Winter, Tormented Loner
When Winter enters, you may sacrifice a creature or planeswalker. When you do, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. Winter gets +1/+0 for each creature and planeswalker card in your graveyard.
How Winter decks play in EDH
Winter, Tormented Loner is a mono-black commander costing 2B, and its legendary creature - human warlock line shapes the whole deck around it. Sacrifice is built into the card, which pairs it with cheap recursive creatures and payoffs that trigger when something dies. The cards below are the ones Winter, Tormented Loner decks actually play most often, grouped by the job they do.
Most-played cards
20 cards · about $41.71Play rates from EDHREC. Prices from Scryfall, refreshed daily.
Ramp (1)
Card draw (1)
Creatures (13)
Synergy & payoffs (5)
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Grimoire generates a complete, Commander-legal Winter, Tormented Loner decklist with a written strategy, a full mana base and live prices — from the whole card pool, or only from cards you already own.
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What colours can I use in a Winter, Tormented Loner deck?
Winter, Tormented Loner has a mono-black colour identity, so every card in the deck must be black or colourless. That includes mana symbols in rules text, not just casting cost.
What are the best cards for Winter, Tormented Loner?
The cards played most often in Winter, Tormented Loner decks include Dark Matter Manipulator, Liliana the Repentant, Darklight Phoenix. The full list of staples above is grouped by the job each card does, so you can see the deck's skeleton rather than just a pile of names.
How much does a Winter, Tormented Loner deck cost?
The 20 most-played cards shown above come to roughly $41.71 at current market prices. A complete 100-card build costs more, and Grimoire can generate a budget version instead if you set a price ceiling.
Can I build a Winter, Tormented Loner deck from cards I already own?
Yes. Import your collection into Grimoire and choose "my cards" when you build. The generator will only use cards you actually own, and the Missing Cards page shows what you would need to buy to finish any list.