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[EDH] Big Black Control (aka Greed is Good)
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $406.18
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Tergrid, God of Fright

Creature
Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern back (khm) 307Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern back (khm) 307

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Lifegain

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Dread Presence

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

Creature
Dread Presence (j22) 403
Eradicator Valkyrie

Flying, lifelink, hexproof from planeswalkers Boast — {1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)

Creature
Eradicator Valkyrie (khm) 94
Shadowspear

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink. {1}: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. Equip {2}

Artifact
Shadowspear (plst) THB-236
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life. Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Creature
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (dmu) 369
Tendrils of Corruption

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

Instant
Tendrils of Corruption (tsr) 145
Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink. {2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact Enchantment
Whip of Erebos (dsc) 159

Lifegain

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Tutor

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Demonic Counsel

Search your library for a Demon card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Delirium — If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, instead search your library for any card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Counsel (dsk) 92
Rune-Scarred Demon

Flying When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Rune-Scarred Demon (fdn) 184

Tutor

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Burn

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Corrupt

Corrupt deals damage to any target equal to the number of Swamps you control. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Sorcery
Corrupt (bro) 88
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 {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (dsc) 142

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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 (drc) 52
Burnished Hart

{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact
Burnished Hart (dsc) 243
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
Dream Devourer

Each nonland card in your hand without foretell has foretell. Its foretell cost is equal to its mana cost reduced by {2}. (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile it from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.) Whenever you foretell a card, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Dream Devourer (khm) 90
Heartless Summoning

Creature spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. Creatures you control get -1/-1.

Enchantment
Heartless Summoning (inr) 383
Sceptre of Eternal Glory

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.

Artifact
Sceptre of Eternal Glory (40k) 166
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (dsc) 94
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
Solemn Simulacrum (dsc) 253
Séance Board

Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, put a soul counter on this artifact. {T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of soul counters on this artifact. Spend this mana only to cast instant, sorcery, Demon, and Spirit spells.

Artifact
Séance Board (dsc) 40
Wayfarer's Bauble

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

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (lcc) 317

Ramp

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Draw

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Ambition's Cost

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Ambition's Cost (moc) 246
Ancient Craving

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Ancient Craving (c21) 135
Baleful Force

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

Creature
Baleful Force (c13) 70
Bloodgift Demon

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, target player draws a card and loses 1 life.

Creature
Bloodgift Demon (scd) 69
Demonlord Belzenlok

Flying, trample When Demonlord Belzenlok enters, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card, then put that card into your hand. If the card's mana value is 4 or greater, repeat this process. Demonlord Belzenlok deals 1 damage to you for each card put into your hand this way.

Creature
Demonlord Belzenlok (sld) 159
Gonti, Lord of Luxury

Deathtouch When Gonti enters, look at the top four cards of target opponent's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest on the bottom of that library in a random order. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

Creature
Gonti, Lord of Luxury (cmm) 162
Greed

{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Hoarder's Greed

You lose 2 life and draw two cards, then clash with an opponent. If you win, repeat this process. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a higher mana value.)

Sorcery
Hoarder's Greed (lrw) 117
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
Infernal Sovereign (moc) 75
Keen Duelist

At the beginning of your upkeep, you and target opponent each reveal the top card of your library. You each lose life equal to the mana value of the card revealed by the other player. You each put the card you revealed into your hand.

Creature
Keen Duelist (sld) 828
Kothophed, Soul Hoarder

Flying Whenever a permanent owned by another player is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Kothophed, Soul Hoarder (sld) 162
Liliana's Contract

When this enchantment enters, you draw four cards and you lose 4 life. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control four or more Demons with different names, you win the game.

Enchantment
Liliana's Contract (sld) 161
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (voc) 133
Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (mkc) 133
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 {4} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Sorcery
Promise of Power (ddc) 54
The Speed Demon

Flying, trample Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.) At the beginning of your end step, you draw X cards and lose X life, where X is your speed.

Creature
The Speed Demon (dft) 105
Twilight Prophet

Flying Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.

Creature
Twilight Prophet (lcc) 211
Unholy Annex

Enchantment
Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber (dsk) 339

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Removal

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Baleful Mastery

You may pay {1}{B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. If the {1}{B} cost was paid, an opponent draws a card. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Baleful Mastery (otc) 126
Bitter Triumph

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life. Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Bitter Triumph (lci) 91
Blasphemous Edict

You may pay {B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost if there are thirteen or more creatures on the battlefield. Each player sacrifices thirteen creatures of their choice.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Edict (fdn) 57
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
Defile

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

Instant
Defile (mh1) 86
Demon of Dark Schemes

Flying When this creature enters, all other creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. Whenever another creature dies, you get {E} (an energy counter). {2}{B}, Pay {E}{E}{E}{E}: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control tapped.

Creature
Demon of Dark Schemes (kld) 73
Demon of Loathing

Flying, trample Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Demon of Loathing (gn3) 45
Doomsday Confluence

Choose X. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Each player sacrifices a nonartifact creature of their choice. • Create a 3/3 black Dalek artifact creature token with menace. • Each opponent discards a card.

Sorcery
Doomsday Confluence (who) 67
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
Dread Cacodemon

When this creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, destroy all creatures your opponents control, then tap all other creatures you control.

Creature
Dread Cacodemon (cma) 55
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 (otc) 134
In Garruk's Wake

Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.

Sorcery
In Garruk's Wake (znc) 45
Meteor Golem

When this creature enters, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls.

Creature Artifact
Meteor Golem (cmm) 399
Mutilate

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

Sorcery
Mutilate (mb2) 45
Nowhere to Run

Flash When this enchantment enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-3 until end of turn. Creatures your opponents control can be the targets of spells and abilities as though they didn't have hexproof. Ward abilities of those creatures don't trigger.

Enchantment
Nowhere to Run (dsk) 111
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
Noxious Gearhulk (dsc) 151
Oubliette

When this enchantment enters, target creature phases out until this enchantment 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 (plst) 2XM-100
Profane Command

Choose two — • Target player loses X life. • Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. • Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. • Up to X target creatures gain fear until end of turn. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Sorcery
Profane Command (scd) 99
Reaper from the Abyss

Flying Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, destroy target non-Demon creature.

Creature
Reaper from the Abyss (j25) 480
Shadowgrange Archfiend

When this creature enters, each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures they control. You gain life equal to the greatest power among creatures sacrificed this way. Madness—{2}{B}, Pay 8 life. (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Shadowgrange Archfiend (voc) 22
Shelob, Dread Weaver

Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls dies, exile it. {2}{B}, Put a creature card exiled with Shelob into its owner's graveyard: Put two +1/+1 counters on Shelob. Draw a card. {X}{1}{B}: Put target creature card with mana value X exiled with Shelob onto the battlefield tapped under your control.

Creature
Shelob, Dread Weaver (ltc) 29
Snuff Out

If you control a Swamp, you may pay 4 life rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant
Snuff Out (who) 222
Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

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Land

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Cabal Coffers

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

Land
Cabal Coffers (mb2) 106
Cabal Stronghold

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

Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Demolition Field (otc) 283
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, 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
Myriad Landscape (dsc) 289

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Swamps

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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 (blc) 78
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (unf) 237

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Maybeboard

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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 one additional mana of that color.

Artifact
Caged Sun (brr) 9
Chain Assassination

Freerunning {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its freerunning cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with an Assassin or commander.) Destroy target creature. If another creature died this turn, draw a card.

Instant
Chain Assassination (acr) 23
Endless Atlas

{2}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.

Artifact
Endless Atlas (cmm) 947
Go for the Throat

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Instant
Go for the Throat (moc) 250
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (inr) 119
Meathook Massacre II

When Meathook Massacre II enters, each player sacrifices X creatures of their choice. Whenever a creature you control dies, you may pay 3 life. If you do, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, they may pay 3 life. If they don't, return that card under your control with a finality counter on it.

Enchantment
Meathook Massacre II (dsk) 293
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 (plst) 7ED-149
Nihil Spellbomb

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {B}. If you do, draw a card.

Artifact
Nihil Spellbomb (scd) 270
Oblivion Stone

{4}, {T}: Put a fate counter on target permanent. {5}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy each nonland permanent without a fate counter on it, then remove all fate counters from all permanents.

Artifact
Oblivion Stone (brc) 153
Seizan, Perverter of Truth

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

Creature
Seizan, Perverter of Truth (mul) 15
Shard of the Nightbringer

Flying Drain Life — When this creature enters, if you cast it, target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Creature
Shard of the Nightbringer (40k) 55
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
Thran Dynamo

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

Artifact
Thran Dynamo (cmm) 415

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{"ops":[{"insert":"Mono-Black Control/Ramp/Demon Kindred, ft. Demonlord Belzenlok hidden commander. Ramp, draw cards, remove your opponents stuff, and hit face with demons. Win by either board wiping and then grinding them out with lots of Lantern activations, or by just preventing anyone else from winning until life totals get low enough Gary, Corrupt, and your decently sized fliers are threats to life totals.\n"}]}

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