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Maha Rat Stax
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $203.92
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Commander

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Maha, Its Feathers Night

Flying, trample Ward—Discard a card. Creatures your opponents control have base toughness 1.

Creature
Maha, Its Feathers Night (blb) 100

Commander

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Discard

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Bandit's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) When this Class enters, each opponent discards two cards unless they discard a nonland card. {B}: Level 2 At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if that player has one or fewer cards in hand, they lose 2 life. {3}{B}: Level 3 At the beginning of your draw step, draw an additional card for each opponent who has one or fewer cards in hand.

Enchantment
Bandit's Talent (blb) 83
Burglar Rat

When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Burglar Rat (fdn) 170
Liliana's Specter

Flying When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Liliana's Specter (plst) M11-104
Megrim

Whenever an opponent discards a card, this enchantment deals 2 damage to that player.

Enchantment
Megrim (m10) 104
Painful Quandary

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player loses 5 life unless they discard a card.

Enchantment
Painful Quandary (fdn) 179
Rankle, Master of Pranks

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.

Creature
Rankle, Master of Pranks (otc) 148
Rotting Rats

When this creature enters, each player discards a card. Unearth {1}{B} ({1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Rotting Rats (hop) 39
Seeker's Folly

Choose one — • Target opponent discards two cards. • Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Seeker's Folly (fdn) 69
The Raven Man

At the beginning of each end step, if a player discarded a card this turn, create a 1/1 black Bird creature token with flying and "This token can't block." {3}{B}, {T}: Each opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
The Raven Man (dmu) 289
Tinybones Joins Up

When Tinybones Joins Up enters, any number of target players each discard a card. Whenever a legendary creature you control enters, any number of target players each mill a card and lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Tinybones Joins Up (otj) 108
Waste Not

Whenever an opponent discards a creature card, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token. Whenever an opponent discards a land card, add {B}{B}. Whenever an opponent discards a noncreature, nonland card, draw a card.

Enchantment
Waste Not (c16) 117

Discard

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Drain

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Blood Artist

Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Blood Artist (inr) 97
Gray Merchant of Asphodel

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.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (dsc) 142
Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Zulaport Cutthroat (blc) 190

Drain

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Draw

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Dark Confidant

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Creature
Dark Confidant (rav) 81
Gruesome Realization

Choose one — • You draw two cards and you lose 2 life. • Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Gruesome Realization (bro) 103
Indulgent Tormentor

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card unless target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice or pays 3 life.

Creature
Indulgent Tormentor (scd) 81
Morbid Opportunist

Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Morbid Opportunist (inr) 124
Ob Nixilis Reignited

+1: You draw a card and you lose 1 life. −3: Destroy target creature. −8: Target opponent gets an emblem with "Whenever a player draws a card, you lose 2 life."

Planeswalker
Ob Nixilis Reignited (ddr) 36
Phyrexian Arena

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

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (fdn) 180
Sign in Blood

Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.

Sorcery
Sign in Blood (dsc) 156
Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Sorcery
Syphon Mind (scd) 111

Draw

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Finisher

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Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery
Exsanguinate (j25) 437
Unstoppable Slasher

Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, they lose half their life, rounded up. When this creature dies, if it had no counters on it, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with two stun counters on it.

Creature
Unstoppable Slasher (dsk) 312

Finisher

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Land

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Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 303
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 283

Land

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Lifegain

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Qarsi Revenant

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.

Creature
Qarsi Revenant (tdm) 338

Lifegain

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Protection

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Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (fdn) 258

Protection

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Ramp

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Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Bontu's Monument (drc) 124
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (ice) 120
Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 56

Ramp

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Recursion

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Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (otp) 18
Rise of the Dark Realms

Put all creature cards from all graveyards onto the battlefield under your control.

Sorcery
Rise of the Dark Realms (fdn) 183
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

Recursion

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Removal

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Accursed Marauder

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.

Creature
Accursed Marauder (mh3) 80
Blasphemous Edict

You may pay {B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost if there are thirteen or more creatures on the battlefield. Each player sacrifices thirteen creatures of their choice.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Edict (fdn) 57
Consuming Corruption

Consuming Corruption deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Instant
Consuming Corruption (mh3) 84
Drag to the Underworld

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.) Destroy target creature.

Instant
Drag to the Underworld (thb) 89
Eaten Alive

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {3}{B}. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Sorcery
Eaten Alive (inr) 106
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (dsc) 78
Final Vengeance

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or enchantment. Exile target creature.

Sorcery
Final Vengeance (dsk) 99
Flare of Malice

You may sacrifice a nontoken black creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Instant
Flare of Malice (mh3) 95
Gatekeeper of Malakir

Kicker {B} (You may pay an additional {B} as you cast this spell.) When this creature enters, if it was kicked, target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Gatekeeper of Malakir (plst) ZEN-89
Kaervek, the Spiteful

Other creatures get -1/-1.

Creature
Kaervek, the Spiteful (m21) 106
Mutilate

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

Sorcery
Mutilate (m13) 102
Night of Souls' Betrayal

All creatures get -1/-1.

Enchantment
Night of Souls' Betrayal (ima) 99
Season of Loss

Choose up to five {P} worth of modes. You may choose the same mode more than once. {P} — Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice. {P}{P} — Draw a card for each creature that died under your control this turn. {P}{P}{P} — Each opponent loses X life, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Sorcery
Season of Loss (blb) 112
Suffocating Fumes

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Suffocating Fumes (plst) IKO-100
Thornplate Intimidator

Offspring {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) When this creature enters, target opponent loses 3 life unless they sacrifice a nonland permanent of their choice or discard a card.

Creature
Thornplate Intimidator (blb) 117
Typhoid Rats

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature
Typhoid Rats (j25) 497

Removal

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Sac Outlet

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Bontu the Glorified

Menace, indestructible Bontu can't attack or block unless a creature died under your control this turn. {1}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1. Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Bontu the Glorified (akh) 82
Warren Soultrader

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.")

Creature
Warren Soultrader (mh3) 332
Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Haste Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Yahenni. Sacrifice another creature: Yahenni gains indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Yahenni, Undying Partisan (lcc) 214

Sac Outlet

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Sorcery

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Let's Play a Game

Delirium — Choose one. If there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, choose one or more instead. • Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn. • Each opponent discards two cards. • Each opponent loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.

Sorcery
Let's Play a Game (dsk) 105

Sorcery

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Stax

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Cursed Totem

Activated abilities of creatures can't be activated.

Artifact
Cursed Totem (mh2) 295
Damping Matrix

Activated abilities of artifacts and creatures can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.

Artifact
Damping Matrix (mm3) 218
Winter Moon

Players can't untap more than one nonbasic land during their untap steps.

Artifact
Winter Moon (mh3) 213

Stax

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Tokens

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Scavenger's Talent

(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.) Whenever one or more creatures you control die, create a Food token. This ability triggers only once each turn. {1}{B}: Level 2 Whenever you sacrifice a permanent, target player mills two cards. {2}{B}: Level 3 At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice three other nonland permanents. If you do, return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it.

Enchantment
Scavenger's Talent (blb) 111

Tokens

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Tutor

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Dimir Machinations

Look at the top three cards of target player's library. Exile any number of those cards, then put the rest back in any order. Transmute {1}{B}{B} ({1}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Sorcery
Dimir Machinations (rav) 84
Insatiable Avarice

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {2} — Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. + {B}{B} — Target player draws three cards and loses 3 life.

Sorcery
Insatiable Avarice (otj) 91

Tutor

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Sideboard

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Demon's Horn

Whenever a player casts a black spell, you may gain 1 life.

Artifact
Demon's Horn (dvd) 57
Demonlord Belzenlok

Flying, trample When Demonlord Belzenlok enters, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card, then put that card into your hand. If the card's mana value is 4 or greater, repeat this process. Demonlord Belzenlok deals 1 damage to you for each card put into your hand this way.

Creature
Demonlord Belzenlok (cmm) 151
Duress

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Sorcery
Duress (one) 92
Fell Specter

Flying When this creature enters, target opponent discards a card. Whenever an opponent discards a card, that player loses 2 life.

Creature
Fell Specter (plst) M19-96
Make Obsolete

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.

Instant
Make Obsolete (kld) 89
Mephitic Vapors

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn. 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.)

Sorcery
Mephitic Vapors (rvr) 85
Nasty End

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards. If the sacrificed creature was legendary, draw three cards instead.

Instant
Nasty End (ltr) 416
Revenge of the Rats

Create a tapped 1/1 black Rat creature token for each creature card in your graveyard. Flashback {2}{B}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Revenge of the Rats (fdn) 67
Screeching Buzzard

Flying When this creature dies, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Screeching Buzzard (bbd) 158
Smog Elemental

Flying Creatures with flying your opponents control get -1/-1.

Creature
Smog Elemental (gtc) 79
Spectral Snatcher

Ward—Discard a card. (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player discards a card.) Swampcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Creature
Spectral Snatcher (dsk) 116
Tendrils of Corruption

Tendrils of Corruption deals X damage to target creature and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Instant
Tendrils of Corruption (tsr) 145
Thoughtpicker Witch

{1}, Sacrifice a creature: Look at the top two cards of target opponent's library, then exile one of them.

Creature
Thoughtpicker Witch (rav) 109
Village Rites

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

Instant
Village Rites (inr) 137

Sideboard

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