Art by Julie Bell
Commander deckB
Black Widow, Daring Operative
Fill the graveyard with high-impact creatures using self-mill and sacrifice, then connect with Black Widow to burn every opponent down based on your graveyard creature count.
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Deck anatomy
What this list actually runs on: how cheaply it casts things, and whether it has enough ramp, card draw and interaction to keep up at the table. Each block is one card — hover for its name.
Mana curve · 62 nonland cards
The working parts
Counted from Scryfall’s community card tags, not from the builder’s own labels. A card that does two jobs counts twice, so these add up to more than the deck. The hatched band is a common rule of thumb, not a law — combo decks run leaner, battlecruiser decks heavier.
Colored mana symbols
Commander
1Black Widow, Daring Operative
4BLegendary Creature — Human Spy Hero
Chosen commander for the requested strategy.
Ramp
10
Crypt Ghast
3BCreature — Spirit
doubles swamp mana and provides extort on a creature body
Burnished Hart
3Artifact Creature — Elk
lands ramp while placing a creature into the graveyard
Solemn Simulacrum
4Artifact Creature — Golem
fetches a land and draws upon death as a creature
Card Draw
10
Morbid Opportunist
2BCreature — Human Rogue
draws cards from consistent creature deaths
Grim Haruspex
2BCreature — Human Wizard
creature-based draw whenever nontoken creatures die
Midnight Reaper
2BCreature — Zombie Knight
turns dying creatures into fresh card advantage
Undead Butler
1BCreature — Zombie
mills creature cards on entry and recurs one upon death
Corpse Augur
3BCreature — Zombie Wizard
cashes in on massive graveyard creature counts for cards
Disciple of Bolas
3BCreature — Human Wizard
sacrifices a creature for substantial card draw and life gain
Ayara, First of Locthwain
BBBLegendary Creature — Elf Noble
creature sacrifice engine that drains opponents and draws cards
Removal
10
Ravenous Chupacabra
2BBCreature — Beast Horror
creature-based targeted destruction
Shriekmaw
4BCreature — Elemental
evoke puts a creature in graveyard immediately while removing a threat
Fleshbag Marauder
2BCreature — Zombie Warrior
forces each opponent to sacrifice and bins itself or fodder
Plaguecrafter
2BCreature — Human Shaman
efficient edict effect attached to a creature body
Demon's Disciple
2BCreature — Human Cleric
additional creature-based edict effect
Noxious Gearhulk
4BBArtifact Creature — Construct
removes an opposing threat, gains life, and sits as a heavy creature
Living Death
3BBSorcery
board wipe and massive reanimation wave for your loaded graveyard
Threats/Wincons
24
Syr Konrad, the Grim
3BBLegendary Creature — Human Knight
deals immense incidental damage from creatures entering and leaving graveyards
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
3BBCreature — Zombie
massive life drain scaling with black devotion
Sepulchral Primordial
5BBCreature — Avatar
reanimates the best creatures from each opponent's graveyard
Massacre Wurm
3BBBCreature — Phyrexian Wurm
wipes small blockers and drains opponents heavily
Vile Entomber
2BBCreature — Zombie Warlock
creature tutor that deposits key creature cards into the graveyard
Gravebreaker Lamia
4BEnchantment Creature — Snake Lamia
entombs a creature on entry and discounts graveyard casts
Stinkweed Imp
2BCreature — Imp
repeatable dredge engine to fill the graveyard rapidly with creatures
Doom Whisperer
3BBCreature — Nightmare Demon
large evasive body that surveils cards directly into the graveyard
Abhorrent Overlord
5BBCreature — Demon
produces a massive flying army based on devotion
Nirkana Revenant
4BBCreature — Vampire Shade
mana doubling threat that can pump itself for lethal damage
Chainer, Dementia Master
3BBLegendary Creature — Human Minion
instant-speed repeatable reanimation engine from any graveyard
Balthor the Defiled
2BBLegendary Creature — Zombie Dwarf
mass reanimator that returns all black creatures to play
Sheoldred, Whispering One
5BBLegendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor
edict removal on opponents and reanimation each upkeep
Archon of Cruelty
6BBCreature — Archon
punishing attack and entry trigger that dominates games
Kokusho, the Evening Star
4BBLegendary Creature — Dragon Spirit
powerful death trigger that drains each opponent for five
Junji, the Midnight Sky
3BBLegendary Creature — Dragon Spirit
flexible death trigger providing discard or creature reanimation
Massacre Girl
3BBLegendary Creature — Human Assassin
cascading board clear on a creature body
Dread Presence
3BCreature — Nightmare
generates card advantage or removal whenever swamps enter
Mortivore
2BBCreature — Lhurgoyf
grows massive based on the total number of creatures in all graveyards
Bonehoard
4Artifact — Equipment
living weapon threat scaling off creatures in all graveyards
Nighthowler
1BBEnchantment Creature — Horror
bestow creature that pumps Black Widow based on creatures in graveyards
Geth, Lord of the Vault
4BBLegendary Creature — Phyrexian Zombie
reanimates opponents' permanents while milling their libraries
Woe Strider
2BCreature — Horror
free sacrifice outlet with escape utility from the graveyard
Reassembling Skeleton
1BCreature — Skeleton Warrior
reusable sacrifice fodder and graveyard creature
Utility
8
Stitcher's Supplier
BCreature — Zombie
mills six total cards across entering and dying
Altar of Dementia
2Artifact
sacrifice outlet that aggressively self-mills based on power
Buried Alive
2BSorcery
tutors three creature cards straight into the graveyard for Black Widow
Whispersilk Cloak
3Artifact — Equipment
makes Black Widow completely unblockable to guarantee her damage trigger
Key to the City
2Artifact
discards creature cards to make Black Widow unblockable and draws cards
