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Braids Control Commander
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $647.78
Salt Sum: 50.43
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $5.99
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 that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Creature
Braids, Arisen Nightmare (dmu) 288
1

Artifact

Quantity: 8Price: $92.22
Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (clb) 298
1
Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells 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. {T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (pwar) 79
1
Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Bontu's Monument (dmc) 179
1
Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Jet Medallion (c14) 243
1
Mindcrank

Whenever an opponent loses life, that player mills that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Artifact
Mindcrank (clb) 866
1
Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Draw a card, then put Sensei's Divining Top on top of its owner's library.

Artifact
Sensei's Divining Top (2x2) 314
1
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (cc2) 7
1
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (plg22) 2
1

Creature

Quantity: 21Price: $117.81
Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara, First of Locthwain or another black creature enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Creature
Ayara, First of Locthwain (eld) 75
1
Blood Artist

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

Creature
Blood Artist (2x2) 70
1
Bloodghast

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

Creature
Bloodghast (zen) 83
1
Crypt Ghast

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.) Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.

Creature
Crypt Ghast (c14) 139
1
Fleshbag Marauder

When Fleshbag Marauder enters the battlefield, each player sacrifices a creature.

Creature
Fleshbag Marauder (scd) 78
1
Gixian Puppeteer

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. When Gixian Puppeteer dies, return another target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Gixian Puppeteer (bro) 99
1
Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters the battlefield, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (thb) 99
1
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.)

Creature
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia (mid) 108
1
Junji, the Midnight Sky

Flying, menace When Junji, the Midnight Sky 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.

Creature
Junji, the Midnight Sky (neo) 102
1
Kokusho, the Evening Star

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

Creature
Kokusho, the Evening Star (chk) 122
1
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 {B}. If you do, return Nether Traitor from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Nether Traitor (tsr) 127
1
Ophiomancer

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

Creature
Ophiomancer (cc2) 3
1
Pawn of Ulamog

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

Creature
Pawn of Ulamog (c17) 120
1
Pitiless Plunderer

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Pitiless Plunderer (plst) RIX-81
1
Plaguecrafter

When Plaguecrafter enters the battlefield, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. Each player who can't discards a card.

Creature
Plaguecrafter (grn) 82
1
Sedgemoor Witch

Menace Ward—Pay 3 life. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 3 life.) Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."

Creature
Sedgemoor Witch (stx) 86
1
Sifter of Skulls

Devoid (This card has no color.) Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}." ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Creature
Sifter of Skulls (ogw) 77
1
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, the Grim deals 1 damage to each opponent. {1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

Creature
Syr Konrad, the Grim (eld) 107
1
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life. {3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Creature
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose (j22) 487
1
Woe Strider

When Woe Strider enters the battlefield, create a 0/1 white Goat creature token. Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1. Escape—{3}{B}{B}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.) Woe Strider escapes with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Woe Strider (thb) 123
1
Zulaport Cutthroat

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

Creature
Zulaport Cutthroat (clb) 775
1

Enchantment

Quantity: 10Price: $129.20
Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When Animate Dead enters the battlefield, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Animate Dead." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach Animate Dead to it. When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment
Animate Dead (plst) EMA-78
1
Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your precombat main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

Enchantment
Black Market Connections (clb) 669
1
Bloodchief Ascension

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent lost 2 or more life this turn, you may put a quest counter on Bloodchief Ascension. (Damage causes loss of life.) Whenever a card is put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, if Bloodchief Ascension has three or more quest counters on it, you may have that player lose 2 life. If you do, you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Bloodchief Ascension (plst) ZEN-82
1
Contamination

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Contamination unless you sacrifice a creature. If a land is tapped for mana, it produces {B} instead of any other type and amount.

Enchantment
Contamination (plst) USG-123
1
Dictate of Erebos

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

Enchantment
Dictate of Erebos (plst) JOU-65
1
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
Dreadhorde Invasion (mic) 114
1
Exquisite Blood

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

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (plst) JMP-231
1
Grave Pact

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

Enchantment
Grave Pact (cm2) 65
1
No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Enchantment
No Mercy (dmr) 95
1
Sanguine Bond

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

Enchantment
Sanguine Bond (c21) 153
1

Instant

Quantity: 14Price: $98.02
Culling the Weak

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

Instant
Culling the Weak (exo) 55
1
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 "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Deadly Dispute (clb) 124
1
Defile

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

Instant
Defile (mh1) 86
1
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 the battlefield this turn.

Instant
Force of Despair (mh1) 92
1
Imp's Mischief

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

Instant
Imp's Mischief (plc) 72
1
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (mid) 107
1
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
1
Pharika's Libation

Choose one — • Target opponent sacrifices a creature. • Target opponent sacrifices an enchantment.

Instant
Pharika's Libation (thb) 111
1
Sheoldred's Edict

Choose one — • Each opponent sacrifices a nontoken creature. • Each opponent sacrifices a creature token. • Each opponent sacrifices a planeswalker.

Instant
Sheoldred's Edict (one) 108
1
Soul Shatter

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the highest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Instant
Soul Shatter (scd) 108
1
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
Tragic Slip (ema) 109
1
Vampiric Tutor

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

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 314
1
Village Rites

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

Instant
Village Rites (j22) 486
1
Vona's Hunger

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) Each opponent sacrifices a creature. If you have the city's blessing, instead each opponent sacrifices half the creatures they control, rounded up.

Instant
Vona's Hunger (rix) 90
1

Land

Quantity: 30Price: $97.28
Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped. When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (c14) 285
1
Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
1
Castle Locthwain

Castle Locthwain enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Land
Castle Locthwain (clb) 884
1
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (j22) 813
1
Mortuary Mire

Mortuary Mire enters the battlefield tapped. When Mortuary Mire enters the battlefield, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Mortuary Mire (j22) 817
1
Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (c21) 304
1
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (jmp) 493
1
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (c21) 311
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mom) 279
19
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}. Channel — {3}{B}, Discard Takenuma, Abandoned Mire: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire (neo) 278
1
Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice Terramorphic Expanse: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (one) 261
1
Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.) Witch's Cottage enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps. When Witch's Cottage enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249
1

Sorcery

Quantity: 16Price: $107.26
Buried Alive

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

Sorcery
Buried Alive (uma) 88
1
Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Damnation (2x2) 73
1
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
Diabolic Intent (bro) 89
1
Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (scd) 77
1
Innocent Blood

Each player sacrifices a creature.

Sorcery
Innocent Blood (jmp) 244
1
Invoke Despair

Target opponent sacrifices a creature. If they can't, they lose 2 life and you draw a card. Then repeat this process for an enchantment and a planeswalker.

Sorcery
Invoke Despair (neo) 101
1
Mutilate

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Sorcery
Mutilate (ddd) 55
1
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (dmc) 115
1
Profane Tutor

Suspend 2—{1}{B} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {1}{B} and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.) Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Profane Tutor (mh2) 97
1
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (cc2) 5
1
Smallpox

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

Sorcery
Smallpox (tsr) 139
1
Torment of Hailfire

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

Sorcery
Torment of Hailfire (plst) HOU-77
1
Toxic Deluge

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

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (2xm) 110
1
Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Unearth (2x2) 96
1
Unmarked Grave

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

Sorcery
Unmarked Grave (mh2) 106
1
Victimize

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

Sorcery
Victimize (ema) 113
1

Maybeboard

Quantity: 4Price: $22.26
Decanter of Endless Water

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Decanter of Endless Water (clb) 309
1
Infernal Darkness

Cumulative upkeep—Pay {B} and 1 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) If a land is tapped for mana, it produces {B} instead of any other type.

Enchantment
Infernal Darkness (ice) 135
1
Necromancy

You may cast Necromancy 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 Necromancy enters the battlefield, 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 Necromancy to it. When Necromancy leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Enchantment
Necromancy (plst) VIS-64
1
Stitch Together

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

Sorcery
Stitch Together (plst) JUD-72
1

Need

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Castle Locthwain

Castle Locthwain enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Land
Castle Locthwain (clb) 884
1
Defile

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

Instant
Defile (mh1) 86
1
Mutilate

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Sorcery
Mutilate (ddd) 55
1
Pawn of Ulamog

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

Creature
Pawn of Ulamog (c17) 120
1
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (jmp) 493
1
Pitiless Plunderer

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Pitiless Plunderer (plst) RIX-81
1
Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Draw a card, then put Sensei's Divining Top on top of its owner's library.

Artifact
Sensei's Divining Top (2x2) 314
1
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

{T}: Add {B}. Channel — {3}{B}, Discard Takenuma, Abandoned Mire: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire (neo) 278
1
Woe Strider

When Woe Strider enters the battlefield, create a 0/1 white Goat creature token. Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1. Escape—{3}{B}{B}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.) Woe Strider escapes with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Woe Strider (thb) 123
1

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