CommanderTestLabor DE
Price
€398.99of €400.00
Overall win rate
22%9 wins in 40 scored games
Games
40played in 4 tournaments
Rank
26in the rankings up to €400 · Elo 1516 (start 1500)
Cards
100incl. commander · 34 lands, 17 of them basic
Game Changer
0of at most 3 allowed
Combos
8complete in the deck
Rules check
Passed100 cards, colors, banlist

AI note: the Forge AI can't play 7 cards of this deck (replaced with similar cards in the Forge games) and plays 5 more only partially well. This result is therefore somewhat less meaningful. Affected cards

At most €400 including the commander. If prices rise above that, the shopping list is rebuilt automatically.

grey: role in the deckGame Changer counts for the bracketCombo part of a comboAI can't play replaced in tournamentsAI limited played weakly by the AI

Commander (1)

Creatures (41)

Instants (6)

Sorceries (7)

Artifacts (8)

Enchantments (3)

Lands (34)

Meren of Clan Nel Toth
Card image: © Wizards of the Coast, via Scryfall

Combos in the deck (8)

Detected from the decklist (Commander Spellbook): theoretically possible, see Spellbook for requirements. Whether a combo actually came together in games is shown above under “What the games show”.

  • Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + … → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    7 versions, each with one of: Phyrexian Altar · Gravecrawler · Ashnod's Altar · Carrion Feeder · Viscera Seer · Altar of Dementia and 1 more
  • Pitiless Plunderer + Gravecrawler + … → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature LTB
    7 versions, each with one of: Ashnod's Altar · Reassembling Skeleton · Phyrexian Altar · Viscera Seer · Carrion Feeder · Umbral Collar Zealot and 1 more
  • Warren Soultrader + Gravecrawler + … → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite death triggers, Infinite lifegain triggers
    4 versions, each with one of: Blood Artist · Zulaport Cutthroat · Moldervine Reclamation · Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • Reassembling Skeleton + Pitiless Plunderer + Open the Graves + … → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite death triggers
    4 versions, each with one of: Viscera Seer · Carrion Feeder · Umbral Collar Zealot · Altar of Dementia
  • Warren Soultrader + Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + … → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
    3 versions, each with one of: Blood Artist · Zulaport Cutthroat · Moldervine Reclamation
  • Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Open the Graves + … → Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite creature ETB
    3 versions, each with one of: Blood Artist · Zulaport Cutthroat · Moldervine Reclamation
  • Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + … → Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite death triggers
    2 versions, each with one of: Gray Merchant of Asphodel · Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • Living Death + Eternal Witness + Phyrexian Altar → Infinite blinking, Infinite colored mana, Infinite death triggers

Commander Spellbook lists 31 entries because every version counts separately (for example with a different sacrifice outlet). Here each combo counts once.

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  • Gravecrawler + Phyrexian Altar → Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
  • Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar + Reassembling Skeleton → Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Warren Soultrader + Gravecrawler + Blood Artist → Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifegain triggers
  • Warren Soultrader + Gravecrawler + Zulaport Cutthroat → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Phyrexian Altar → Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
  • Gravecrawler + Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar → Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Warren Soultrader + Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Blood Artist → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Warren Soultrader + Pitiless Plunderer + Zulaport Cutthroat + Reassembling Skeleton → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Gravecrawler + Pitiless Plunderer + Viscera Seer → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Gravecrawler + Pitiless Plunderer + Carrion Feeder → Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Gray Merchant of Asphodel → Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite death triggers
  • Gravecrawler + Pitiless Plunderer + Umbral Collar Zealot → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Gravecrawler + Pitiless Plunderer + Altar of Dementia → Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
  • Living Death + Eternal Witness + Phyrexian Altar → Infinite blinking, Infinite colored mana, Infinite death triggers
  • Kokusho, the Evening Star + Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Yawgmoth, Thran Physician → Infinite card draw, Near-infinite lifegain, Near-infinite lifeloss
  • Viscera Seer + Reassembling Skeleton + Pitiless Plunderer + Open the Graves → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite death triggers
  • Warren Soultrader + Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Moldervine Reclamation → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Reassembling Skeleton + Carrion Feeder + Pitiless Plunderer + Open the Graves → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Warren Soultrader + Gravecrawler + Moldervine Reclamation → Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite Treasure tokens
  • Umbral Collar Zealot + Reassembling Skeleton + Pitiless Plunderer + Open the Graves → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Altar of Dementia + Reassembling Skeleton + Pitiless Plunderer + Open the Graves → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite death triggers
  • Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Ashnod's Altar → Infinite colorless mana, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
  • Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Phyrexian Altar → Infinite colored mana, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
  • Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Carrion Feeder → Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
  • Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Viscera Seer → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Altar of Dementia → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Warren Soultrader + Blood Artist → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Umbral Collar Zealot → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Blood Artist + Open the Graves → Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite creature ETB
  • Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Zulaport Cutthroat + Open the Graves → Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite creature ETB
  • Yawgmoth, Thran Physician + Moldervine Reclamation + Open the Graves → Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite creature ETB

Adjusted for the Forge AI

The list above is the best tested version, the way you would play it in real games. The Forge AI can't play a few cards – they were replaced in the tournament (the deck builder also rearranges other slots within the budget). The win rate comes from games with these replacements; the original cards themselves were not tested by the AI.

In the list (original cards)
  • Altar of Dementia: AI can't play it
  • Beast Within: AI can't play it
  • Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Diabolic Intent: AI can't play it
  • Kokusho, the Evening Star: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Phyrexian Tower: AI can't play it
  • Toxic Deluge: AI can't play it
  • Twilight Mire: AI can't play it
  • Viscera Seer: AI can't play it
Played instead in the tournament
  • Butcher of Malakir: replacement
  • Cauldron of Essence: replacement
  • Demonic Tutor: replacement
  • Golgari Charm: replacement
  • Golgari Germination: replacement
  • Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth: replacement
  • Woe Strider: replacement

What the games show

From 40 analysed games in 4 tournaments (tournament lists as played by Forge). Games that hit the time limit don't count, just like in the rankings. Values in brackets: average of all decks in the same price class. “logged”: recorded in the game log. “indication”: recurring pattern, but no proof of cause and effect.

Play style: wins through combat – 76% of the damage to opponents is combat damage

Strengths

  • Often wins by combo: in 3 of 9 wins all pieces of a combo were in play indication
  • Stable mana: fewer than 3 lands after turn 3 in only 5% of games (all-deck avg: 10%) logged (2 of 40 games)

Weaknesses

  • Slow to win: wins on average only on its 13th own turn (all-deck avg: 12th) logged (9 wins)
  • Often eliminated first: in 35% of games (all-deck avg: 25%) logged (14 of 40 games)
  • Little pressure: only avg 23 damage to opponents per game (all-deck avg: 28) logged (40 games)
  • Rarely eliminates opponents: 0.45 per game on average (all-deck avg: 0.62) logged (40 games)

Damage per game all games

Total damage to opponents ÷ all 40 games – what the card contributes over the whole test

  1. Syr Konrad, the Grim avg 5.8hit in 10 of 40 games
  2. Butcher of Malakir avg 2.7hit in 9 of 40 games
  3. Mikaeus, the Unhallowed avg 2.0hit in 8 of 40 games

Damage when used when it hits

Total damage ÷ games in which the card dealt damage – its strength when used

  1. Syr Konrad, the Grim avg 23.0hit in 10 of 40 games
  2. Carrion Feeder avg 13.8hit in 5 of 40 games
  3. Massacre Wurm avg 12.6hit in 5 of 40 games

Top finishers eliminates opponents

Cards that most often knocked an opposing commander out of the game

  1. Butcher of Malakir 4×40 games in deck
  2. Syr Konrad, the Grim 4×40 games in deck
  3. Mikaeus, the Unhallowed 3×40 games in deck

Best interaction answers threats

Opposing cards destroyed, exiled, bounced or countered when this card resolved (tokens excluded)

  1. Butcher of Malakir 48×avg 1.2 per game · 40 games in deck
  2. Living Death 43×avg 1.1 per game · 40 games in deck
  3. Accursed Marauder 23×avg 0.6 per game · 40 games in deck

Biggest walls blocks the most

Opposing cards that blocked this deck's attackers most often – 17% of 277 attackers blocked in total, 9% of those by flyers or reach

Not enough blocks logged yet.

Rarely cast candidates to cut

Cards in this list that were cast least often in their games – often too expensive or too slow (lands excluded)

  1. Birthing Pod 5%cast in 2 of 40 games
  2. Buried Alive 5%cast in 2 of 40 games
  3. Grim Haruspex 5%cast in 2 of 40 games

Wins by turn speed

On which own turn the 9 wins came

  • by turn 70%
  • turns 8–911%
  • turns 10–1133%
  • turns 12–130%
  • turn 14+56%

Combos in play logged Gravecrawler + Phyrexian Altar: all pieces cast in 3 games, 1 won · Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar + Reassembling Skeleton: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won · Warren Soultrader + Gravecrawler + Blood Artist: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won · Warren Soultrader + Gravecrawler + Zulaport Cutthroat: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won

Mana curve without lands

Average 2.74

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16
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6
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7+

Roles in the deck

Ramp
12 / 11
Card draw
9 / 9
Removal
12 / 12
Board wipe
3 / 3
Protection
2 / 2
Strategy
27 cards no target

Count / target from the EDHREC average deck (the line), red means clearly below. Strategy: the remaining cards without one of these roles, such as the creatures and effects the deck is built around. 65 non-land cards in total.

Card types

Creatures
41
Instants
6
Sorceries
7
Artifacts
8
Enchantments
3
Lands
34

Most expensive cards

Phyrexian Altar
€35.94
Phyrexian Tower
€29.22
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
€27.56
Verdant Catacombs
€24.12
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
€22.26
Underground Mortuary
€15.67
Warren Soultrader
€15.00
Kokusho, the Evening Star
€14.85

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Placement in every tournament

Oldest on the left. Green: top 3, blue: top 10.

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Best place 16 · average place 31.5 · 0× top 3 · 0× top 10 out of 4 tournaments

Played by the Forge AI, four players per game. An average deck wins 25%. How are decks tested?