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Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor · B · 100 cards · 36 lands
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Bracket 3 - UpgradedCommander 1Creatures 44Instants 8Sorceries 7Artifacts 3Enchantments 1Lands 36
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Strategy
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor leads a deck built from the cards players most often run with it, sacrificing its own creatures for value and draining the table. The list holds 12 ramp pieces, 9 pieces of targeted interaction, 2 board wipes and 9 sources of card draw, at an average mana value of 2.75.
Early: Use the early turns on mana. Dark Ritual and the rest of the 12 ramp pieces are what let the deck cast Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor on curve and keep casting after it.
Mid: Once the commander is down, the deck wants to be doing two things at once: advancing its own board and answering everyone else's. Grim Hireling is the first answer you will usually reach for, and Faerie Dreamthief keeps the hand full while you do it.
Late: Hold Archfiend of Ifnir for the turn the table gets ahead of you - with 2 in the deck you can afford to use one early and still have an answer later. At 2.75 average mana value the top end is cheap, so expect to deploy several spells a turn.
Win conditions: Wins by draining life a few points at a time while the board keeps recurring.
- Changeling Outcast - Core to the plan
- Tormented Soul - Core to the plan
- Vault Skirge - Core to the plan
- Battlefly Swarm - Core to the plan
- Nether Traitor - Core to the plan
- Vampire Cutthroat - Core to the plan
- Dauthi Voidwalker - Core to the plan
- Faerie Dreamthief - Card draw
~$568.60
estimated to build this deck
Commander (1)
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may pay 1 life. If they do, they draw a card.
{4}{B}{B}{B}, Discard X cards: Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.
Creatures (44)
Changeling Outcast
Creature — Shapeshifter
$1.58
Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
This creature can't block and can't be blocked.
Tormented Soul
Creature — Spirit
$0.21
This creature can't block and can't be blocked.
Vault Skirge
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Imp
$0.29
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Flying
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Battlefly Swarm
Creature — Phyrexian Insect
$0.3
Flying
{B}: This creature gains deathtouch until end of turn.
Nether Traitor
Creature — Spirit
$0.84
Haste
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Whenever another creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {B}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Vampire Cutthroat
Creature — Vampire Rogue
$0.57
Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much 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.
Faerie Dreamthief
Creature — Faerie Warlock
$0.33
Flying
When this creature enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
{2}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Dauthi Slayer
Creature — Dauthi Soldier
$0.4
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
This creature attacks each combat if able.
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.
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Creature — Zombie
$1.08
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.)
Crypt Ghast
Creature — Spirit
$12.01
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}.
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Horror Minion
$1.11
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)
Lifelink
For each {B} in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana.
Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.
Gixian Puppeteer
Creature — Phyrexian Warlock
$1.58
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
When this creature dies, return another target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
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.
Drana, Liberator of Malakir
Legendary Creature — Vampire Ally
$0.93
Flying, first strike
Whenever Drana deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on each attacking creature you control.
Nighthawk Scavenger
Creature — Vampire Rogue
$0.34
Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Nighthawk Scavenger's power is equal to 1 plus the number of card types among cards in your opponents' graveyards.
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor
$78.85
Deathtouch
Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life.
Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.
Gingerbrute
Artifact Creature — Food Golem
$0.25
Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)
{1}: This creature can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with haste.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: You gain 3 life.
Dauthi Horror
Creature — Dauthi Horror
$0.24
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
This creature can't be blocked by white creatures.
Vampire of the Dire Moon
Creature — Vampire
$0.46
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Stirge
Creature — Insect Bat
$0.24
Flying
This creature can't block.
Blood Drain — {1}{B}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.
Phyrexian Obliterator
Creature — Phyrexian Horror
$9.72
Trample
Whenever a source deals damage to this creature, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents of their choice.
Prickly Boggart
Creature — Goblin Rogue
$0.3
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Pilfering Imp
Creature — Imp
$0.25
Flying
{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. Activate only as a sorcery.
Basilica Screecher
Creature — Bat
$0.23
Flying
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.)
Hope of Ghirapur
Legendary Artifact Creature — Thopter
$2.9
Flying
Sacrifice Hope of Ghirapur: Until your next turn, target player who was dealt combat damage by Hope of Ghirapur this turn can't cast noncreature spells.
Tinybones, the Pickpocket
Legendary Creature — Skeleton Rogue
$5.57
Deathtouch
Whenever Tinybones deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target nonland permanent card from that player's graveyard, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.
Psychosis Crawler
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Horror
$0.77
Psychosis Crawler's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Whenever you draw a card, each opponent loses 1 life.
Gonti, Night Minister
Legendary Creature — Aetherborn Rogue
$0.82
Whenever a player casts a spell they don't own, that player creates a Treasure token.
Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller looks at the top card of that opponent's library and exiles it face down. They may play that card for as long as it remains exiled. Mana of any type can be spent to cast a spell this way.
Vilis, Broker of Blood
Legendary Creature — Demon
$9.8
Flying
{B}, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Qarsi Revenant
Creature — Vampire
$1.57
Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Renew — {2}{B}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Put a flying counter, a deathtouch counter, and a lifelink counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.
Defiler of Flesh
Creature — Phyrexian Horror
$0.46
Menace
As an additional cost to cast black permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {B} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of black mana you pay.
Whenever you cast a black permanent spell, target creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn.
Vampire Nighthawk
Creature — Vampire Shaman
$0.15
Flying
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)
Ayara, First of Locthwain
Legendary Creature — Elf Noble
$9.14
Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
{T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.
Rankle, Master of Pranks
Legendary Creature — Faerie Rogue
$2.73
Flying, haste
Whenever Rankle 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.
Dread Presence
Creature — Nightmare
$3.42
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.
Archfiend of Ifnir
Creature — Demon
$0.35
Flying
Whenever you cycle or discard another card, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature your opponents control.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Elegy Acolyte
Creature — Human Cleric
$0.45
Lifelink
Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, you draw a card and lose 1 life.
Void — At the beginning of your end step, if a nonland permanent left the battlefield this turn or a spell was warped this turn, create a 2/2 colorless Robot artifact creature token.
Nirkana Revenant
Creature — Vampire Shade
$7.37
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.
{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Bone Miser
Creature — Zombie Wizard
$30.62
Whenever you discard a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Whenever you discard a land card, add {B}{B}.
Whenever you discard a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.
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.
Solemn Simulacrum
Artifact Creature — Golem
$0.27
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.
Instants (8)
Defile
Instant
$1.49
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.
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.
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.")
Village Rites
Instant
$0.28
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Songs of the Damned
Instant
$2.93
Add {B} for each creature card in your graveyard.
Sorceries (7)
Feed the Swarm
Sorcery
$0.22
Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.
Exsanguinate
Sorcery
$0.36
Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Bubbling Muck
Sorcery
$2.24
Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional {B}.
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.
Peer into the Abyss
Sorcery
$3.35
Target player draws cards equal to half the number of cards in their library and loses half their life. Round up each time.
Unearth
Sorcery
$0.51
Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Artifacts (3)
Bolas's Citadel
Legendary Artifact
$9.05
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.
Sword of the Animist
Legendary Artifact — Equipment
$2.41
Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Equip {2}
Enchantments (1)
Necropotence
Enchantment
$23.81
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.
Lands (36)
Bojuka Bog
Land
$1.24
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Legendary Land
$55.46
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Cabal Stronghold
Land
$12.5
{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Add {B} for each basic Swamp you control.
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
Legendary Land
$53.08
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)
Witch's Cottage
Land — Swamp
$0.87
({T}: Add {B}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
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.
Shizo, Death's Storehouse
Legendary Land
$35
{T}: Add {B}.
{B}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Rogue's Passage
Land
$0.39
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Castle Locthwain
Land
$4.07
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Basic lands: 24 Swamp
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