Monarch • (Mono-Black Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $4.49

Starscream, Power Hungry

More Than Meets the Eye

(You may cast this card converted for

.)
Flying
Whenever you draw a card, if you're the monarch, target opponent loses 2 life.
Whenever one or more creatures deal combat damage to you, convert Starscream.

Legendary Creature Artifact - Robot

Starscream, Power Hungry // Starscream, Seeker Leader (bot) 5

$4.49 $4.28 $2.80

Commander

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Artifact

Qty: 14 Price: $52.26

Arcane Signet

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

Artifact

$0.99 $0.87 $0.52

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.

, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Legendary Artifact

$12.99 $15.81 $11.84

Caged Sun

As this artifact 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 an additional one mana of that color.

Artifact

$4.99 $4.99 $3.33

Charcoal Diamond

This artifact enters tapped.

: Add

Artifact

$0.99 $0.35 $0.23

Conjurer's Bauble

, Sacrifice this artifact: Put up to one target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Draw a card.

Artifact

$0.59 $0.63 $0.34

Coveted Jewel

When this artifact enters, draw three cards.

: Add three mana of any one color.
Whenever one or more creatures an opponent controls attack you and aren't blocked, that player draws three cards and gains control of this artifact. Untap it.

Artifact

$0.59 $0.34 $0.15

Crown of Gondor

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each creature you control.
When a legendary creature you control enters, if there is no monarch, you become the monarch.
Equip

. This ability costs

less to activate if you're the monarch.

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$0.59 $0.42 $0.15

Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact

$1.99 $1.41 $0.85

Hedron Archive

: Add

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.32 $0.18

Ivory Tower

At the beginning of your upkeep, you gain X life, where X is the number of cards in your hand minus 4.

Artifact

$2.49 $3.20 $2.07

Mind Stone

: Add

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.31 $0.20

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.99 $2.60 $1.64

Teferi's Puzzle Box

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player puts the cards in their hand on the bottom of their library in any order, then draws that many cards.

Artifact

$20.99 $17.91 $14.70

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 $0.35 $0.29

Artifact

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Creature

Qty: 21 Price: $50.41

Baleful Force

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

Creature - Elemental

$1.29 $0.61 $0.39

Blitzwing, Cruel Tormentor

More Than Meets the Eye

(You may cast this card converted for

.)
At the beginning of your end step, target opponent loses life equal to the life that player lost this turn. If no life is lost this way, convert Blitzwing.

Legendary Creature Artifact - Robot

Blitzwing, Cruel Tormentor // Blitzwing, Adaptive Assailant (bot) 4

$1.99 $1.92 $1.04

Custodi Lich

When this creature enters, you become the monarch.
Whenever you become the monarch, target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature - Cleric Zombie

$0.69 $2.16 $0.51

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

$6.99 $5.50 $4.14

Dross Golem

Affinity for Swamps (This spell costs

less to cast for each Swamp you control.)
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Creature Artifact - Golem

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Garrulous Sycophant

At the beginning of your end step, if you're the monarch, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature - Human Advisor

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Gingerbrute

Haste (This creature can attack and

as soon as it comes under your control.)

: This creature can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with haste.

, Sacrifice this creature: You gain 3 life.

Creature Artifact - Golem Food

$0.59 $0.33 $0.15

Gixian Puppeteer

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

Creature - Warlock Phyrexian

$1.99 $1.34 $0.93

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

$1.49 $2.29 $0.89

Infernal Sovereign

Flying, trample
Skip your draw step.
Whenever you play a land or cast a spell, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature - Demon

$0.99 $0.43 $0.40

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

$1.79 $1.11 $0.78

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

$6.49 $5.00 $2.95

Noxious Gearhulk

Menace
When this creature enters, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Creature Artifact - Construct

$0.99 $0.86 $0.45

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 $1.70 $0.62

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 - Horror Phyrexian

$2.29 $2.48 $1.82

Seizan, Perverter of Truth

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player loses 2 life and draws two cards.

Legendary Creature - Demon Spirit

$2.29 $1.82 $1.25

Shakedown Heavy

Menace
Whenever this creature attacks, defending player may have you draw a card. If they do, untap this creature and remove it from combat.

Creature - Warrior Ogre

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

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

$0.59 $0.35 $0.19

Starving Revenant

When this creature enters, surveil 2. Then for each card you put on top of your library, you draw a card and you lose 3 life.
Descend 8 — Whenever you draw a card, if there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature - Spirit Horror

$0.49 $0.33 $0.15

Thorn of the Black Rose

Deathtouch
When this creature enters, you become the monarch.

Creature - Human Assassin

$0.49 $0.27 $0.15

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

$15.99 $9.93 $8.23

Creature

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Enchantment

Qty: 4 Price: $16.46

Call of the Ring

At the beginning of your upkeep, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

Enchantment

$7.49 $6.85 $4.78

Hissing Miasma

Whenever a creature attacks you, its controller loses 1 life.

Enchantment

$2.29 $2.52 $0.31

Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment

$5.99 $5.24 $3.58

Revenge of Ravens

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment

$0.69 $0.31 $0.19

Enchantment

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Instant

Qty: 10 Price: $20.06

Aphotic Wisps

Target creature becomes black and gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.99 $1.38 $0.31

Costly Plunder

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

Instant

$0.49 $0.25 $0.20

Dark Ritual

Add

Instant

$5.49 $5.43 $3.77

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

$0.79 $0.37 $0.25

Defile

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

Instant

$2.49 $1.30 $0.55

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

$4.49 $3.17 $1.23

Hagra Mauling

This spell costs

less to cast if an opponent controls no basic lands.
Destroy target creature.

Instant

Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit (plst) ZNR-106

$2.99 $1.75 $1.56

Murder

Destroy target creature.

Instant

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Necrologia

Cast this spell only during your end step.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
Draw X cards.

Instant

$0.99 $0.98 $0.46

Village Rites

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

Instant

$0.99 $0.36 $0.28

Instant

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Land

Qty: 37 (38 w/ MDFC)Price: $38.09

Access Tunnel

: Add

: Target creature with power 3 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Land

$1.29 $2.78 $1.04

Geier Reach Sanitarium

: Add

: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Legendary Land

$3.99 $2.04 $2.08

Mortuary Mire

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

: Add

Land

$0.99 $0.30 $0.25

Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, 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

$0.69 $0.36 $0.23

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$6.49 $4.60 $4.09

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.79 $1.07 $0.52

Temple of the False God

: Add

. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Throne of the High City

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: You become the monarch.

Land

$0.59 $0.44 $0.31

Land

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Planeswalker

Qty: 1 Price: $0.99

Ob Nixilis Reignited

+1: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
−3: Destroy target creature.
−8: Target opponent gets an emblem with "Whenever a player draws a card, you lose 2 life."

Legendary Planeswalker - Nixilis

$0.99 $0.26 $0.15

Planeswalker

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Sorcery

Qty: 12 Price: $12.60

Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and lose 3 life.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.34 $0.15

Damnable Pact

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

Sorcery

$0.99 $1.00 $0.56

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

$0.79 $0.40 $0.22

Feed the Swarm

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

Sorcery

$0.39 $0.37 $0.15

Gruesome Realization

Choose one —
• You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.
• Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Invoke Despair

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

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.38 $0.15

Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and lose 2 life.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.39 $0.27

Painful Lesson

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Peer into the Abyss

Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.

Sorcery

$4.49 $3.62 $3.02

Promise of Power

Choose one —
• You draw five cards and you lose 5 life.
• Create an X/X black Demon creature token with flying, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
Entwine

(Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Sorcery

$1.49 $3.69 $0.63

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

$0.49 $0.35 $0.15

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery

$1.29 $0.39 $0.22

Sorcery

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $195.36

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Avg Mana Value: 3.68Total Mana Value: 232.00

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Avg Mana Value: 3.68Total Mana Value: 232.00

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