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Bad to the Bone (UPDATED)
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $678.91
Salt sum: 53.81
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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

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Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal

Creature
Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead (lci) 316Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead (lci) 316
Bandit's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) When Bandit's Talent enters, each opponent discards two cards unless they discard a nonland card. {B}: Level 2 At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has one or fewer cards in hand, they lose 2 life. {3}{B}: Level 3 At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card for each opponent who has one or fewer cards in hand.

Enchantment
Bandit's Talent (blb) 83
Burglar Rat

When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Burglar Rat (rvr) 69
Chain of Smog

Target player discards two cards. That player may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Sorcery
Chain of Smog (plst) ONS-132
Dark Deal

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

Sorcery
Dark Deal (sld) 873
Duress

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Sorcery
Duress (sta) 92
Elderfang Disciple

When Elderfang Disciple enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Elderfang Disciple (khm) 93
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
Funeral Charm

Choose one — • Target player discards a card. • Target creature gets +2/-1 until end of turn. • Target creature gains swampwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

Instant
Funeral Charm (vis) 61
Guul Draz Specter

Flying Guul Draz Specter gets +3/+3 as long as an opponent has no cards in hand. Whenever Guul Draz Specter deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card.

Creature
Guul Draz Specter (cn2) 137
Hopeless Nightmare

When Hopeless Nightmare enters, each opponent discards a card and loses 2 life. When Hopeless Nightmare is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, scry 2. {2}{B}: Sacrifice Hopeless Nightmare.

Enchantment
Hopeless Nightmare (woe) 95
Hypnotic Specter

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

Creature
Hypnotic Specter (plst) M10-100
Inquisition of Kozilek

Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it with mana value 3 or less. That player discards that card.

Sorcery
Inquisition of Kozilek (2x2) 355
Liliana's Specter

Flying When Liliana's Specter enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Liliana's Specter (dci) 52
Mindlash Sliver

All Slivers have "{1}, Sacrifice this permanent: Each player discards a card."

Creature
Mindlash Sliver (tsp) 118
Necrogen Mists

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

Enchantment
Necrogen Mists (mrd) 69
Oppression

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

Enchantment
Oppression (wot) 32
Rankle, Master of Pranks

Flying, haste Whenever Rankle, Master of Pranks deals combat damage to a player, choose any number — • Each player discards a card. • Each player loses 1 life and draws a card. • Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Rankle, Master of Pranks (sld) 1707
Raven's Crime

Target player discards a card. Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

Sorcery
Raven's Crime (mma) 95
Tinybones, Bauble Burglar

Whenever an opponent discards a card, exile it from their graveyard with a stash counter on it. During your turn, you may play cards you don't own with stash counters on them from exile, and mana of any type can be spent to cast those spells. {3}{B}, {T}: Each opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Tinybones, Bauble Burglar (fdn) 324
Vicious Rumors

Vicious Rumors deals 1 damage to each opponent. Each opponent discards a card, then mills a card. You gain 1 life.

Sorcery
Vicious Rumors (grn) 89
Virus Beetle

When Virus Beetle enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature Artifact
Virus Beetle (neo) 128
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 (sld) 1299

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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 (mb2) 39
Geth's Grimoire

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

Artifact
Geth's Grimoire (plst) DST-123
Necrogen Spellbomb

{B}, Sacrifice Necrogen Spellbomb: Target player discards a card. {1}, Sacrifice Necrogen Spellbomb: Draw a card.

Artifact
Necrogen Spellbomb (mrd) 216
Necrologia

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

Instant
Necrologia (7ed) 149
Necropotence

Skip your draw step. Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Enchantment
Necropotence (slc) 1995
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (sld) 207
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
Peer into the Abyss (m21) 117
Professor Onyx

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. +1: You lose 1 life. Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. −3: Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls. −8: Each opponent may discard a card. If they don't, they lose 3 life. Repeat this process six more times.

Planeswalker
Professor Onyx (stx) 276
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 (j25) 479
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (p10) 3
Skeletal Scrying

As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile X cards from your graveyard. You draw X cards and you lose X life.

Instant
Skeletal Scrying (plst) C14-162
Stargaze

Look at twice X cards from the top of your library. Put X cards from among them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard. You lose X life.

Sorcery
Stargaze (blb) 114
Syphon Mind

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

Sorcery
Syphon Mind (scd) 111

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Finisher

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Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (cmm) 638

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Land

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Cabal Coffers

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

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
Cabal Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Add {B} for each basic Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
Geier Reach Sanitarium

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Land
Geier Reach Sanitarium (lcc) 335
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (vow) 272

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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 (sld) 1492★
Bubbling Muck

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional {B}.

Sorcery
Bubbling Muck (plst) UDS-54
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 (rvr) 423
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (5ed) 153
Jet Medallion

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

Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 346
Skirge Familiar

Flying Discard a card: Add {B}.

Creature
Skirge Familiar (usg) 157
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (cmm) 703
Thought Vessel

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

Artifact
Thought Vessel (lcc) 118

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Removal

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Blood Money

Destroy all creatures. For each nontoken creature destroyed this way, you create a tapped Treasure token.

Sorcery
Blood Money (sld) 1789
Consuming Corruption

Consuming Corruption deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Instant
Consuming Corruption (mh3) 84
Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Damnation (p08) 1
Deadly Tempest

Destroy all creatures. Each player loses life equal to the number of creatures they controlled that were destroyed this way.

Sorcery
Deadly Tempest (scd) 75
Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle Decree of Pain, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Decree of Pain (sld) 187
Defile

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

Instant
Defile (sld) 1793
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 (ltc) 200
Final Act

Choose one or more — • Destroy all creatures. • Destroy all planeswalkers. • Destroy all battles. • Exile all graveyards. • Each opponent loses all counters.

Sorcery
Final Act (m3c) 52
Languish

All creatures get -4/-4 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Languish (pori) 105
Liliana's Triumph

Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. If you control a Liliana planeswalker, each opponent also discards a card.

Instant
Liliana's Triumph (pwar) 98
Murder

Destroy target creature.

Instant
Murder (mkm) 300
Mutilate

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

Sorcery
Mutilate (tor) 73
Oubliette

When Oubliette enters, target creature phases out until Oubliette leaves the battlefield. Tap that creature as it phases in this way. (Auras and Equipment phase out with it. While permanents are phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist.)

Enchantment
Oubliette (sld) 1794
Plaguecrafter

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

Creature
Plaguecrafter (sld) 1116

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Tutor

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Dark Petition

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, add {B}{B}{B}.

Sorcery
Dark Petition (ori) 90
Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 696
Diabolic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (kld) 75
Grim Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Grim Tutor (m21) 315
Insidious Dreams

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X cards. Search your library for X cards, then shuffle and put those cards on top in any order.

Instant
Insidious Dreams (tor) 66
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
Vampiric Tutor

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

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 108
Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire

Deathtouch Boast — {1}{B}: Target player searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)

Creature
Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire (khm) 309

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Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Ambition's Cost (plst) C15-113
Doomsday

Search your library and graveyard for five cards and exile the rest. Put the chosen cards on top of your library in any order. You lose half your life, rounded up.

Sorcery
Doomsday (sld) 1115
Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Expedition Map (j22) 765
Go for the Throat

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Instant
Go for the Throat (2x2) 76
Painful Quandary

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

Enchantment
Painful Quandary (fdn) 179
Torment of Hailfire

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

Sorcery
Torment of Hailfire (plst) HOU-77

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