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Erebos | Starter Deck
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $154.06
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Erebos, God of the Dead

Indestructible As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.) Your opponents can't gain life. {1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Creature Enchantment
Erebos, God of the Dead (ths) 85

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Drain/Gain

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Creeping Bloodsucker

At the beginning of your upkeep, Creeping Bloodsucker deals 1 damage to each opponent. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Creature
Creeping Bloodsucker (j22) 21
Faith of the Devoted

Whenever you cycle or discard a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Faith of the Devoted (c19) 112
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
God-Pharaoh's Statue

Spells your opponents cast cost {2} more to cast. At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses 1 life.

Artifact
God-Pharaoh's Statue (war) 238
Grave Endeavor

Roll two d10 and choose one result. Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to that result. Then each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the other result.

Instant
Grave Endeavor (afc) 24
Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters, 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 (ths) 89
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
Massacre Wurm (moc) 256
Megrim

Whenever an opponent discards a card, Megrim deals 2 damage to that player.

Enchantment
Megrim (m10) 104
Psychosis Crawler

Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand. Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature Artifact
Psychosis Crawler (cn2) 215
Raiders' Wake

Whenever an opponent discards a card, that player loses 2 life. Raid — At the beginning of your end step, if you attacked this turn, target opponent discards a card.

Enchantment
Raiders' Wake (xln) 116
Retreat to Hagra

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one — • Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn. • Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Retreat to Hagra (c18) 116
Sanctum of Stone Fangs

At the beginning of your first main phase, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of Shrines you control.

Enchantment
Sanctum of Stone Fangs (m21) 120
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
Sangromancer (mbs) 53
Tymaret, Chosen from Death

Tymaret's toughness is equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.) {1}{B}: Exile up to two target cards from graveyards. You gain 1 life for each creature card exiled this way.

Creature Enchantment
Tymaret, Chosen from Death (thb) 119
Underworld Dreams

Whenever an opponent draws a card, Underworld Dreams deals 1 damage to that player.

Enchantment
Underworld Dreams (thb) 121

Drain/Gain

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Card Draw

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Bag of Holding

Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. {2}, {T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice Bag of Holding: Return all cards exiled with Bag of Holding to their owner's hand.

Artifact
Bag of Holding (j22) 756
Dread Presence

Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one — • You draw a card and you lose 1 life. • Dread Presence deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Dread Presence (m20) 96
Geth's Grimoire

Whenever an opponent discards a card, you may draw a card.

Artifact
Geth's Grimoire (dst) 123
Harvester of Souls

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature
Harvester of Souls (cn2) 138
Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Read the Bones (plst) DDP-56
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (scd) 107

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Land

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Bojuka Bog

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

Land
Bojuka Bog (plst) C18-238
Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters 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 (c19) 261
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (thb) 283
Tectonic Edge

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Tectonic Edge: Destroy target nonbasic land. Activate only if an opponent controls four or more lands.

Land
Tectonic Edge (plst) C14-313

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Deathtouch

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Embodiment of Agonies

Flying, deathtouch Embodiment of Agonies enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each different mana cost among nonland cards in your graveyard. (For example, {2}{B} and {1}{B}{B} are different mana costs.)

Creature
Embodiment of Agonies (m20) 98
Gifted Aetherborn

Deathtouch, lifelink

Creature
Gifted Aetherborn (plst) AER-61
Henrika Domnathi

Creature
Henrika Domnathi // Henrika, Infernal Seer (vow) 119Henrika Domnathi // Henrika, Infernal Seer (vow) 119
Night Incarnate

Deathtouch When Night Incarnate leaves the battlefield, all creatures get -3/-3 until end of turn. Evoke {3}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)

Creature
Night Incarnate (c18) 17
Nighthawk Scavenger

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink Nighthawk Scavenger's power is equal to 1 plus the number of card types among cards in your opponents' graveyards.

Creature
Nighthawk Scavenger (znr) 115
Thorn of the Black Rose

Deathtouch When Thorn of the Black Rose enters, you become the monarch.

Creature
Thorn of the Black Rose (plst) CN2-48
Vampire Nighthawk

Flying Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Creature
Vampire Nighthawk (c20) 140

Deathtouch

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (eld) 331
Caged Sun

As Caged Sun enters, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1. Whenever a land's ability causes you to add one or more mana of the chosen color, add one additional mana of that color.

Artifact
Caged Sun (brr) 9
Charcoal Diamond

Charcoal Diamond enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}.

Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (clb) 305
Everflowing Chalice

Multikicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} any number of times as you cast this spell.) Everflowing Chalice enters with a charge counter on it for each time it was kicked. {T}: Add {C} for each charge counter on Everflowing Chalice.

Artifact
Everflowing Chalice (clb) 859
Fellwar Stone

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (moc) 356
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (moc) 364
Nyx Lotus

Nyx Lotus enters tapped. {T}: 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.)

Artifact
Nyx Lotus (thb) 235
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (c19) 221
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (plst) CM2-224
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (5dn) 165

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Discard

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Bottomless Pit

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card at random.

Enchantment
Bottomless Pit (sth) 51
Caligo Skin-Witch

Kicker {3}{B} (You may pay an additional {3}{B} as you cast this spell.) When Caligo Skin-Witch enters, if it was kicked, each opponent discards two cards.

Creature
Caligo Skin-Witch (plst) DOM-80
Court of Ambition

When Court of Ambition enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 3 life unless they discard a card. If you're the monarch, instead each opponent loses 6 life unless they discard two cards.

Enchantment
Court of Ambition (cmr) 114
Cunning Lethemancer

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player discards a card.

Creature
Cunning Lethemancer (ala) 69
Dark Deal

Each player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards minus one.

Sorcery
Dark Deal (frf) 66
Herald of Anguish

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.) Flying At the beginning of your end step, each opponent discards a card. {1}{B}, Sacrifice an artifact: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Creature
Herald of Anguish (brc) 108
Honden of Night's Reach

At the beginning of your upkeep, target opponent discards a card for each Shrine you control.

Enchantment
Honden of Night's Reach (ema) 91
Hypnotic Specter

Flying Whenever Hypnotic Specter deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card at random.

Creature
Hypnotic Specter (plst) M10-100
Painful Quandary

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

Enchantment
Painful Quandary (bro) 111
Plague Reaver

At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice each other creature you control. Discard two cards, Sacrifice Plague Reaver: Choose target opponent. Return Plague Reaver to the battlefield under that player's control at the beginning of their next upkeep.

Creature
Plague Reaver (cmr) 143
Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Sorcery
Syphon Mind (c14) 165
Tasigur's Cruelty

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Each opponent discards two cards.

Sorcery
Tasigur's Cruelty (frf) 88
Thoughtrender Lamia

Constellation — Whenever Thoughtrender Lamia or another enchantment you control enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature Enchantment
Thoughtrender Lamia (jou) 85
Words of Waste

{1}: The next time you would draw a card this turn, each opponent discards a card instead.

Enchantment
Words of Waste (ons) 182

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Removal

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Drag to the Underworld

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.) Destroy target creature.

Instant
Drag to the Underworld (thb) 89
Go-Shintai of Hidden Cruelty

Deathtouch At the beginning of your end step, you may pay {1}. When you do, destroy target creature with toughness X or less, where X is the number of Shrines you control.

Creature Enchantment
Go-Shintai of Hidden Cruelty (neo) 97
Massacre Girl

Menace When Massacre Girl enters, each other creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever a creature dies this turn, each creature other than Massacre Girl gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Massacre Girl (war) 99
Pestilence

At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice Pestilence. {B}: Pestilence deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.

Enchantment
Pestilence (usg) 147
Plaguecrafter

When Plaguecrafter enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.

Creature
Plaguecrafter (plst) GRN-82
Scour from Existence

Exile target permanent.

Instant
Scour from Existence (bfz) 13
Soul-Guide Lantern

When this artifact enters, exile target card from a graveyard. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile each opponent's graveyard. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Soul-Guide Lantern (thb) 237
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
Sudden Spoiling (c14) 164
Tormod's Crypt

{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Exile target player's graveyard.

Artifact
Tormod's Crypt (m13) 219

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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 (zen) 82
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 (gtc) 61
Exquisite Blood

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

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (avr) 102
Gibbering Descent

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 1 life and discards a card. Hellbent — Skip your upkeep step if you have no cards in hand. Madness {2}{B}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Enchantment
Gibbering Descent (fut) 66
Glacial Chasm

Cumulative upkeep—Pay 2 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.) When Glacial Chasm enters, sacrifice a land. Creatures you control can't attack. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.

Land
Glacial Chasm (ice) 353
Jet Medallion

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

Artifact
Jet Medallion (c14) 243
Lethal Vapors

Whenever a creature enters, destroy it. {0}: Destroy Lethal Vapors. You skip your next turn. Any player may activate this ability.

Enchantment
Lethal Vapors (scg) 68
Liliana of the Dark Realms

+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. −3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control. −6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '{T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.'"

Planeswalker
Liliana of the Dark Realms (m14) 102
Mindslicer

When Mindslicer dies, each player discards their hand.

Creature
Mindslicer (ody) 149
Myojin of Night's Reach

Myojin of Night's Reach enters with a divinity counter on it if you cast it from your hand. Myojin of Night's Reach has indestructible as long as it has a divinity counter on it. Remove a divinity counter from Myojin of Night's Reach: Each opponent discards their hand.

Creature
Myojin of Night's Reach (chk) 126
Necrogen Mists

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card.

Enchantment
Necrogen Mists (mrd) 69
Nirkana Revenant

Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}. {B}: Nirkana Revenant gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature
Nirkana Revenant (roe) 120
No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Enchantment
No Mercy (ulg) 56
Oppression

Whenever a player casts a spell, that player discards a card.

Enchantment
Oppression (7ed) 152
Scythe Specter

Flying Whenever Scythe Specter deals combat damage to a player, each opponent discards a card. Each player who discarded a card with the highest mana value among cards discarded this way loses life equal to that mana value.

Creature
Scythe Specter (scd) 105
Tainted Aether

Whenever a creature enters, its controller sacrifices a creature or land of their choice.

Enchantment
Tainted Aether (usg) 161
Tinybones, Trinket Thief

At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent discarded a card this turn, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. {4}{B}{B}: Each opponent with no cards in hand loses 10 life.

Creature
Tinybones, Trinket Thief (jmp) 17
Vilis, Broker of Blood

Flying {B}, 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.)

Creature
Vilis, Broker of Blood (m20) 122
Ward of Bones

Each opponent who controls more creatures than you can't cast creature spells. The same is true for artifacts and enchantments. Each opponent who controls more lands than you can't play lands.

Artifact
Ward of Bones (eve) 174
Waste Not

Whenever an opponent discards a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Whenever an opponent discards a land card, add {B}{B}. Whenever an opponent discards a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Enchantment
Waste Not (m15) 122

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{"ops":[{"insert":"We've been working on making starter decks on the Legendary Creature - Podcast of our most tested personal decks. Erebos is one of my oldest commanders and I think this starter list captures the essence of what my deck is about in a more affordable version\n\nAs always with my starter deck lists, the maybeboard includes a variety of non-budget upgrades that mirror cards in my currently used version of the deck.\n\nIf you can't tell, the intent of the deck is to try to create a card imbalance as the game wears on. If I've had a successful game, my opponents should have no cards in hand, I will have likely gotten under 10 life at some point using Erebos' draw ability. I would then have been able to use some of the Drain/Gain category cards to claw my way back to a higher life total, while cards from that same category likely trickle my opponents down to 0.\n"}]}

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