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Balthor, Classic Dwarf
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $910.48
Salt Sum: 40.96
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Commander

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Balthor the Defiled

Minion creatures get +1/+1. {B}{B}{B}, Exile Balthor the Defiled: Each player returns all black and all red creature cards from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Balthor the Defiled (jud) 61
1

Cycling

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Twisted Abomination

{B}: Regenerate Twisted Abomination. Swampcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Twisted Abomination (scg) 76
1
Undead Gladiator

{1}{B}, Discard a card: Return Undead Gladiator from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your upkeep. Cycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Undead Gladiator (ons) 178
1

Discard

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Putrid Imp

Discard a card: Putrid Imp gains flying until end of turn. Threshold — As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, Putrid Imp gets +1/+1 and can't block.

Creature
Putrid Imp (tor) 77
1

Drain

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Gempalm Polluter

Cycling {B}{B} ({B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle Gempalm Polluter, you may have target player lose life equal to the number of Zombies on the battlefield.

Creature
Gempalm Polluter (lgn) 70
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 (tsr) 323
1
Shepherd of Rot

{T}: Each player loses 1 life for each Zombie on the battlefield.

Creature
Shepherd of Rot (ons) 168
1
Vengeful Dead

Whenever Vengeful Dead or another Zombie dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Vengeful Dead (scg) 80
1

Draw

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Graveborn Muse

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of Zombies you control.

Creature
Graveborn Muse (lgn) 73
1
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 (ice) 154
1
Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (apc) 47
1
Undead Augur

Whenever Undead Augur or another Zombie you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Creature
Undead Augur (h1r) 15
1
Vanquisher's Banner

As Vanquisher's Banner enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

Artifact
Vanquisher's Banner (tsr) 402
1
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Protection from Humans Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card. {B}{B}, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician (tsr) 336
1

Graveyard Hate

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Leyline of the Void

If Leyline of the Void is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Enchantment
Leyline of the Void (tsr) 326
1
Tormod's Crypt

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

Artifact
Tormod's Crypt (chr) 109
1
Withered Wretch

{1}: Exile target card from a graveyard.

Creature
Withered Wretch (lgn) 86
1

Land

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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 (tsr) 406
1
Cabal Coffers

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

Land
Cabal Coffers (tor) 139
1
High Market

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Land
High Market (mmq) 320
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (ons) 339
34
Unholy Grotto

{T}: Add {C}. {B}, {T}: Put target Zombie card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Unholy Grotto (ons) 327
1

Mill

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Stinkweed Imp

Flying Whenever Stinkweed Imp deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. Dredge 5 (If you would draw a card, you may mill five cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

Creature
Stinkweed Imp (tsr) 332
1

Protection

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No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Enchantment
No Mercy (ulg) 56
1

Ramp

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Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (5ed) 349
1
Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on Black Market. At the beginning of your precombat main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on Black Market.

Enchantment
Black Market (mmq) 116
1
Bubbling Muck

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

Sorcery
Bubbling Muck (uds) 54
1
Charcoal Diamond

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

Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (7ed) 289
1
Jet Medallion

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

Artifact
Jet Medallion (tmp) 292
1
Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (inv) 306
1
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (3ed) 274
1
Solemn Simulacrum

When Solemn Simulacrum enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When Solemn Simulacrum dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (tsr) 400
1
Undead Warchief

Zombie spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Zombie creatures you control get +2/+1.

Creature
Undead Warchief (scg) 78
1

Recursion

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Bone Dancer

Whenever Bone Dancer attacks and isn't blocked, you may put the top creature card of defending player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. If you do, Bone Dancer assigns no combat damage this turn.

Creature
Bone Dancer (wth) 62
1
Chainer, Dementia Master

All Nightmares get +1/+1. {B}{B}{B}, Pay 3 life: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. That creature is black and is a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types. When Chainer, Dementia Master leaves the battlefield, exile all Nightmares.

Creature
Chainer, Dementia Master (tor) 56
1
Coffin Queen

You may choose not to untap Coffin Queen during your untap step. {2}{B}, {T}: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. When Coffin Queen becomes untapped or you lose control of Coffin Queen, exile that creature.

Creature
Coffin Queen (tmp) 114
1
Gravespawn Sovereign

Tap five untapped Zombies you control: Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Gravespawn Sovereign (ons) 152
1
Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Living Death (tmp) 142
1
Lord of the Undead

Other Zombie creatures get +1/+1. {1}{B}, {T}: Return target Zombie card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Lord of the Undead (pls) 44
1
Phyrexian Delver

When Phyrexian Delver enters the battlefield, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.

Creature
Phyrexian Delver (inv) 115
1
Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (ulg) 63
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 (tmp) 151
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 (usg) 166
1

Removal

Quantity: 11Price: $153.85
Ascendant Evincar

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) Other black creatures get +1/+1. Nonblack creatures get -1/-1.

Creature
Ascendant Evincar (nem) 51
1
Attrition

{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.

Enchantment
Attrition (uds) 52
1
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 (scg) 64
1
Gloomdrifter

Flying Threshold — As long as seven or more cards are in your graveyard, Gloomdrifter has "When Gloomdrifter enters the battlefield, nonblack creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn."

Creature
Gloomdrifter (tor) 61
1
Grave Pact

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

Enchantment
Grave Pact (sth) 60
1
Mutilate

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

Sorcery
Mutilate (tor) 73
1
Noxious Ghoul

Whenever Noxious Ghoul or another Zombie enters the battlefield, all non-Zombie creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Noxious Ghoul (lgn) 77
1
Oubliette

When Oubliette enters the battlefield, 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 (arn) 31
1
Shriekmaw

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) When Shriekmaw enters the battlefield, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters the battlefield.)

Creature
Shriekmaw (tsr) 331
1
Stronghold Assassin

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.

Creature
Stronghold Assassin (sth) 71
1
Visara the Dreadful

Flying {T}: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Creature
Visara the Dreadful (ons) 179
1

Sac Outlet

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Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Artifact
Altar of Dementia (tmp) 276
1
Carrion Feeder

Carrion Feeder can't block. Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Carrion Feeder.

Creature
Carrion Feeder (scg) 59
1
Nantuko Husk

Sacrifice a creature: Nantuko Husk gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Creature
Nantuko Husk (ons) 159
1
Phyrexian Ghoul

Sacrifice a creature: Phyrexian Ghoul gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Creature
Phyrexian Ghoul (usg) 148
1

Tutor

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Buried Alive

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

Sorcery
Buried Alive (wth) 63
1
Corpse Harvester

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a Zombie card and a Swamp card, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Corpse Harvester (lgn) 62
1
Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (3ed) 105
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) 401
1
Vampiric Tutor

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

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (6ed) 161
1
Vile Entomber

Deathtouch When Vile Entomber enters the battlefield, search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Creature
Vile Entomber (mh2) 403
1

Zombie

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Soulless One

Soulless One's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Zombies on the battlefield plus the number of Zombie cards in all graveyards.

Creature
Soulless One (ons) 171
1
Zombie Master

Other Zombie creatures have swampwalk. (They can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) Other Zombies have "{B}: Regenerate this permanent."

Creature
Zombie Master (3ed) 138
1
Zombie Trailblazer

Tap an untapped Zombie you control: Target land becomes a Swamp until end of turn. Tap an untapped Zombie you control: Target creature gains swampwalk until end of turn. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

Creature
Zombie Trailblazer (tor) 89
1

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"Balthor old border tribal deck built around a theme of mono black aristocrats and zombies.\n\nForeign Language Cards (8):\n\nJapanese (5):\nJet Medallion\nCabal Coffers\nGrave Pact\nNecropotence\nNo Mercy\n\nItalian (2):\nSol Ring\nDemonic Tutor\n\nSpanish (1):\nPhyrexian Altar\n\nConstructed in Spring 2021.\n"}]}
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