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Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff · BW · 100 cards · 36 lands
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Bracket 3 - UpgradedCommander 1Creatures 39Instants 13Sorceries 6Artifacts 2Enchantments 3Lands 36
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Strategy
Lotho triggers on every player's second spell, not just yours, which makes a two-mana commander into a treasure engine powered by the whole table. The life loss is real but small, and this deck is built to convert those treasures into damage rather than into mana - the artifacts leaving play is the point, not the mana they make.
Early: Lotho on turn two, then get out of the way and let the table build your board. Esper Sentinel, Archivist of Oghma and Dark Confidant keep cards coming. Dark Ritual and Culling the Weak deploy ahead of curve, and Smothering Tithe stacks with Lotho to make treasure production genuinely absurd.
Mid: The payoffs are what turn treasures into a clock. Marionette Apprentice, Marionette Master, Disciple of the Vault and Nadier's Nightblade each drain when an artifact leaves, and Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat cover the creature half. Deadly Dispute and Village Rites sacrifice at instant speed. Orcish Bowmasters, Opposition Agent and Dauthi Voidwalker are the disruption that stops faster decks.
Late: Ad Nauseam is the button: with a low curve and a pile of treasures, it draws most of the deck, and the accumulated life from Serra Ascendant and the drain effects pays for it. Walking Ballista converts leftover mana into the last few points. Toxic Deluge and Damn reset a board you were never relying on anyway.
Win conditions: Wins by draining the table as treasures are sacrificed - Marionette Master and Disciple of the Vault doing most of the work - often in one large turn off Ad Nauseam.
- Marionette Master - Turns each sacrificed treasure into damage
- Disciple of the Vault - Cheap, repeatable drain per artifact
- Smothering Tithe - Stacks with Lotho for treasure volume
- Deadly Dispute - Instant-speed sacrifice and cards
- Ad Nauseam - Draws most of the deck in one turn
- Orcish Bowmasters - Punishes the draw the table is doing anyway
- Pitiless Plunderer - More treasures off every death
- Walking Ballista - Spends spare mana as damage
~$881.45
estimated to build this deck
Commander (1)
Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
Legendary Creature — Halfling Rogue
Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Creatures (39)
Esper Sentinel
Artifact Creature — Human Soldier
$60.54
Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is this creature's power.
Archivist of Oghma
Creature — Halfling Cleric
$6.06
Flash
Whenever an opponent searches their library, you gain 1 life and draw a card.
Bennie Bracks, Zoologist
Legendary Creature — Elf Druid
$11.33
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
At the beginning of each end step, if you created a token this turn, draw a card.
Grand Abolisher
Creature — Human Cleric
$17.41
During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.
Voice of Victory
Creature — Human Bard
$17.93
Mobilize 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, create two tapped and attacking 1/1 red Warrior creature tokens. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step.)
Your opponents can't cast spells during your turn.
Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
Legendary Creature — Human Advisor
$4.69
Whenever one or more tokens your opponents control enter, for each of them, create a tapped token that's a copy of it. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Whenever one or more tokens you control enter, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Dauthi Voidwalker
Creature — Dauthi Rogue
$4.08
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.
{T}, 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.
Orcish Bowmasters
Creature — Orc Archer
$46.5
Flash
When this creature enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, this creature deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.
Marionette Apprentice
Creature — Human Artificer
$2.62
Fabricate 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.)
Whenever another creature or artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.
Tataru Taru
Legendary Creature — Dwarf Advisor
$7.75
When Tataru Taru enters, you draw a card and target opponent may draw a card.
Scions' Secretary — Whenever an opponent draws a card, if it isn't that player's turn, create a tapped Treasure token. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Mirkwood Bats
Creature — Bat
$0.91
Flying
Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.
Kambal, Consul of Allocation
Legendary Creature — Human Advisor
$9.06
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Ranger-Captain of Eos
Creature — Human Soldier Ranger
$38.83
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a creature card with mana value 1 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Sacrifice this creature: Your opponents can't cast noncreature spells this turn.
Braids, Arisen Nightmare
Legendary Creature — Nightmare
$4.18
At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.
Academy Manufactor
Artifact Creature — Assembly-Worker
$7.86
If you would create a Clue, Food, or Treasure token, instead create one of each.
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Kor Cleric
$0.84
Deathtouch
Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Whenever another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.
Opposition Agent
Creature — Human Rogue
$21.16
Flash
You control your opponents while they're searching their libraries.
While an opponent is searching their library, they exile each card they find. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast them.
Mastermind Plum
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
$5.59
Whenever Mastermind Plum attacks, exile up to one target card from a graveyard. If an artifact card was exiled this way, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Whenever you cast a spell, if mana from a Treasure was spent to cast it, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Delney, Streetwise Lookout
Legendary Creature — Human Scout
$34.1
Creatures you control with power 2 or less can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater.
If a triggered ability of a creature you control with power 2 or less triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.
Nadier's Nightblade
Creature — Elf Warrior
$0.27
Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior
$0.23
When Abdel Adrian enters, exile any number of other nonland permanents you control until Abdel Adrian leaves the battlefield. Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token for each permanent exiled this way.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
Blood Artist
Creature — Vampire
$2.67
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Disciple of the Vault
Creature — Human Cleric
$0.9
Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may have target opponent lose 1 life.
Hoarding Broodlord
Creature — Dragon
$4.52
Convoke
Flying
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may play it.
Spells you cast from exile have convoke.
Serra Ascendant
Creature — Human Monk
$28.21
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
As long as you have 30 or more life, this creature gets +5/+5 and has flying.
Mangara, the Diplomat
Legendary Creature — Human Cleric
$0.36
Lifelink
Whenever an opponent attacks with creatures, if two or more of those creatures are attacking you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card.
Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, draw a card.
Aven Interrupter
Creature — Bird Rogue
$3.36
Flash
Flying
When this creature enters, exile target spell. It becomes plotted. (Its owner may cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost.)
Spells your opponents cast from graveyards or from exile cost {2} more to cast.
Soul Warden
Creature — Human Cleric
$2.77
Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.
Dark Confidant
Creature — Human Wizard
$3.65
At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.
Zulaport Cutthroat
Creature — Human Rogue Ally
$1.02
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Marionette Master
Creature — Human Artificer
$1.71
Fabricate 3 (When this creature enters, put three +1/+1 counters on it or create three 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.)
Whenever an artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, target opponent loses life equal to this creature's power.
Lurrus of the Dream-Den
Legendary Creature — Cat Nightmare
$2.04
Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has mana value 2 or less. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.)
Lifelink
Once during each of your turns, you may cast a permanent spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard.
Leonin Relic-Warder
Creature — Cat Cleric
$0.19
When this creature enters, you may exile target artifact or enchantment.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Pitiless Plunderer
Creature — Human Pirate
$3.75
Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Baron Bertram Graywater
Legendary Creature — Vampire Noble
$0.42
Whenever one or more tokens you control enter, create a 1/1 black Vampire Rogue creature token with lifelink. This ability triggers only once each turn.
{1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Draw a card.
Walking Ballista
Artifact Creature — Construct
$5.22
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
{4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.
Warren Soultrader
Creature — Zombie Goblin Wizard
$16.4
Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Grim Hireling
Creature — Tiefling Rogue
$10.79
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create two Treasure tokens.
{B}, Sacrifice X Treasures: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.
Discerning Financier
Creature — Human Noble
$0.29
At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
{2}{W}: Choose another player. That player gains control of target Treasure you control. You draw a card.
Instants (13)
Deadly Rollick
Instant
$27.67
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.
Swords to Plowshares
Instant
$1.42
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Path to Exile
Instant
$1.01
Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Deadly Dispute
Instant
$0.29
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 "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Culling the Weak
Instant
$6.88
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.
Cabal Ritual
Instant
$14.59
Add {B}{B}{B}.
Threshold — Add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} instead if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
Ad Nauseam
Instant
$9.86
Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may repeat this process any number of times.
Sacrifice
Instant
$4.57
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add an amount of {B} equal to the sacrificed creature's mana value.
Village Rites
Instant
$0.28
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Rain of Filth
Instant
$5.3
Until end of turn, lands you control gain "Sacrifice this land: Add {B}."
Sorceries (6)
Reanimate
Sorcery
$6.93
Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to that card's mana value.
Diabolic Intent
Sorcery
$15.22
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Beseech the Mirror
Sorcery
$19.12
Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.)
Search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. If this spell was bargained, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost if that spell's mana value is 4 or less. Put the exiled card into your hand if it wasn't cast this way.
Demonic Tutor
Sorcery
$62.17
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Damn
Sorcery
$1.91
Destroy target creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.
Overload {2}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Toxic Deluge
Sorcery
$4.23
As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life.
All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.
Artifacts (2)
Wishclaw Talisman
Artifact
$1.83
This artifact enters with three wish counters on it.
{1}, {T}, Remove a wish counter from this artifact: Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. An opponent gains control of this artifact. Activate only during your turn.
Inspiring Statuary
Artifact
$0.25
Nonartifact spells you cast have improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast those spells. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)
Enchantments (3)
Blind Obedience
Enchantment
$4.41
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.)
Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.
Animate Dead
Enchantment — Aura
$6.85
Enchant creature card in a graveyard
When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.
Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.
Smothering Tithe
Enchantment
$54.96
Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Lands (36)
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Legendary Land
$55.46
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Bojuka Bog
Land
$1.24
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.
Emergence Zone
Land
$3.79
{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.
Urza's Saga
Enchantment Land — Urza's Saga
$36.03
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — This Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}."
II — This Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Phyrexian Tower
Legendary Land
$28.43
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
Legendary Land
$11.85
{T}: Add {B}.
Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
Legendary Land
$5.66
{T}: Add {W}.
Channel — {2}{W}, Discard this card: It deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Vault of the Archangel
Land
$0.74
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.
City of Traitors
Land
$50.25
When you play another land, sacrifice this land.
{T}: Add {C}{C}.
Fomori Vault
Land
$12.7
{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Discard a card: Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of artifacts you control. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Basic lands: 15 Swamp 9 Plains
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