Art by Julie Bell
Saved commander deck
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.
Prompt: Black Widow, Daring Operative commander deck
Commander
1 cards
Black Widow, Daring Operative
{4}{B}Legendary Creature — Human Spy Hero
Chosen commander for the requested strategy.
Ramp
10 cards
Crypt Ghast
{3}{B}Creature — Spirit
doubles swamp mana and provides extort on a creature body
Burnished Hart
{3}Artifact Creature — Elk
lands ramp while placing a creature into the graveyard
Solemn Simulacrum
{4}Artifact Creature — Golem
fetches a land and draws upon death as a creature
Card Draw
10 cards
Morbid Opportunist
{2}{B}Creature — Human Rogue
draws cards from consistent creature deaths
Grim Haruspex
{2}{B}Creature — Human Wizard
creature-based draw whenever nontoken creatures die
Midnight Reaper
{2}{B}Creature — Zombie Knight
turns dying creatures into fresh card advantage
Undead Butler
{1}{B}Creature — Zombie
mills creature cards on entry and recurs one upon death
Corpse Augur
{3}{B}Creature — Zombie Wizard
cashes in on massive graveyard creature counts for cards
Disciple of Bolas
{3}{B}Creature — Human Wizard
sacrifices a creature for substantial card draw and life gain
Ayara, First of Locthwain
{B}{B}{B}Legendary Creature — Elf Noble
creature sacrifice engine that drains opponents and draws cards
Removal
10 cards
Ravenous Chupacabra
{2}{B}{B}Creature — Beast Horror
creature-based targeted destruction
Shriekmaw
{4}{B}Creature — Elemental
evoke puts a creature in graveyard immediately while removing a threat
Fleshbag Marauder
{2}{B}Creature — Zombie Warrior
forces each opponent to sacrifice and bins itself or fodder
Plaguecrafter
{2}{B}Creature — Human Shaman
efficient edict effect attached to a creature body
Demon's Disciple
{2}{B}Creature — Human Cleric
additional creature-based edict effect
Noxious Gearhulk
{4}{B}{B}Artifact Creature — Construct
removes an opposing threat, gains life, and sits as a heavy creature
Living Death
{3}{B}{B}Sorcery
board wipe and massive reanimation wave for your loaded graveyard
Threats/Wincons
24 cards
Syr Konrad, the Grim
{3}{B}{B}Legendary Creature — Human Knight
deals immense incidental damage from creatures entering and leaving graveyards
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
{3}{B}{B}Creature — Zombie
massive life drain scaling with black devotion
Sepulchral Primordial
{5}{B}{B}Creature — Avatar
reanimates the best creatures from each opponent's graveyard
Massacre Wurm
{3}{B}{B}{B}Creature — Phyrexian Wurm
wipes small blockers and drains opponents heavily
Vile Entomber
{2}{B}{B}Creature — Zombie Warlock
creature tutor that deposits key creature cards into the graveyard
Gravebreaker Lamia
{4}{B}Enchantment Creature — Snake Lamia
entombs a creature on entry and discounts graveyard casts
Stinkweed Imp
{2}{B}Creature — Imp
repeatable dredge engine to fill the graveyard rapidly with creatures
Doom Whisperer
{3}{B}{B}Creature — Nightmare Demon
large evasive body that surveils cards directly into the graveyard
Abhorrent Overlord
{5}{B}{B}Creature — Demon
produces a massive flying army based on devotion
Nirkana Revenant
{4}{B}{B}Creature — Vampire Shade
mana doubling threat that can pump itself for lethal damage
Chainer, Dementia Master
{3}{B}{B}Legendary Creature — Human Minion
instant-speed repeatable reanimation engine from any graveyard
Balthor the Defiled
{2}{B}{B}Legendary Creature — Zombie Dwarf
mass reanimator that returns all black creatures to play
Sheoldred, Whispering One
{5}{B}{B}Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor
edict removal on opponents and reanimation each upkeep
Archon of Cruelty
{6}{B}{B}Creature — Archon
punishing attack and entry trigger that dominates games
Kokusho, the Evening Star
{4}{B}{B}Legendary Creature — Dragon Spirit
powerful death trigger that drains each opponent for five
Junji, the Midnight Sky
{3}{B}{B}Legendary Creature — Dragon Spirit
flexible death trigger providing discard or creature reanimation
Massacre Girl
{3}{B}{B}Legendary Creature — Human Assassin
cascading board clear on a creature body
Dread Presence
{3}{B}Creature — Nightmare
generates card advantage or removal whenever swamps enter
Mortivore
{2}{B}{B}Creature — Lhurgoyf
grows massive based on the total number of creatures in all graveyards
Bonehoard
{4}Artifact — Equipment
living weapon threat scaling off creatures in all graveyards
Nighthowler
{1}{B}{B}Enchantment Creature — Horror
bestow creature that pumps Black Widow based on creatures in graveyards
Geth, Lord of the Vault
{4}{B}{B}Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Zombie
reanimates opponents' permanents while milling their libraries
Woe Strider
{2}{B}Creature — Horror
free sacrifice outlet with escape utility from the graveyard
Reassembling Skeleton
{1}{B}Creature — Skeleton Warrior
reusable sacrifice fodder and graveyard creature
Utility
8 cards
Stitcher's Supplier
{B}Creature — Zombie
mills six total cards across entering and dying
Altar of Dementia
{2}Artifact
sacrifice outlet that aggressively self-mills based on power
Entomb
{B}Instant
instantly places your best creature directly into the graveyard
Buried Alive
{2}{B}Sorcery
tutors three creature cards straight into the graveyard for Black Widow
Whispersilk Cloak
{3}Artifact — Equipment
makes Black Widow completely unblockable to guarantee her damage trigger
Key to the City
{2}Artifact
discards creature cards to make Black Widow unblockable and draws cards
