

You may sacrifice a nontoken black creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Instant

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Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant

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Make an Example

Each opponent separates the creatures they control into two piles. For each opponent, you choose one of their piles. Each opponent sacrifices the creatures in their chosen pile. (Piles can be empty.)

Sorcery

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Reiver Demon

Flying
When this creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, destroy all nonartifact, nonblack creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Creature - Demon

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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

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Slaughter Pact

Destroy target nonblack creature.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay

. If you don't, you lose the game.

Instant

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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

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Sudden Spoiling

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.)
Until end of turn, creatures target player controls lose all abilities and have base power and toughness 0/2.

Instant

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Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery

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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

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Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant

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Removal

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Stax

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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.

Creature - Rogue Dauthi

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Stax

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Tokens

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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

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Dreadhorde Invasion

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and 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.)
Whenever a Zombie token you control with power 6 or greater attacks, it gains lifelink until end of turn.

Enchantment

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Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no creatures with decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia (soc) 217

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Ophiomancer

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Creature - Human Shaman

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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

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Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery

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Diabolic Intent

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

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Entomb

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

Instant

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Grim Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

Sorcery

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$29.99 $24.70 $21.28

Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant

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Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $972.07

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Avg Mana Value: 2.74Total Mana Value: 178.00

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Avg Mana Value: 2.74Total Mana Value: 178.00

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