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Death Toll

Commander precon · Duskmourn: House of Horror Commander · 2024 · led by Winter, Cynical Opportunist

Main theme: Mill · Synergy 2.7/5 (developing) · Bracket 1–2 · Winter, Cynical Opportunist works with 28 of its cards

Upgrades at bracket 1–2

No Game Changers and no infinite combos: the level of an unchanged precon. Game Changers are cards on WotC's official list of cards that make a deck much stronger.

8 swaps, and after them the report reads the deck at bracket 1–2.

Its cards work together a little more: synergy 2.7 → 2.8 of 5, still developing. It is a little more consistent: Build 4.7 → 4.8 of 5, still on target; no longer short on interaction. That is what this page measures: how well the deck holds together, not how strong it is.

Lands

  1. Take out Golgari Rot Farm: Golgari Rot Farm enters tapped. Put in Bayou: Bayou never enters tapped and makes black or green.
  2. Take out Jungle Hollow: Jungle Hollow enters tapped. Put in Overgrown Tomb: Overgrown Tomb never enters tapped and makes black or green.
  3. Take out Necroblossom Snarl: Necroblossom Snarl enters tapped. Put in Undergrowth Stadium: Undergrowth Stadium never enters tapped and makes black or green.
  4. Take out Temple of Malady: Temple of Malady enters tapped. Put in Blooming Marsh: Blooming Marsh enters tapped less often and makes black or green.

Interaction

  1. Take out Inscription of Abundance: Inscription of Abundance is next on the report's cut list. It works with other cards only once, when it is played: with Professor Onyx. Put in Come Back Wrong: Interaction: you were 1 short; Come Back Wrong counts as interaction. Come Back Wrong puts cards into the graveyard that Deadbridge Chant can bring back.

Cards that work together

  1. Take out Arachnogenesis: Arachnogenesis works with 3 cards in this deck, none of them on its theme; Canoptek Spyder works with 3 cards, 1 of them on it, and with your commander. Put in Canoptek Spyder: Whip of Erebos gives Canoptek Spyder lifelink
  2. Take out Demolisher Spawn: Demolisher Spawn works with 1 card in this deck, none of it on its theme; Campsite Cuisine works with 5 cards, none of them on it, and with your commander. Put in Campsite Cuisine: Campsite Cuisine puts cards into the graveyard that Deadbridge Chant can bring back
  3. Take out Rendmaw, Creaking Nest: Rendmaw, Creaking Nest works with 10 cards in this deck, 7 of them on its theme; Dawn-Blessed Pennant works with 26 cards, none of them on it. Put in Dawn-Blessed Pennant: When Dawn-Blessed Pennant is in the graveyard, Deadbridge Chant can bring it back

Upgrades at bracket 3

Up to three Game Changers, and no two-card infinite combo that costs 6 or less.

11 swaps, and after them the report reads the deck at bracket 3.

Its cards work together a little more: synergy 2.7 → 2.8 of 5, still developing. It is a little more consistent: Build 4.7 → 4.8 of 5, still on target; no longer short on interaction. That is what this page measures: how well the deck holds together, not how strong it is.

Lands

  1. Take out Golgari Rot Farm: Golgari Rot Farm enters tapped. Put in Bayou: Bayou never enters tapped and makes black or green.
  2. Take out Jungle Hollow: Jungle Hollow enters tapped. Put in Overgrown Tomb: Overgrown Tomb never enters tapped and makes black or green.
  3. Take out Necroblossom Snarl: Necroblossom Snarl enters tapped. Put in Undergrowth Stadium: Undergrowth Stadium never enters tapped and makes black or green.
  4. Take out Temple of Malady: Temple of Malady enters tapped. Put in Blooming Marsh: Blooming Marsh enters tapped less often and makes black or green.

Ramp

  1. Take out Arcane Signet: Arcane Signet is weaker ramp than Chrome Mox. Put in Chrome Mox: Chrome Mox is ramp too, and one of the strongest cards in Commander: a Game Changer, which this bracket allows.
  2. Take out Golgari Signet: Golgari Signet is weaker ramp than Mana Vault. Put in Mana Vault: Mana Vault is ramp too, and one of the strongest cards in Commander: a Game Changer, which this bracket allows.
  3. Take out Talisman of Resilience: Talisman of Resilience is weaker ramp than Mox Diamond. Put in Mox Diamond: Mox Diamond is ramp too, and one of the strongest cards in Commander: a Game Changer, which this bracket allows.

Interaction

  1. Take out Inscription of Abundance: Inscription of Abundance is next on the report's cut list. It works with other cards only once, when it is played: with Professor Onyx. Put in Come Back Wrong: Interaction: you were 1 short; Come Back Wrong counts as interaction. Come Back Wrong puts cards into the graveyard that Deadbridge Chant can bring back.

Cards that work together

  1. Take out Arachnogenesis: Arachnogenesis works with 3 cards in this deck, none of them on its theme; Canoptek Spyder works with 3 cards, 1 of them on it, and with your commander. Put in Canoptek Spyder: Whip of Erebos gives Canoptek Spyder lifelink
  2. Take out Demolisher Spawn: Demolisher Spawn works with 1 card in this deck, none of it on its theme; Campsite Cuisine works with 5 cards, none of them on it, and with your commander. Put in Campsite Cuisine: Campsite Cuisine puts cards into the graveyard that Deadbridge Chant can bring back
  3. Take out Rendmaw, Creaking Nest: Rendmaw, Creaking Nest works with 10 cards in this deck, 7 of them on its theme; Dawn-Blessed Pennant works with 26 cards, none of them on it. Put in Dawn-Blessed Pennant: When Dawn-Blessed Pennant is in the graveyard, Deadbridge Chant can bring it back

Upgrades at bracket 4–5

No limits on Game Changers or combos.

12 swaps, and after them the report reads the deck at bracket 4–5.

Its cards work together a little more: synergy 2.7 → 2.8 of 5, still developing. It is a little more consistent: Build 4.7 → 4.8 of 5, still on target; no longer short on interaction. That is what this page measures: how well the deck holds together, not how strong it is.

Lands

  1. Take out Golgari Rot Farm: Golgari Rot Farm enters tapped. Put in Bayou: Bayou never enters tapped and makes black or green.
  2. Take out Jungle Hollow: Jungle Hollow enters tapped. Put in Overgrown Tomb: Overgrown Tomb never enters tapped and makes black or green.
  3. Take out Necroblossom Snarl: Necroblossom Snarl enters tapped. Put in Undergrowth Stadium: Undergrowth Stadium never enters tapped and makes black or green.
  4. Take out Temple of Malady: Temple of Malady enters tapped. Put in Blooming Marsh: Blooming Marsh enters tapped less often and makes black or green.

Ramp

  1. Take out Arcane Signet: Arcane Signet is weaker ramp than Chrome Mox. Put in Chrome Mox: Chrome Mox is ramp too, and one of the strongest cards in Commander: a Game Changer, which this bracket allows.
  2. Take out Golgari Signet: Golgari Signet is weaker ramp than Mana Vault. Put in Mana Vault: Mana Vault is ramp too, and one of the strongest cards in Commander: a Game Changer, which this bracket allows.
  3. Take out Talisman of Resilience: Talisman of Resilience is weaker ramp than Mox Diamond. Put in Mox Diamond: Mox Diamond is ramp too, and one of the strongest cards in Commander: a Game Changer, which this bracket allows.

Card advantage

  1. Take out Harmonize: Harmonize is weaker card draw than The One Ring. Put in The One Ring: The One Ring is card draw too, and one of the strongest cards in Commander: a Game Changer, which this bracket allows.

Interaction

  1. Take out Inscription of Abundance: Inscription of Abundance is next on the report's cut list. It works with other cards only once, when it is played: with Professor Onyx. Put in Come Back Wrong: Interaction: you were 1 short; Come Back Wrong counts as interaction. Come Back Wrong puts cards into the graveyard that Deadbridge Chant can bring back.

Cards that work together

  1. Take out Arachnogenesis: Arachnogenesis works with 3 cards in this deck, none of them on its theme; Canoptek Spyder works with 3 cards, 1 of them on it, and with your commander. Put in Canoptek Spyder: Whip of Erebos gives Canoptek Spyder lifelink
  2. Take out Demolisher Spawn: Demolisher Spawn works with 1 card in this deck, none of it on its theme; Campsite Cuisine works with 5 cards, none of them on it, and with your commander. Put in Campsite Cuisine: Campsite Cuisine puts cards into the graveyard that Deadbridge Chant can bring back
  3. Take out Rendmaw, Creaking Nest: Rendmaw, Creaking Nest works with 10 cards in this deck, 7 of them on its theme; Dawn-Blessed Pennant works with 26 cards, none of them on it. Put in Dawn-Blessed Pennant: When Dawn-Blessed Pennant is in the graveyard, Deadbridge Chant can bring it back

Opens a route: Feign Death. 10 of its cards reach Ishkanah, Grafwidow through it.

Also short, against a typical Commander deck: interaction 11 of 12.

The decklist

Creatures

Burnished Hart · Carrion Grub · Deathcap Cultivator · Demolisher Spawn · Giant Adephage · Gnarlwood Dryad · Grim Flayer · Haywire Mite · Hornet Queen · Ishkanah, Grafwidow · Moldgraf Millipede · Moldgraf Monstrosity · Noxious Gearhulk · Nyx Weaver · Obsessive Skinner · Old Stickfingers · Rendmaw, Creaking Nest · Sakura-Tribe Elder · Scavenging Ooze · Skola Grovedancer · Solemn Simulacrum · Stitcher's Supplier · Suspicious Bookcase · Titania, Nature's Force · Ursine Monstrosity · Vile Mutilator

Planeswalkers

Grist, the Hunger Tide · Ob Nixilis Reignited · Professor Onyx · Wrenn and Seven

Instants and sorceries

Arachnogenesis · Convert to Slime · Culling Ritual · Deluge of Doom · Formless Genesis · Grapple with the Past · Grisly Salvage · Harmonize · Harrow · Inscription of Abundance · Mulch · Night's Whisper · Putrefy · Rampant Growth · Reanimate

Artifacts and enchantments

Arcane Signet · Binding the Old Gods · Cemetery Tampering · Commander's Sphere · Crawling Sensation · Deadbridge Chant · Deathreap Ritual · Demonic Covenant · Golgari Signet · Into the Pit · Mind Stone · Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette · Sol Ring · Talisman of Resilience · Whip of Erebos · Whispersilk Cloak

Lands

Ash Barrens · Barren Moor · Bojuka Bog · Command Tower · Darkmoss Bridge · Dryad Arbor · Evolving Wilds · Exotic Orchard · 7 Forest · Golgari Rot Farm · Grim Backwoods · Jungle Hollow · Llanowar Wastes · Necroblossom Snarl · Reliquary Tower · 7 Swamp · Tainted Wood · Temple of Malady · Temple of the False God · Terramorphic Expanse · Tranquil Thicket · Tree of Tales · Twilight Mire · Vault of Whispers · Viridescent Bog · Woodland Cemetery

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