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Syr Konrad, the Grim · B · 100 cards · 37 lands
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Bracket 3 - UpgradedCommander 1Creatures 49Instants 5Sorceries 3Artifacts 3Enchantments 2Lands 37
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Strategy
Syr Konrad turns every creature card that moves through a graveyard into damage, and he does not care whose graveyard or which direction. Dying counts, being milled counts, and leaving your graveyard counts - which means a single recursive creature can trigger him twice in one loop. This list is built to keep that churn going rather than to attack: self-mill fills the yard, cheap recursion empties it, and Konrad drains the table three points at a time while you do something else.
Early: Land drops and mana first - Dark Ritual, Crypt Ghast, Jet Medallion and Millikin all exist to get a five-mana commander down ahead of schedule. Stitcher's Supplier, Stinkweed Imp and Golgari Thug are worth playing before Konrad even though they look like nothing: they are stocking the graveyard you are about to get paid for. Viscera Seer and Carrion Feeder are the free sacrifice outlets everything else plugs into.
Mid: With Konrad out, the engine is any creature that comes back. Reassembling Skeleton, Gravecrawler, Bloodghast, Nether Traitor and Cult Conscript each give you a loop: sacrifice for value, return it, and every step of that is a Konrad trigger plus whatever the outlet pays. Tortured Existence is the best card here for exactly that reason - discard a creature, return a creature, two triggers for one black mana. Priest of Forgotten Gods and Warren Soultrader turn the same bodies into mana and cards.
Late: Mesmeric Orb converts the whole table's untap steps into Konrad damage without you attacking at all, and Morality Shift or Undercity Informer can empty a library in one go. Gray Merchant, Massacre Wurm and Sheoldred close games the honest way, and Songs of the Damned off a full graveyard pays for any of them.
Win conditions: Wins by draining the table with Syr Konrad triggers - recursion loops, self-mill and sacrifice outlets each adding damage - with Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Massacre Wurm as the finishers when the drip is not fast enough.
- Tortured Existence - The engine - two Konrad triggers per activation
- Reassembling Skeleton - Free, repeatable sacrifice fodder
- Mesmeric Orb - Turns every untap into damage
- Gravecrawler - Recurs itself from the graveyard
- Priest of Forgotten Gods - Converts bodies into mana, cards and drain
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel - Finisher off a heavy black board
- Stitcher's Supplier - Cheap self-mill that starts the engine
- Viscera Seer - Free sacrifice outlet
~$483.25
estimated to build this deck
Commander (1)
Syr Konrad, the Grim
Legendary Creature — Human Knight
Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent.
{1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Creatures (49)
Reassembling Skeleton
Creature — Skeleton Warrior
$0.22
{1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Millikin
Artifact Creature — Construct
$0.23
{T}, Mill a card: Add {C}. (Activate only as an instant. To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
Golgari Thug
Creature — Human Warrior
$0.33
When this creature dies, put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Dredge 4 (If you would draw a card, you may mill four cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Stitcher's Supplier
Creature — Zombie
$0.23
When this creature enters or dies, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Dreadhound
Creature — Demon Dog
$0.18
When this creature enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Whenever a creature dies or a creature card is put into a graveyard from a library, each opponent loses 1 life.
Stinkweed Imp
Creature — Imp
$1.1
Flying
Whenever this creature 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.)
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.)
Blood Artist
Creature — Vampire
$2.67
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Plaguecrafter
Creature — Human Shaman
$0.36
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.
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}.
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.
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.
Accursed Marauder
Creature — Zombie Warrior
$0.28
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.
Viscera Seer
Creature — Vampire Wizard
$0.42
Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Fleshbag Marauder
Creature — Zombie Warrior
$0.19
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Morbid Opportunist
Creature — Human Rogue
$0.23
Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each 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.
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.
Massacre Wurm
Creature — Phyrexian Wurm
$1.81
When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.
Midnight Reaper
Creature — Zombie Knight
$0.23
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.
Angel of Suffering
Creature — Nightmare Angel
$3.88
Flying
If damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage and mill twice that many cards.
Grim Haruspex
Creature — Human Wizard
$2.61
Morph {B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.
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.")
Undead Butler
Creature — Zombie
$0.32
When this creature enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
When this creature dies, you may exile it. When you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Demon's Disciple
Creature — Human Cleric
$0.24
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice.
Gravecrawler
Creature — Zombie
$1.29
This creature can't block.
You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.
Ravenous Chupacabra
Creature — Beast Horror
$0.41
When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.
Pawn of Ulamog
Creature — Vampire Shaman
$0.52
Whenever this creature or another nontoken creature you control dies, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."
Bloodghast
Creature — Vampire Spirit
$0.93
This creature can't block.
This creature has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Doom Whisperer
Creature — Nightmare Demon
$5.69
Flying, trample
Pay 2 life: Surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Carrion Feeder
Creature — Zombie
$3.84
This creature can't block.
Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Massacre Girl
Legendary Creature — Human Assassin
$0.59
Menace
When Massacre Girl enters, each other creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever a creature dies this turn, each creature other than Massacre Girl gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Tormod, the Desecrator
Legendary Creature — Zombie Wizard
$0.88
Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Mindwrack Harpy
Enchantment Creature — Harpy
$0.23
Flying
At the beginning of combat on your turn, each player mills three cards.
Burnished Hart
Artifact Creature — Elk
$0.14
{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Merciless Executioner
Creature — Orc Warrior
$0.37
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Ophiomancer
Creature — Human Shaman
$0.95
At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.
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.")
Eye Collector
Creature — Faerie
$0.14
Flying
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, each player mills a card. (Each player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Umbral Collar Zealot
Creature — Human Cleric
$0.36
Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Sheoldred, Whispering One
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor
$18.58
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Ornithopter of Paradise
Artifact Creature — Thopter
$0.44
Flying
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Shriekmaw
Creature — Elemental
$0.22
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When this creature enters, 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.)
Woe Strider
Creature — Horror
$0.27
When this creature enters, create a 0/1 white Goat creature token.
Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1.
Escape—{3}{B}{B}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
This creature escapes with two +1/+1 counters on it.
Undercity Informer
Creature — Human Rogue
$0.15
{1}, Sacrifice a creature: Target player reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.
Fell Stinger
Creature — Zombie Scorpion
$0.18
Deathtouch
Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.)
When this creature exploits a creature, target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Priest of Forgotten Gods
Creature — Human Cleric
$0.6
{T}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature of their choice. You add {B}{B} and draw a card. (Activate only as an instant.)
Corpse Augur
Creature — Zombie Wizard
$0.11
When this creature dies, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of creature cards in target player's graveyard.
Instants (5)
Vampiric Tutor
Instant
$51
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.
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.
Corrupted Conviction
Instant
$0.37
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Sorceries (3)
Morality Shift
Sorcery
$5.39
Exchange your graveyard and library. Then shuffle your library.
Feed the Swarm
Sorcery
$0.22
Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.
Demonic Tutor
Sorcery
$62.17
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Artifacts (3)
Mesmeric Orb
Artifact
$17.34
Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent's controller mills a card.
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.
Enchantments (2)
Tortured Existence
Enchantment
$3.72
{B}, Discard a creature card: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
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 (37)
Bojuka Bog
Land
$1.24
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.
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.
Crypt of Agadeem
Land
$4.05
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each black creature card in your graveyard.
Cabal Stronghold
Land
$12.5
{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Add {B} for each basic Swamp you control.
Mortuary Mire
Land
$0.29
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
{T}: Add {B}.
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Legendary Land
$55.46
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Phyrexian Tower
Legendary Land
$28.43
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.
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.)
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.
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.
Dakmor Salvage
Land
$0.29
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Basic lands: 25 Swamp
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