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Beginner's Commander Deck (Black)
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Commander

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Taborax, Hope's Demise

Flying Taborax has lifelink as long as it has five or more +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Taborax. If that creature was a Cleric, you may draw a card. If you do, you lose 1 life.

Creature
Taborax, Hope's Demise (j25) 69

Commander

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Board Wipes

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Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Decree of Pain (dsc) 136
Mutilate

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Sorcery
Mutilate (gvl) 55
Necromantic Selection

Destroy all creatures, then return a creature card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control. It's a black Zombie in addition to its other colors and types. Exile Necromantic Selection.

Sorcery
Necromantic Selection (scd) 94

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Clerics

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Acolyte of Aclazotz

{T}, Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Acolyte of Aclazotz (lci) 89
Acolyte of Xathrid

{1}{B}, {T}: Target player loses 1 life.

Creature
Acolyte of Xathrid (m10) 83
Archfiend's Vessel

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) When this creature enters, if it entered from your graveyard or you cast it from your graveyard, exile it. If you do, create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying.

Creature
Archfiend's Vessel (m21) 88
Blind Zealot

Intimidate (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice it. If you do, destroy target creature that player controls.

Creature
Blind Zealot (nph) 52
Bonecaller Cleric

{3}{B}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Bonecaller Cleric (clb) 117
Cabal Evangel

Creature
Cabal Evangel (dom) 78
Disciple of Phenax

When this creature enters, target player reveals a number of cards from their hand equal to your devotion to black. You choose one of them. That player discards that card. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Disciple of Phenax (ths) 84
Doomed Necromancer

{B}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Doomed Necromancer (afc) 98
Dream Devourer

Each nonland card in your hand without foretell has foretell. Its foretell cost is equal to its mana cost reduced by {2}. (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile it from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.) Whenever you foretell a card, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Dream Devourer (khm) 90
Elderfang Disciple

When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Elderfang Disciple (khm) 93
Infernal Vessel

When this creature dies, if it wasn't a Demon, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with two +1/+1 counters on it. It's a Demon in addition to its other types.

Creature
Infernal Vessel (fdn) 63
Merciless Eternal

Afflict 2 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, defending player loses 2 life.) {2}{B}, Discard a card: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Creature
Merciless Eternal (hou) 71
Priest of Forgotten Gods

{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.

Creature
Priest of Forgotten Gods (rvr) 90
Priest of Gix

When this creature enters, add {B}{B}{B}.

Creature
Priest of Gix (dde) 7
Qarsi High Priest

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Manifest the top card of your library. (Put that card onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Creature
Qarsi High Priest (frf) 80
Qarsi Sadist

Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, target opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Qarsi Sadist (dtk) 113
Servant of Nefarox

Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)

Creature
Servant of Nefarox (m13) 108
Shadow-Rite Priest

Other Clerics you control get +1/+1. {3}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another Cleric: Search your library for a black creature card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Shadow-Rite Priest (dmu) 106
Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Draw X cards, where X is that creature's power. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar (clb) 146
Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker

{T}, Sacrifice another creature or an artifact: For each opponent, you mill a card, then return that card from your graveyard to your hand unless that player pays 3 life. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.) Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker (clb) 148
Skemfar Shadowsage

When this creature enters, choose one — • Each opponent loses X life, where X is the greatest number of creatures you control that have a creature type in common. • You gain X life, where X is the greatest number of creatures you control that have a creature type in common.

Creature
Skemfar Shadowsage (khm) 110
Skirsdag High Priest

Morbid — {T}, Tap two untapped creatures you control: Create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying. Activate only if a creature died this turn.

Creature
Skirsdag High Priest (2xm) 106
Starscape Cleric

Offspring {2}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) Flying This creature can't block. Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Starscape Cleric (blb) 116
Stronghold Confessor

Kicker {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell.) Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) If this creature was kicked, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Stronghold Confessor (dom) 105
Tourach, Dread Cantor

Kicker {B}{B} (You may pay an additional {B}{B} as you cast this spell.) Protection from white Whenever an opponent discards a card, put a +1/+1 counter on Tourach. When Tourach enters, if it was kicked, target opponent discards two cards at random.

Creature
Tourach, Dread Cantor (mh2) 102
Valgavoth's Faithful

{3}{B}, Sacrifice this creature: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Valgavoth's Faithful (dsk) 121
Vengeful Reaper

Flying, deathtouch, haste Foretell {1}{B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Creature
Vengeful Reaper (khm) 116
Viconia, Drow Apostate

At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are four or more creature cards in your graveyard, return a creature card at random from your graveyard to your hand. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Viconia, Drow Apostate (clb) 156
Whisper, Blood Liturgist

{T}, Sacrifice two creatures: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Whisper, Blood Liturgist (cmm) 198
Withered Wretch

{1}: Exile target card from a graveyard.

Creature
Withered Wretch (hop) 45

Clerics

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Draw

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Icon of Ancestry

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. {3}, {T}: Look at the top three cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card of the chosen type from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Artifact
Icon of Ancestry (lcc) 305
Night's Whisper

You draw two cards and you lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Night's Whisper (dsc) 79
Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Read the Bones (j25) 479
Relic Vial

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card. As long as you control a Cleric, this artifact has "Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life."

Artifact
Relic Vial (znr) 250
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156
Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Village Rites (lcc) 212

Draw

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Land

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Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (j25) 87

Land

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (dsc) 92
Charcoal Diamond

This artifact enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}.

Artifact
Charcoal Diamond (clb) 305
Fellwar Stone

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (dsc) 245
Heraldic Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+0. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Artifact
Heraldic Banner (scd) 267
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (dsc) 248
Patchwork Banner

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Patchwork Banner (blb) 247
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (dsc) 94
Solemn Simulacrum

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.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (fdn) 257
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (dsc) 256
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (pip) 252

Ramp

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Recursion

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Oversold Cemetery

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Oversold Cemetery (dmr) 96
Return from Extinction

Choose one — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Return two target creature cards that share a creature type from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Return from Extinction (mh1) 104
Unearth

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.)

Sorcery
Unearth (2x2) 96
Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Victimize (mh3) 278

Recursion

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Single-Target Creature Removal

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Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Instant
Defile (40k) 199
Doom Blade

Destroy target nonblack creature.

Instant
Doom Blade (ima) 87
Go for the Throat

Destroy target nonartifact creature.

Instant
Go for the Throat (j25) 447
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (dsc) 143
Tragic Slip

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

Instant
Tragic Slip (cmm) 192

Single-Target Creature Removal

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"A very simple Commander deck based around teaching new players about the color Black and the game of Magic: the Gathering. A simple deck with a simple tagline: play Clerics, punish enemies for killing your Clerics. This deck is based around utilizing your Clerics' various graveyard recursion effects and overall group-slug-esque abilities to be able to punish enemies for attempting to mess with you. With classic removal spells like Go for the Throat, old favorites like Sign in Blood, and overall spooky theming with demons and priests working together, this deck is a very simple and effective microcosm of the color Black in Magic.\n"}]}
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