Recursion Ahead • (Mono-Black Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $0.00

Avacyn, Angel of Horror

Flying, deathtouch
Whenever Avacyn or another nontoken creature you control dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.

Legendary Creature - Angel

$---- $---- $20.82

Commander

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Discard

Qty: 1 Price: $0.35

Cabal Initiate

Discard a card: This creature gains lifelink until end of turn.
Threshold — This creature gets +1/+2 as long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

Creature - Human Warlock

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Discard

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Drain

Qty: 3 Price: $6.78

Blood Artist

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

Creature - Vampire

$3.99 $3.80 $2.28

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

$2.79 $4.38 $1.00

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

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

Drain

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Draw

Qty: 10 Price: $37.21

Archon of Cruelty

Flying
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, target opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice, discards a card, and loses 3 life. You draw a card and gain 3 life.

Creature - Archon

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

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

$10.99 $9.10 $8.07

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

$6.49 $4.88 $4.57

Corrupted Conviction

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

Instant

$0.79 $0.38 $0.15

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

$1.29 $0.33 $0.15

Gwenom, Remorseless

Deathtouch, lifelink
Whenever Gwenom attacks, until end of turn, you may look at the top card of your library any time and you may play cards 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.

Legendary Creature - Spider Hero Symbiote

$6.49 $4.88 $3.39

Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature - Human Rogue

$0.39 $0.30 $0.15

Priest of Forgotten Gods

, Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature of their choice. You add

and draw a card. (Activate only as an instant.)

Creature - Human Cleric

$1.29 $0.61 $0.15

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$8.49 $5.01 $4.76

Village Rites

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

Instant

$0.99 $0.88 $0.18

Draw

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Land

Qty: 36 (38 w/ MDFC)Price: $195.64

Cabal Coffers

: Add

for each Swamp you control.

Land

$39.99 $31.36 $23.71

Command Beacon

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Land

$14.99 $9.10 $8.32

Crypt of Agadeem

This land enters tapped.

: Add

for each black creature card in your graveyard.

Land

$5.99 $4.05 $3.00

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

$74.99 $56.45 $58.82

Phyrexian Tower

: Add

, Sacrifice a creature: Add

Legendary Land

$39.99 $28.53 $28.08

Swamp

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: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.19 $0.15

Westvale Abbey

: Add

, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 white and black Human Cleric creature token.

, Sacrifice five creatures: Transform this land, then untap it.

Land

Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince (inr) 287

$4.99 $3.41 $2.26

Land

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Protection

Qty: 2 Price: $30.98

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 $9.26 $8.59

Malakir Rebirth

Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Instant

Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111

$19.99 $12.68 $11.98

Protection

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Ramp

Qty: 17 Price: $195.35

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$---- $---- $1.03

Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment.
At the beginning of your first main phase, add

for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Enchantment

$6.99 $4.95 $4.99

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

$6.49 $3.76 $3.38

Cabal Ritual

Add

.
Threshold — Add

instead if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

Instant

$20.99 $15.82 $12.61

Charcoal Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add

Artifact

$1.29 $0.34 $0.26

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

$20.99 $14.98 $14.05

Culling the Weak

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

Instant

$12.99 $7.17 $5.73

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$11.99 $6.71 $5.92

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$19.99 $12.70 $10.40

Pawn of Ulamog

Whenever this creature or another nontoken creature you control dies, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add

Creature - Vampire Shaman

$0.99 $0.54 $0.18

Pitiless Plunderer

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

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

Creature - Human Pirate

$5.99 $4.04 $3.63

Sceptre of Eternal Glory

: Add one mana of any color.

: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.

Legendary Artifact

$39.99 $20.39 $18.73

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$---- $---- $2.08

Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact - Golem

$0.69 $0.29 $0.19

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.

Legendary Artifact

$6.49 $5.01 $4.02

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

$4.49 $2.27 $2.49

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 $31.80 $25.67

Ramp

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Recursion

Qty: 7 Price: $36.39

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 $7.45 $5.02

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

$2.29 $0.92 $0.43

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

$0.35 $0.66 $0.45

Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Sorcery

$7.99 $5.96 $5.21

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

$2.29 $1.98 $1.22

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 $7.52 $6.25

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

Recursion

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Removal

Qty: 15 Price: $150.85

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 $4.95 $3.89

Come Back Wrong

Destroy target creature. If a creature card is put into a graveyard this way, return it to the battlefield under your control. Sacrifice it at the beginning of your next end step.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.40 $0.20

Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery

$22.99 $20.60 $18.93

Defile

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

Instant

$2.79 $2.03 $1.83

Dictate of Erebos

Flash
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Enchantment

$20.99 $20.83 $15.61

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

Fell the Profane

Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant

$7.49 $5.11 $4.37

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

$4.99 $3.95 $2.80

Fleshbag Marauder

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

Creature - Warrior Zombie

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Grave Pact

Whenever a creature you control dies, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Enchantment

$39.99 $33.16 $30.83

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 $0.38 $0.22

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

$32.99 $25.20 $25.19

Toxic Deluge

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

Sorcery

$5.99 $4.52 $4.68

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

$0.59 $0.31 $0.15

Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant

$2.29 $1.42 $1.46

Removal

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Sac Outlet

Qty: 1 Price: $0.69

Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Haste
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Yahenni.
Sacrifice another creature: Yahenni gains indestructible until end of turn.

Legendary Creature - Vampire Aetherborn

$0.69 $0.67 $0.15

Sac Outlet

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Stax

Qty: 1 Price: $5.99

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

$5.99 $5.85 $4.25

Stax

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Tokens

Qty: 5 Price: $48.91

Archfiend's Vessel

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
When this creature enters, if it entered from your graveyard or you cast it from your graveyard, exile it. If you do, create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying.

Creature - Human Cleric

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

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

$34.99 $31.73 $31.96

Drivnod, Carnage Dominus

If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

, Exile three creature cards from your graveyard: Put an indestructible counter on Drivnod. (

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)

Legendary Creature - Horror Phyrexian

$8.99 $7.28 $6.71

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

$2.79 $1.24 $0.76

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

$1.79 $1.46 $0.65

Tokens

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Tutor

Qty: 1 Price: $20.99

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

$20.99 $17.36 $14.78

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $730.13

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Avg Mana Value: 2.98Total Mana Value: 191.00

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Avg Mana Value: 2.98Total Mana Value: 191.00

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