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

$6.99 $4.08 $4.02

Commander

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Gideon the Oathless

Ward—Discard a card.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, Gideon deals 1 damage to that player.
Whenever an opponent activates a loyalty ability, Gideon deals 1 damage to that player.

Legendary Creature - Human Mercenary

$0.49 $0.34 $0.15

Burn

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Chitin Gravestalker

This spell costs

less to cast for each artifact and/or creature card in your graveyard.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature - Warrior Insect

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Cycling

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Burglar Rat

When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature - Rat

$0.39 $0.29 $0.15

Hopeless Nightmare

When this enchantment enters, each opponent discards a card and loses 2 life.
When this enchantment is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, scry 2.

: Sacrifice this enchantment.

Enchantment

$0.79 $0.35 $0.15

Rank Rat

When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature - Rat Zombie

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Discard

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Bastion of Remembrance

When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$0.79 $0.31 $0.25

Blood Artist

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

Creature - Vampire

$4.99 $3.43 $2.98

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

$0.79 $0.38 $0.15

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

Gray Merchant of Asphodel (plst) C14-146

$1.49 $0.98 $0.63

Syr Konrad, the Grim

Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent.

: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Legendary Creature - Human Knight

$1.79 $1.04 $1.04

Vengeful Bloodwitch

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

Creature - Vampire Warlock

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Vraan, Executioner Thane

Whenever one or more other creatures you control die, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Legendary Creature - Vampire Phyrexian

$0.99 $0.84 $0.97

Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature - Human Rogue Ally

$2.79 $3.38 $1.19

Drain

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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

$5.99 $4.72 $4.11

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 $0.50 $0.30

Ichor Wellspring

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.29 $0.20

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery

$0.59 $0.47 $0.50

Skullclamp

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

Artifact - Equipment

$7.99 $6.03 $4.74

Draw

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Rogue's Passage

: Add

: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Land

$1.29 $0.46 $0.40

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Witch's Cottage

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land - Swamp

$0.69 $0.34 $0.34

Land

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Exquisite Blood

Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.

Enchantment

$47.99 $42.28 $35.94

Give In to Violence

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

Instant

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

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 $2.17 $0.73

Lifegain

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Alesha's Legacy

Target creature you control gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Supernatural Stamina

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."

Instant

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

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

$0.79 $0.42 $0.31

Protection

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.46 $0.46

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

$4.49 $2.79 $2.57

Greedy Freebooter

When this creature dies, scry 1 and create a Treasure token. (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom. A Treasure token is an artifact with "

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

Creature - Human Pirate

$1.99 $0.63 $0.15

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

(

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each

in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana.
Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.

Legendary Creature - Horror Minion Phyrexian

$2.29 $1.26 $0.77

Mind Stone

: Add

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.37 $0.26

Mycosynth Wellspring

When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact

$0.39 $0.36 $0.26

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

$1.79 $0.66 $0.36

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $1.77 $1.59

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

$3.99 $2.92 $2.53

Wayfarer's Bauble

, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.44 $0.30

Ramp

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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

$2.29 $1.62 $1.04

Chthonian Nightmare

When this enchantment enters, you get

(three energy counters).
Pay X

, Sacrifice a creature, Return this enchantment to its owner's hand: Return target creature card with mana value X from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment

$1.99 $0.83 $0.37

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

$0.59 $0.53 $0.45

Gisa, Glorious Resurrector

If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.
At the beginning of your upkeep, put all creature cards exiled with Gisa onto the battlefield under your control. They gain decayed. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$4.99 $2.94 $2.55

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

$1.49 $0.77 $0.56

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

$2.79 $1.56 $0.92

Omen of the Dead

Flash
When this enchantment enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

, Sacrifice this enchantment: Scry 2.

Enchantment

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Stitch Together

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Threshold — Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.

Sorcery

$1.29 $0.36 $0.23

Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.53 $0.46

Recursion

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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

$3.99 $3.08 $1.86

Defile

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

Instant

$2.29 $1.29 $1.17

Executioner's Capsule

, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy target nonblack creature.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.11 $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 $0.36 $0.15

Grim Bauble

When this artifact enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

, Sacrifice this artifact: Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Artifact

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Killing Wave

For each creature, its controller sacrifices it unless they pay X life.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.40 $0.36

Lich's Relic

When this Equipment enters, you may pay

. When you do, for each opponent, destroy up to one target creature or planeswalker that player controls.
Equipped creature gets +2/+1.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$1.99 $1.68 $0.82

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

$3.99 $1.35 $1.23

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

$7.49 $5.14 $5.09

Shredder's Technique

Sneak

(You may cast this spell for

if you also return an unblocked attacker you control to hand during the declare blockers step.)
Destroy target creature or enchantment. If an enchantment was destroyed this way, you lose 2 life.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Shriekmaw

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.
Evoke

(You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature - Elemental

$0.49 $0.29 $0.18

Toxic Deluge

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

Sorcery

$8.49 $5.63 $5.10

Removal

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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

$0.49 $0.24 $0.15

Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder

Whenever you cast a creature spell, create X 1/1 black Thrull creature tokens, where X is that spell's mana value.
When you control seven or more Thrulls, sacrifice Endrek Sahr.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder (plst) TSP-106

$2.49 $4.08 $2.60

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 (mid) 108

$3.49 $2.43 $1.13

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

$2.49 $1.25 $0.93

Servo Schematic

When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.

Artifact

$0.59 $0.34 $0.23

Tokens

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Case of the Stashed Skeleton

When this Case enters, create a 2/1 black Skeleton creature token and suspect it. (It has menace and can't block.)
To solve — You control no suspected Skeletons. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.)
Solved —

, Sacrifice this Case: Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment - Case

$0.69 $0.35 $0.15

Lively Dirge

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+

— Search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle.
+

— Return up to two creature cards with total mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery

$7.99 $5.23 $4.86

Tutor

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $193.14

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Avg Mana Value: 2.60Total Mana Value: 164.00

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Avg Mana Value: 2.60Total Mana Value: 164.00

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