I run a k'rrik in a cedh deck. It's currently sitting around the 800 dollar mark and honestly this deck probably only runs about 3 or 4 turns behind mine...at a literal fraction of the cost. Great deck tech, and for anyone watching thinking about building, do it. And this deck would be very easy to convert into an entry level comp deck with a few extra combo peices (some involving Gary)
@@FireBlizzard24601 Krrik is a absolut banger deck. important is that you build it to win in several diffrent angels. first you have the combos than the citadel, mergent, etc. and also the creatures and drain. also i play about 15 tutors and 12 artifacts. its possible to win on turn 2 but more regularly 3-4. its a banger also with all the variants to win.
It really is. Last night I was playing this deck and at one point I had k'rrik and vilis out and realized with sign in blood I could pay 6 life to draw 8 cards lol it's crazy, if you do it right you'll draw at least 1 or 2 cards every time you play something
@@JohnDoe-df7bl It is banned, which is pretty stupid imo. With all of the cards available in commander and all of the ways to just win a game with one little combo I feel like banning cards in commander is just nonsensical.
turn 1 kill : swamp cast dark ritual (3 mana) cast sol ring (4 mana) cast kirik (take 6 down to 34) cast blood celebrant (take 2 down to 32) float 9 mana (take 27 down to 5) cast repay in kind (5 mana plus 2 phyrexian)(take 4 down to 1) cast blood tithe 🍻
I pulled this off once! The chances of the perfect hand are low, but it does feel good to kill everyone on your first turn. I do get a lot more hate now though....
I love dread shade and blood tracker in K’rrik. You can just feed them as much life as you want and they just keep growing and if you have Vilis, you just draw forever, they’re amazing.
Marco Curvello Leshrac’s Sigil has an activated ability for 2 black mana to return it to your hand. It cost 2 black mana to cast. With K’rrik on the battlefield, both of these can be paid with life instead of mana. If you have Aetherflux Reservoir on the battlefield, you can loop casting the Sigil, then bouncing it using K’rrik’s ability and repeating, eventually gaining infinite life to then kill your opponents with the Reservoir.
This is my favorite deck that I've seen from this channel. New Phyrexia was the expansion that got me into magic, so I'm elated to find a use for phyrexian Mana that isn't banned.
@@royalcollectables I was planning on buying like 10 when he was like $1.50 but I used the money to buy a urborg instead...I regret my decision and it was funny cause I thought it would go up
Lifelink only works with combat damage. Vampiric Link combined with Pestilence Demon can be ruthless and possible win con if Exquisite Blood and Sanguine Bond are both on the field because it applies to any damage.
@@theotherguy4478 702.15b. Damage dealt by a source with lifelink causes that source's controller, or its owner if it has no controller, to gain that much life (in addition to any other results that damage causes).
This is an interesting idea which then means you could theoritically run more "value" creatures that only require black mana to cast and run all the available enchantments and potentially artifacts that provide lifelink where then Pestilence Demon becomes an activated EXTORT ability and if you can have Lifelink and Vampiric Link on it at the same time it's a win con as long as your not 1v1 at this point. However, this only works with Pestilence Demon which means you need enough creatures that only require black mana to cast to make the lifelink enchantments and such worth running. And because Black doesn't really have that same type of enchantment that White does for a creature that causes life gain to gain a +1/+1 counter you can't use Walking Ballista nor Triskelion so it would be an interesting build in just that your giving things lifelink that you were able to put into play.
I started watching this thinking, "WTF is going on here? You're gonna die easy!". Then I got to the main parts and thought, "Well, that's quite cruel."
Oh my gosh I have been waiting for this and I was so happy to see this in my feed. Love this channel and always will be one of my favorit MTG channels. Keep doing what you doing and never stop
Bought this Finally! I love this deck concept! Its hard that within the hour of your video releasing the price jumps from the budget price. Its just the world we live in. Thank you for the amazing content!
Exactly what I needed in my life. A krrik deck that will kill me easily. I might need to build this Edit: wait why is fellwar stone in the deck and not Vilis Broker of Blood?!
Arne Röcke yes, but fellwar stone is $3 while vilis is $4, vilis let’s you combo off, fellwar stone is useless in the deck, so I’m sure you could scrape up an extra dollar.
Some of my friends are fairly new to Magic, and willingly throw away their creatures to keep their life high. I should play this deck as a lesson, to teach them that the life total is as much a resource as your lands, or your hand.
It just sucks when your getting beat in the face by everyone at the table when there is someone actually using their life as a resource and that player is untouched.
I just wanna make sure yall apreciate what this man does for us. I'm building a commander deck with this guy and mine is gonna take EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS. Of course, mine is a control deck all about being a self combo between using the blood combo and pestilence/exort/stronghold overseer and using k'rrik to cast it all as quickly as possible, but still. $50 bucks. Thats a steal.
Pestilence Demon is only good if your running Lifelink enchants/equipments and Vampiric Link. Overseer is terrible and the Ravenous Chupacabra is better though it's literally better to just run the instant and sorcery spells. Just sounds to me like you spent money during the "hype" so your deck i'm sure would cost less to build today than it did when you made this comment and it seems your also using cards that you may not had needed.
As a new magic player I rly love your content because it helps me so much with affording decks to start my magic journey. I wish I would there would be an updated list because I don’t know what happened the last three years in terms of new cards or affordable upgrades for this deck. But anyway thanks for the awesome content!
I have a very similar deck. It's really powerful. The big downside is that everyone knows how strong Krri'k is so I get targeted a lot, but when I don't it's super fun.
Thanks for sharing this. I saw this commander and wanted to make a cheap deck and you just so happen to make it. I used your link and got everything. I love the idea of it
yes and no. If you are making use of Oathsworn Vampire then i'd say yes. Otherwise the 3 mana investment is too much and you have to remember that K'rrik doesn't do "card advantage" that well so your literally better off with Pristine Talismen.
If you're playing this deck running Sanguine Bond, be on the lookout for the card Exquisite Blood. It can be a little pricey but it combos with Bond to win you the game.
I run Gary with cards to reoccur him such as Kayas ghost form. Wake the dead. Doomed necromancer and whip of erebos. Can easily drain 40+ life in a single interaction with a proper sac outlet
I agree, Gary should had been the "Golden Pig" of the deck and there's enough reanimation cards Mitch could had used to lean more on using Gary. Repay in Kind is a neat card that K'rrk can actually minipulate but it's easier to stop and interact with opposed to the myriad of reanimation cards in the game. There are also other creatures that can be made use of that benifit from this strat if you lose Gary and black is one of the colors that likes to discard cards so there's a work=around if you don't have Buried Alive nor Entomb. Just remember there are 2 artifacts that also provde "discard a card".
i've discovered that you'd rather K'rrk get sent to the command zone and just focus on "mana ramp". Kaya's Ghostform is not a terrible idea only because it synergizes. And there are other cards that do not actually provide indestructble you can run if you feel you need those effects. Just do not run "Undying Evil".
I started off with the $50 deck and recently bought cards to fully kit it out to about $125ish. It’s brutal and pulls wins out of nowhere. It’s my current favourite deck and is slowly replacing my Slivers as my main deck.
sensei's divining top should be mentioned in upgrades next to doomlaser. If you have those two and bolas' citadel, that's a pseudo-infinite life/laser combo. keep replaying the top for 1 life and gain increasing life each time.
Neat, User Villis's ability to draw 4 cards, use Skirge's ability to discard a card activating Faith of the Devoted and using that generated black mana to drain everyone as you gain back the life you lost. So you end up stabilized at a life point while draining your opponents as long as you have cards you can draw. I give this win con a jank score of 40%, find another use for "faith of the Devoted".
@@MageSkeleton Shadow of the Grave combined with every B:Cycle card gives another chunk of juice. It is not the primary WinCon but it will strip an easy 20 from ppl.
Two suggestions : Withering Wisps and Null Profusion. Withering Wisps is essentially a cheaper Pestilence provided you play snow-covered swamps. Null Profusion is an insane card drawing engine. Sure, you can only have two cards in hand a EoT, but given that you're already spewing out your hand with K'rrik, it's hardly an issue. Also, if you add a Reliquary Tower to the mix, the drawback becomes inconsequential. A card that sees little play but that really finds its rightful place here.
Withering Wisps and Pestillence are not really played because they are enchantments and people run Pestilence Demon because with Lifelink and Vampiric Link it becomes a win con. i thought of Null Profusion as well but the problem is getting around the maximum hand size restriction, paying that 6 generic mana, and still having things you can "play" because once you have no cards in hand and this enchantment on field your turn becomes "do i attack or not" and if anyone removes anything off your field sending to graveyard or exile your basically out of the game.
Last night I piloted a zombie tribal variant of K'rrik. Let me tell you: Disturbed Burial (with Buyback) is one of the most broken budget cards around, and I can't believe it's not in this deck tech. Being able to cycle sacrifice and recursion on Fleshbag Marauder, Sidisi, Death's Vizier, Gravedigger, and Gary is insane. Make your opponents sac their hexproof and indestructible creatures while tutoring your best cards and draining them with your board over, and over, and over....
I started making a K'rrik deck last night that uses Endrek Sahr and Ashnod's Altar to generate lots of colorless mana and drain them out with Zulaport cutthroat effects.
What creature are you "Casting into play" to generate these creatures? Anceint Stone Idol? That would be neat if Crashing Drawbrige (Throne of Eldraine) was available at this time, neat budget win con. Ashnods Altar is about $5, Anceint Stone Idol is a 20c card, Endrek Sahr is about $2, Crashing Drawbridge is a 20c card. So you first need Endrek Sahr in play, then you cast Anceint Stone Idol which gets you 4 Black Thrull creature tokens, then Anceint Stone Idol bounces back to your hand. Then you use Ashnod's Altar to sacrifice 2 Black Thrulls and recast Anceint Stone Idol netting plus 2 each time. I don't know of any alternatives to any of these peices so i give this combo a 100% fragile score. If you want a better way of Infinate mana, you will actually need access to your graveyard where that other combo doesn't need the graveyard. First you need Ashnod's Altar, then you need Ebon Hold Initiate, Carrian Feeder or other Zombie Creature with "Sacrifice a creature" (as of this comment there are 5 including Carrian Feeder) and either Gravecrawler or Oathsorn Vampire with Jet Medallion or Bontu's Monument or Helm of Awakening in play. Just remember that Ebonhold Initiate dies after you filter more than certain mana through him at end of turn.
Funnily, this kind of idea is something I've done with fellas like Vona the Butcher or Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim. Also, I have an Oloro deck based around cards like Axis of Mortality to swap life totals and cause mayhem on the table
yeah got that fun little combo in as well, just havent gotten to cast it yet. A fun "variant" for the Rush of Vitality is Eternal Thirst - also gives the Demon lifelink, but instead of flat out indestructible it makes it grow for everything that dies (which can be quite deadly in a somewhat creature-heavy board/meta if and when you also get to swing with the Demon). Rush of Vitality is probably better, but thought I'd mention the other one as well :-)
Nice value strat but it still leaves you open to getting wiped by the time you get that setup. No mention of Isocron Scepter? In MY OPINION you should ONLY run Pestilence Demon if your already running most every way to provide Lifelink and Vampiric Link. While Rush of Vitality provides Lifelink, the reason you run that card is because of the Indestructible until end of turn, and as of this comment there are 4 of those now. Unless you are using Helm of Awakening or Jet Medallion, however, your better off using the alternatives such as "Demonic Vigor" and "Malakir Rebirth" (Zendikar Rising) and DO NOT USE "Undying Evil" on K'rrk.
Just discorvered a hidden gem from born of the gods that would go great in this and maybe a new quest for quarters episode but its called sanguimancy. It draws cards and loses life equal to your devotion to black for 4 and a black and in this deck that devotion could be any number but almost never low.
This is why i decided to go through the comments section. Sanguimancy is a great idea especially if somehow you have Jet Medallion and/or Helm of Awakening to reduce it's casting cost.
with all the incidental life gain and running sanguine bond, Exquisite Blood should also be considered, although it is $25. This is due to the vast amount of incidental life gain that you could loop with Sanguine Bond to to just drain everyone out.
Hey Commander's Quarters, great video I'm a big fan of the channel. You've really helped with my deck building skills. I had an idea for a deck tech, what about a Kenrith, the Returned King tech? You could go five color humans or find a way to abuse his abilities, especially the reanimation ability.
This is really awesome and I happen to have a lot of these cards, but my playgroup would murder me if I put this together! Would love to see a Korvold deck, think it might pose some good challenges for you.
It would be more feasable with Vito, the Dusk Rose which is a new Legendary creature long after when this video was made. K'rrk doesn't have enough life gain unless you somehow get Zulaport or Blood Artist enchanted or equiped with lifelink which is too much expendeture.
Mitch, I don't know how I feel about making "Repay in Kind" the Golden Pig, this deck has so much life gain in it; than adding aetherflux reservoir as another contradictory win con at the very end? This deck seems less "focused" than usual. The phrase "we're going to gain so much life" doesn't mesh well with Repay in Kind unless we also have a black mana dumps to get back down low instead of one spell at a time.
There are a few cards that let you drop your life fast, with the commanders ability the cards that let you, pay 3 life to get a mana, pay 4 life to draw a card and the pay 2 life to deal everything 1 damage. also with citidel you can pay life as CMC to cast, so there are a few ways. You are also consistently paying life so I imagine you are usually not gaining that much once its all said and done.
@@agafaba Please get it right, when you pay 2 life to pay the cost of Pestillence or Pestillence Demon you are losing 3 life each time (1 of the 3 being damage) so unless you have Glacial Chasm in play your effectively paying 3 life to do 1 damage to each creature and opponent.
@@MageSkeleton you only pay two life though, I did say to everything, and you are included in everything. Minor correction though, pay two life to deal 1 damage to everything in your current game of magic, no nearby players in other games are affected.
@@MageSkeleton also it isn't to each opponent, it would be pay 3 to deal one to each other player. The distinction is small but matters for team games.
...now I feel like an idiot for missing Soul Conduit when building my K'rrik deck (which is inspired by your quick take from a while ago, so thanks for that as well!). Probably even better in my take on it than this one, because I happened to have a decent chunk of the Monoblack Ramp package lying around in an old mothballed 60 card deck (things like Nirkana Revenant, Crypt Ghast, Cabal Coffers, Magus of the Coffers and a Gauntlet of Power for good measure), so getting to 12 mana isnt actually all that hard for my deck. With those I kinda run a side-theme of generic "it's big and it's black and it's good and it kills you", not nearly as focused on the draining/combo aspect as yours is but with a bit more variety and options. Very fun and powerful commander for sure - before the first game I played with it, a friend of mine kind of dismissed it as a semi-good deck at first glance, and it proceeded to prove him wrong very thoroughly :-)
I run my version of this deck with a demons theme around lilianas contract. Devotion and spells with 3-4 pure swamp costs. Kykthos taps for a flood of mana. Grave crawler and Gisa combo to make endless zombies each turn. Gary and abhorrent overlord can be win cons alone. As is Sorin markov A cheap interaction I had fun with was pestilence demon. Loxodon warhammer. And overseer of the damned. Each untap step I would trigger 4x and now down a handful of creatures and make more zombies
What is "Kykthos?" Ghoulcaller Gisa has to tap to cause that effect, so she's too slow and would need haste to "turn on". Abhorrent Overlord rewards you for having devotion to black and gives you alot of creatures yes, but that's all it does. Gary doesn't interact with tokens at all because tokens have devotion 0. Sorin Markov is a "fixer" and a nice option. Pestilence Demon can be given Lifelink through many ways, and with Vampiric Link it turns into a win con. Overseer of the Damned is a neat demon also, but tokens only win games when you have haste. Crashing Drawbridge (Throne of Eldraine) finally answers this, however, Overseer gives you tapped zombie tokens.
Awesome video, Mitch 😎 I’d suggest giving Pestilence Demon lifelink for a ton of it, maybe w. Whip of Erebos/Vampiric Link as others have suggested In your humble opinion; is Dread Presence too weak?
My favorite god hand moment with my K'rrik deck was sol ring, mana crypt, blood celebrant, a swamp, and torment of hailfire. My opponents looked at me and said game 2?
That is neat, i didn't think of that. Torment of hailfire is actually good in this scenario as long as you were able to pump more mana into it than the opponents have permanents to sacrifice. Unless you are going literally turn 1 this is too risky as everyone still has 7 card hands. Play Swamp (up one mana) Play Sol Ring and Mana Crypt (Down 1 mana up 4 mana) Cast K'rrk (down 4 mana and at 34 life) Cast Blood Celbrant (down to 32 life) Cast Torment of Hailfire: 4 life to pay actual cost (down to 28) 28 divided by 3 is 9 (your using 27 life to pump X 9 times) If this is TURN ONE and you did this they discarded they're hand of 7 cards and went down 6 life while your passing the turn at 1 life. Not too risky as if they discarded all their cards they're reliant on top decking a land and a haste 1/1. Chances are they have less than 6 life loss and probably went down 12 life loss and i'm sure someone payed 2 life to gutshot you out of the game.
Definitely an upgrade, but exquisite blood would also be decent in this deck, and you can maybe even pull off an infinite loop with sanguine bond. I think exblood is like $20 though, so definitely cool to play, but not cool for your wallet
Played this deck today with my group. It is gross. If you are able to tutor for necropotence, repay in kind and any drain spell you can combo off and win. Great stuff!!
Follow up on this comment. I brought this deck to my work play group and it best an entire table of 7-9ish power level decks that were very expensive. Really shows that sometimes good deck building is just as good as spending a lot of cash :D
I just don't like how fragile "repay in kind" is. If it fails to cast via getting countered your entire strat is shut down and you have to had lowered your health low upon casting it to cause everyone else's life totals low. Which means you could end up passing the turn with 1-5 life turn 1 or 2.
Trisk is dangerous - you're paying life - A LOT of life. This is another spot your opponents can kill you at - and if you're at 15, and pass, your opponent only needs to shock you. And that isn't hard.
This cmdr is really powerful. The hard part is even in the super tuned builds ive seen, half of these pretty underpowered cards still need to be in there. But gary is god in this deck... Just... Man... SERIOUSLY WATCH FOR GARY... that is all
I run a k'rrik in a cedh deck. It's currently sitting around the 800 dollar mark and honestly this deck probably only runs about 3 or 4 turns behind mine...at a literal fraction of the cost. Great deck tech, and for anyone watching thinking about building, do it. And this deck would be very easy to convert into an entry level comp deck with a few extra combo peices (some involving Gary)
Hey I am trying to also work on k'rrik deck with the hope of eventually making it competitive. Could I perhaps see your list?
Mines currently at around 3k haha.
Buy/make proxies lol....
Fuck WotC.
@@FireBlizzard24601 Krrik is a absolut banger deck. important is that you build it to win in several diffrent angels. first you have the combos than the citadel, mergent, etc. and also the creatures and drain. also i play about 15 tutors and 12 artifacts. its possible to win on turn 2 but more regularly 3-4. its a banger also with all the variants to win.
Vilis with krrk is absolutely bonkers
@lolimmune I looked up vilis and just started laughing. This general is so busted it’s unreal.
lolimmune pay four life to draw 4? Yes.
It really is. Last night I was playing this deck and at one point I had k'rrik and vilis out and realized with sign in blood I could pay 6 life to draw 8 cards lol it's crazy, if you do it right you'll draw at least 1 or 2 cards every time you play something
@@JohnDoe-df7bl It is banned, which is pretty stupid imo. With all of the cards available in commander and all of the ways to just win a game with one little combo I feel like banning cards in commander is just nonsensical.
@@JacknOats no I think Griselbrand is certainly one of the fair bans, 7 life for 7 cards in command zone is insane
turn 1 kill :
swamp
cast dark ritual (3 mana)
cast sol ring (4 mana)
cast kirik (take 6 down to 34)
cast blood celebrant (take 2 down to 32)
float 9 mana (take 27 down to 5)
cast repay in kind (5 mana plus 2 phyrexian)(take 4 down to 1)
cast blood tithe 🍻
jed lim I don’t think you can use krrik to float mana. Only pay black costs in cards.
@@rohansingh7698 not kirik, blood celebrant will float your mana..
jed lim oh you’re totally right. Completely missed that.
I pulled this off once! The chances of the perfect hand are low, but it does feel good to kill everyone on your first turn.
I do get a lot more hate now though....
@@tsummerhaysgood. That means they are afraid of you. 😁
I love dread shade and blood tracker in K’rrik. You can just feed them as much life as you want and they just keep growing and if you have Vilis, you just draw forever, they’re amazing.
I thought my k'rrik deck was good. Luckily I held off on buying it. I'm getting this one
Leshrac's sigil + aetherflux, or Bolas's citadel + sensei's top + aetherflux
michael allen why leshrac's sigil??
Marco Curvello Leshrac’s Sigil has an activated ability for 2 black mana to return it to your hand. It cost 2 black mana to cast. With K’rrik on the battlefield, both of these can be paid with life instead of mana. If you have Aetherflux Reservoir on the battlefield, you can loop casting the Sigil, then bouncing it using K’rrik’s ability and repeating, eventually gaining infinite life to then kill your opponents with the Reservoir.
K'rrik can be expensive. Mine is gonna be $800. Abusing k'rrik to cast the blood combo and pestilance or extort.
You express yourself very well, it's a pleasure to hear you explain the decks and other things
I am amazed at how similar your budget list is to the cEDH variant of K'rrik. Really impressive.
This is my favorite deck that I've seen from this channel. New Phyrexia was the expansion that got me into magic, so I'm elated to find a use for phyrexian Mana that isn't banned.
Oh my God I'm sooooooo glad I waited before pulling the trigger and building K'rrik
I love you Mitch
When will we see gameplay videos from your channel? Specifically with decks that you create here.
I would love to see that.
I was thinking the entire time, "Where's Vilis?" and then I remembered he costs $4 now. I remember when he was, like fifty cents.
I have villis prelease foil I got him during the prerelease
@@royalcollectables I was planning on buying like 10 when he was like $1.50 but I used the money to buy a urborg instead...I regret my decision and it was funny cause I thought it would go up
@@royalcollectables Nice
I knew the moment that card got spoiled it was going to be absurdly good. Just a measly B for two cards and a -1/-1? It's bonkers.
@@thrash208 Your urborg is still worth is price and Vilis is almost at 1.5 again.
Whip of Ebros is a good include. Giving lifelink to gain back helps my deck a lot. It is also an ugly thing on the Pestilence ability creatures.
Lifelink only works with combat damage. Vampiric Link combined with Pestilence Demon can be ruthless and possible win con if Exquisite Blood and Sanguine Bond are both on the field because it applies to any damage.
@@theotherguy4478
702.15b. Damage dealt by a source with lifelink causes that source's controller, or its owner if it has no controller, to gain that much life (in addition to any other results that damage causes).
This is an interesting idea which then means you could theoritically run more "value" creatures that only require black mana to cast and run all the available enchantments and potentially artifacts that provide lifelink where then Pestilence Demon becomes an activated EXTORT ability and if you can have Lifelink and Vampiric Link on it at the same time it's a win con as long as your not 1v1 at this point. However, this only works with Pestilence Demon which means you need enough creatures that only require black mana to cast to make the lifelink enchantments and such worth running. And because Black doesn't really have that same type of enchantment that White does for a creature that causes life gain to gain a +1/+1 counter you can't use Walking Ballista nor Triskelion so it would be an interesting build in just that your giving things lifelink that you were able to put into play.
I started watching this thinking, "WTF is going on here? You're gonna die easy!". Then I got to the main parts and thought, "Well, that's quite cruel."
This is a really sweet deck! I still think Marisi is the coolest commander from 2019 tho.
Oh my gosh I have been waiting for this and I was so happy to see this in my feed. Love this channel and always will be one of my favorit MTG channels. Keep doing what you doing and never stop
Bought this Finally! I love this deck concept! Its hard that within the hour of your video releasing the price jumps from the budget price. Its just the world we live in. Thank you for the amazing content!
A break the bank for this deck would be fantastic
Oh look, a powerful deck that can run my favorite combo of Aetherflux Reservoir and Bolas' Citadel. Sign me the heck up!
Mitch did not include Leshrac's Sigil which can be a 3 card combo using K'rrkk and Aetherflux.
Exactly what I needed in my life.
A krrik deck that will kill me easily.
I might need to build this
Edit: wait why is fellwar stone in the deck and not Vilis Broker of Blood?!
Yea , vilis is ridiculous with krrik, play a spell that is all black mana for hp , draw 2-8 cards, repeat until deck is your board state. Win.
does nobody every watch the upgrades? he is in there, because he is out of budget
Arne Röcke yes, but fellwar stone is $3 while vilis is $4, vilis let’s you combo off, fellwar stone is useless in the deck, so I’m sure you could scrape up an extra dollar.
Vilis is now $2.75. He should fit the budget.
I've been waiting for this budget build since k'rrik was spoiled, and as always, you stand and deliver.
It's amazing how many new options were made since this deck tech. Definantly one Mitch should consider doing an "updated" deck tech video on.
Some of my friends are fairly new to Magic, and willingly throw away their creatures to keep their life high. I should play this deck as a lesson, to teach them that the life total is as much a resource as your lands, or your hand.
It just sucks when your getting beat in the face by everyone at the table when there is someone actually using their life as a resource and that player is untouched.
I just woke up and saw this video. What a wonderful way to start the weekend
I woke up at 6:14 am to watch this
@@danielnguyen1601 I woke up at 6:00 to watch this
I just wanna make sure yall apreciate what this man does for us. I'm building a commander deck with this guy and mine is gonna take EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS. Of course, mine is a control deck all about being a self combo between using the blood combo and pestilence/exort/stronghold overseer and using k'rrik to cast it all as quickly as possible, but still. $50 bucks. Thats a steal.
Pestilence Demon is only good if your running Lifelink enchants/equipments and Vampiric Link. Overseer is terrible and the Ravenous Chupacabra is better though it's literally better to just run the instant and sorcery spells.
Just sounds to me like you spent money during the "hype" so your deck i'm sure would cost less to build today than it did when you made this comment and it seems your also using cards that you may not had needed.
Dont' forget that Bolas' Citadel with Aetherflux Reservoir will allow you to cast cards from the top of your deck until you hit a land.
That's when you play a draw spell and keep going 😉
Aetherflux Resivior comboes with Sensei's Devining Top and Bola's Citadel or (if you have sufficient life) Leghrac's Sigil.
As a new magic player I rly love your content because it helps me so much with affording decks to start my magic journey. I wish I would there would be an updated list because I don’t know what happened the last three years in terms of new cards or affordable upgrades for this deck. But anyway thanks for the awesome content!
Love it, I'm a huge fan of this Commander as well as a fan of Black - thanks for making this.
Shade’s Form and even Shade’s Breath are probably must plays. He’s got Lifelink after all.
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I have a very similar deck. It's really powerful. The big downside is that everyone knows how strong Krri'k is so I get targeted a lot, but when I don't it's super fun.
I like the way you did the upgrades this time. Very specific. Great video.
Reasonable upgrades:
Exquisite Blood:"Am I just a joke to you?"
It's $24
@@chaotica-game985 32$ :(
$35 T.T
$40 :(
Crystal vein, peat bog, Ebon stronghold, and Untaidake , the cloud keeper are really solid budget lands to ramp up.
This is how black is supposed to be played. Beautiful.
this deck is as glorious as the phyrexian vision
Even as a budget deck, K'rrik is just insane man! Awesome deck tech, Mitch.
I miss the puns on the top right corner... That said, these are still great quality!
Thanks for sharing this. I saw this commander and wanted to make a cheap deck and you just so happen to make it. I used your link and got everything. I love the idea of it
Mitch forgot Lishrac's Sigil along with a bunch of other useful cards such as Vampiric Link.
For real man you should start a podcast
Wouldn't bontu's monument be good in this deck?
yes and no. If you are making use of Oathsworn Vampire then i'd say yes. Otherwise the 3 mana investment is too much and you have to remember that K'rrik doesn't do "card advantage" that well so your literally better off with Pristine Talismen.
When I got the Anje commander precon, every card was misprinted with a off center printing. Now i have a use for my VERY off center K'rrik
Huh weird, not one to care about value but id say hold on to em XD
Oh My......
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose would be quite the addition here!
If you're playing this deck running Sanguine Bond, be on the lookout for the card Exquisite Blood. It can be a little pricey but it combos with Bond to win you the game.
I was wonder why no one was saying this wombo
Isnt those to infinite?
pestilence demon with whip of erebos/some other lifelink giver is a full on win condition with 2+ opponents in a k'rrik deck
This is basically the exact deck I made. Lots of life gain and life switching.
I think Gary could easily be the golden pig, as this deck really likes devotion
I run Gary with cards to reoccur him such as Kayas ghost form. Wake the dead. Doomed necromancer and whip of erebos.
Can easily drain 40+ life in a single interaction with a proper sac outlet
I agree, Gary should had been the "Golden Pig" of the deck and there's enough reanimation cards Mitch could had used to lean more on using Gary. Repay in Kind is a neat card that K'rrk can actually minipulate but it's easier to stop and interact with opposed to the myriad of reanimation cards in the game. There are also other creatures that can be made use of that benifit from this strat if you lose Gary and black is one of the colors that likes to discard cards so there's a work=around if you don't have Buried Alive nor Entomb. Just remember there are 2 artifacts that also provde "discard a card".
I like these tutors you added in this
I'd argue Blood Celebrant is the Golden Pig. Too much broken stuff happens when he hits the board.
I’d also recommend putting in phrexian obliterater as an upgrade
As of this comment that's a $20 card.
MageSkeleton As an upgrade
MageSkeleton he mentioned Necropotents As an upgrade and that’s a $25 card
This deck really needs ways like Kaya's Ghostform, Swiftfoot Boots and Darksteel Plate to protect K'rrik. He's going to have a huge target on his back
i've discovered that you'd rather K'rrk get sent to the command zone and just focus on "mana ramp". Kaya's Ghostform is not a terrible idea only because it synergizes. And there are other cards that do not actually provide indestructble you can run if you feel you need those effects. Just do not run "Undying Evil".
I started off with the $50 deck and recently bought cards to fully kit it out to about $125ish. It’s brutal and pulls wins out of nowhere. It’s my current favourite deck and is slowly replacing my Slivers as my main deck.
Can you share your upgrades?
sensei's divining top should be mentioned in upgrades next to doomlaser. If you have those two and bolas' citadel, that's a pseudo-infinite life/laser combo. keep replaying the top for 1 life and gain increasing life each time.
Skirge Familiar + Faith of the Devoted, tag teams with Vilis nice. Less so with The Skull
Neat, User Villis's ability to draw 4 cards, use Skirge's ability to discard a card activating Faith of the Devoted and using that generated black mana to drain everyone as you gain back the life you lost. So you end up stabilized at a life point while draining your opponents as long as you have cards you can draw.
I give this win con a jank score of 40%, find another use for "faith of the Devoted".
@@MageSkeleton
Shadow of the Grave combined with every B:Cycle card gives another chunk of juice. It is not the primary WinCon but it will strip an easy 20 from ppl.
Two suggestions : Withering Wisps and Null Profusion.
Withering Wisps is essentially a cheaper Pestilence provided you play snow-covered swamps.
Null Profusion is an insane card drawing engine. Sure, you can only have two cards in hand a EoT, but given that you're already spewing out your hand with K'rrik, it's hardly an issue. Also, if you add a Reliquary Tower to the mix, the drawback becomes inconsequential. A card that sees little play but that really finds its rightful place here.
Withering Wisps and Pestillence are not really played because they are enchantments and people run Pestilence Demon because with Lifelink and Vampiric Link it becomes a win con.
i thought of Null Profusion as well but the problem is getting around the maximum hand size restriction, paying that 6 generic mana, and still having things you can "play" because once you have no cards in hand and this enchantment on field your turn becomes "do i attack or not" and if anyone removes anything off your field sending to graveyard or exile your basically out of the game.
Yes! Thank you for making this video!
Last night I piloted a zombie tribal variant of K'rrik. Let me tell you: Disturbed Burial (with Buyback) is one of the most broken budget cards around, and I can't believe it's not in this deck tech. Being able to cycle sacrifice and recursion on Fleshbag Marauder, Sidisi, Death's Vizier, Gravedigger, and Gary is insane. Make your opponents sac their hexproof and indestructible creatures while tutoring your best cards and draining them with your board over, and over, and over....
Do you have a decklist
I started making a K'rrik deck last night that uses Endrek Sahr and Ashnod's Altar to generate lots of colorless mana and drain them out with Zulaport cutthroat effects.
What creature are you "Casting into play" to generate these creatures? Anceint Stone Idol? That would be neat if Crashing Drawbrige (Throne of Eldraine) was available at this time, neat budget win con. Ashnods Altar is about $5, Anceint Stone Idol is a 20c card, Endrek Sahr is about $2, Crashing Drawbridge is a 20c card. So you first need Endrek Sahr in play, then you cast Anceint Stone Idol which gets you 4 Black Thrull creature tokens, then Anceint Stone Idol bounces back to your hand. Then you use Ashnod's Altar to sacrifice 2 Black Thrulls and recast Anceint Stone Idol netting plus 2 each time. I don't know of any alternatives to any of these peices so i give this combo a 100% fragile score.
If you want a better way of Infinate mana, you will actually need access to your graveyard where that other combo doesn't need the graveyard. First you need Ashnod's Altar, then you need Ebon Hold Initiate, Carrian Feeder or other Zombie Creature with "Sacrifice a creature" (as of this comment there are 5 including Carrian Feeder) and either Gravecrawler or Oathsorn Vampire with Jet Medallion or Bontu's Monument or Helm of Awakening in play. Just remember that Ebonhold Initiate dies after you filter more than certain mana through him at end of turn.
Funnily, this kind of idea is something I've done with fellas like Vona the Butcher or Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim. Also, I have an Oloro deck based around cards like Axis of Mortality to swap life totals and cause mayhem on the table
it's a bit more difficult in mono black. Which is part of the enjoyment of the building challenge.
Deck tech starts at 1:17.
I run Rush of Vitality with Pestilence demon, its kinda auto include in k'rrik deck imo.
yeah got that fun little combo in as well, just havent gotten to cast it yet. A fun "variant" for the Rush of Vitality is Eternal Thirst - also gives the Demon lifelink, but instead of flat out indestructible it makes it grow for everything that dies (which can be quite deadly in a somewhat creature-heavy board/meta if and when you also get to swing with the Demon). Rush of Vitality is probably better, but thought I'd mention the other one as well :-)
I use rush of vitality on Pestilence Demon, and eternal thirst on K'rikk. That way, massive commander if needed.
Pestilence Demon + Basilisk Collar + Blessing of Leeches = board wipe on a stick with lifegain = winning
Nice value strat but it still leaves you open to getting wiped by the time you get that setup. No mention of Isocron Scepter? In MY OPINION you should ONLY run Pestilence Demon if your already running most every way to provide Lifelink and Vampiric Link. While Rush of Vitality provides Lifelink, the reason you run that card is because of the Indestructible until end of turn, and as of this comment there are 4 of those now. Unless you are using Helm of Awakening or Jet Medallion, however, your better off using the alternatives such as "Demonic Vigor" and "Malakir Rebirth" (Zendikar Rising) and DO NOT USE "Undying Evil" on K'rrk.
Supernatural Stamina
I love how he says K'rrik like carrot
Can you please do an update video for this Commander?
Just discorvered a hidden gem from born of the gods that would go great in this and maybe a new quest for quarters episode but its called sanguimancy. It draws cards and loses life equal to your devotion to black for 4 and a black and in this deck that devotion could be any number but almost never low.
This is why i decided to go through the comments section. Sanguimancy is a great idea especially if somehow you have Jet Medallion and/or Helm of Awakening to reduce it's casting cost.
I just finished an Ayara EDH build and I just ordered K'rrik to pump it WAY up
with all the incidental life gain and running sanguine bond, Exquisite Blood should also be considered, although it is $25. This is due to the vast amount of incidental life gain that you could loop with Sanguine Bond to to just drain everyone out.
K'rrik is one of the absolute best combo commanders ever printed. K'rrik decks can be absolutely scary as fuck.
Vampirik link on Pestilence Demon, and with K'rrik in play creates a game winning ping-of-death beast.
Behold the beyond -> Sanguine bond + underworld dreams + peer into the abyss
Hey Commander's Quarters, great video I'm a big fan of the channel. You've really helped with my deck building skills. I had an idea for a deck tech, what about a Kenrith, the Returned King tech? You could go five color humans or find a way to abuse his abilities, especially the reanimation ability.
Hey Mitch, I really enjoy these videos. That's all.
A DECK TECH WITHOUT WAYFARER’S BAUBLE?!
Finally was waiting for you to make one
This is really awesome and I happen to have a lot of these cards, but my playgroup would murder me if I put this together!
Would love to see a Korvold deck, think it might pose some good challenges for you.
Bond of Agony would be ok in this deck, and also i'm amazed that Exsanguinate isn't in here!
It would be more feasable with Vito, the Dusk Rose which is a new Legendary creature long after when this video was made. K'rrk doesn't have enough life gain unless you somehow get Zulaport or Blood Artist enchanted or equiped with lifelink which is too much expendeture.
He has it in the list
Just bought the playmat sign by mitch, you should get a deal with amazon, ebay has crazy shippijg fee!! Happy to help the channel keep going :)
Mitch, I don't know how I feel about making "Repay in Kind" the Golden Pig, this deck has so much life gain in it; than adding aetherflux reservoir as another contradictory win con at the very end? This deck seems less "focused" than usual. The phrase "we're going to gain so much life" doesn't mesh well with Repay in Kind unless we also have a black mana dumps to get back down low instead of one spell at a time.
There are a few cards that let you drop your life fast, with the commanders ability the cards that let you, pay 3 life to get a mana, pay 4 life to draw a card and the pay 2 life to deal everything 1 damage. also with citidel you can pay life as CMC to cast, so there are a few ways. You are also consistently paying life so I imagine you are usually not gaining that much once its all said and done.
@@agafaba Please get it right, when you pay 2 life to pay the cost of Pestillence or Pestillence Demon you are losing 3 life each time (1 of the 3 being damage) so unless you have Glacial Chasm in play your effectively paying 3 life to do 1 damage to each creature and opponent.
@@MageSkeleton you only pay two life though, I did say to everything, and you are included in everything.
Minor correction though, pay two life to deal 1 damage to everything in your current game of magic, no nearby players in other games are affected.
@@MageSkeleton also it isn't to each opponent, it would be pay 3 to deal one to each other player.
The distinction is small but matters for team games.
Slotted K'rrik into my mid-power, focused Chainer deck.
Now it suddenly looks like a high-power deck. K'rrick is silly.
WHich chainer? and why run the more important legendary creature in the 99 to use a creature that only works with K'rrk as your commander?
...now I feel like an idiot for missing Soul Conduit when building my K'rrik deck (which is inspired by your quick take from a while ago, so thanks for that as well!). Probably even better in my take on it than this one, because I happened to have a decent chunk of the Monoblack Ramp package lying around in an old mothballed 60 card deck (things like Nirkana Revenant, Crypt Ghast, Cabal Coffers, Magus of the Coffers and a Gauntlet of Power for good measure), so getting to 12 mana isnt actually all that hard for my deck. With those I kinda run a side-theme of generic "it's big and it's black and it's good and it kills you", not nearly as focused on the draining/combo aspect as yours is but with a bit more variety and options.
Very fun and powerful commander for sure - before the first game I played with it, a friend of mine kind of dismissed it as a semi-good deck at first glance, and it proceeded to prove him wrong very thoroughly :-)
WoTC needs to reprint "Gauntlets of Power".
This deck is badass, definitely picking this up!!
I’ve been waiting for this video
I love how when u were talking about paradise plum, you said most of the time you would choose black. When would you not?
I run my version of this deck with a demons theme around lilianas contract. Devotion and spells with 3-4 pure swamp costs. Kykthos taps for a flood of mana.
Grave crawler and Gisa combo to make endless zombies each turn.
Gary and abhorrent overlord can be win cons alone.
As is Sorin markov
A cheap interaction I had fun with was pestilence demon. Loxodon warhammer. And overseer of the damned. Each untap step I would trigger 4x and now down a handful of creatures and make more zombies
What is "Kykthos?"
Ghoulcaller Gisa has to tap to cause that effect, so she's too slow and would need haste to "turn on".
Abhorrent Overlord rewards you for having devotion to black and gives you alot of creatures yes, but that's all it does. Gary doesn't interact with tokens at all because tokens have devotion 0.
Sorin Markov is a "fixer" and a nice option.
Pestilence Demon can be given Lifelink through many ways, and with Vampiric Link it turns into a win con. Overseer of the Damned is a neat demon also, but tokens only win games when you have haste. Crashing Drawbridge (Throne of Eldraine) finally answers this, however, Overseer gives you tapped zombie tokens.
I cant decide which I like better at the help Vilis or K'rrik.
*Wheezes in Core Set 21 and Vito*
Awesome video, Mitch 😎
I’d suggest giving Pestilence Demon lifelink for a ton of it, maybe w. Whip of Erebos/Vampiric Link as others have suggested
In your humble opinion; is Dread Presence too weak?
By the way...
Soul Conduit + Phyrexian Unlife + Solemnity
If only K'rrk had access to WHITE.
Alright this is being built tonight
I have been waiting for this!!!!!
you could also play tree of perdition
Love this one, got some ideas that I left out of my own k'rrik
I play a more straightforward recursion lifelink K'rrik deck tbh
y no pristine talisman tho?
That'd actually 've pretty decent, ramping color that colorless u need n giving life, he prolly just overlooked that card.
At the time of this video, Pristine Talisman went up to a $3 card like how Villis went from $1 to $15 during this hype.
My favorite god hand moment with my K'rrik deck was sol ring, mana crypt, blood celebrant, a swamp, and torment of hailfire. My opponents looked at me and said game 2?
That is neat, i didn't think of that. Torment of hailfire is actually good in this scenario as long as you were able to pump more mana into it than the opponents have permanents to sacrifice. Unless you are going literally turn 1 this is too risky as everyone still has 7 card hands.
Play Swamp (up one mana)
Play Sol Ring and Mana Crypt (Down 1 mana up 4 mana)
Cast K'rrk (down 4 mana and at 34 life)
Cast Blood Celbrant (down to 32 life)
Cast Torment of Hailfire:
4 life to pay actual cost (down to 28)
28 divided by 3 is 9 (your using 27 life to pump X 9 times)
If this is TURN ONE and you did this they discarded they're hand of 7 cards and went down 6 life while your passing the turn at 1 life.
Not too risky as if they discarded all their cards they're reliant on top decking a land and a haste 1/1. Chances are they have less than 6 life loss and probably went down 12 life loss and i'm sure someone payed 2 life to gutshot you out of the game.
i've been waiting for this one! my deck is pretty damn good and fun but i wanted your take on it! thank you! :)
Definitely an upgrade, but exquisite blood would also be decent in this deck, and you can maybe even pull off an infinite loop with sanguine bond. I think exblood is like $20 though, so definitely cool to play, but not cool for your wallet
Played this deck today with my group. It is gross. If you are able to tutor for necropotence, repay in kind and any drain spell you can combo off and win. Great stuff!!
Follow up on this comment. I brought this deck to my work play group and it best an entire table of 7-9ish power level decks that were very expensive. Really shows that sometimes good deck building is just as good as spending a lot of cash :D
I just don't like how fragile "repay in kind" is. If it fails to cast via getting countered your entire strat is shut down and you have to had lowered your health low upon casting it to cause everyone else's life totals low. Which means you could end up passing the turn with 1-5 life turn 1 or 2.
taking out Triskaidekaphobia? insanity.
Trisk is dangerous - you're paying life - A LOT of life. This is another spot your opponents can kill you at - and if you're at 15, and pass, your opponent only needs to shock you. And that isn't hard.
I feel like it HAS to stay in just for flavor!
Powerful deck, but I think it needs more protection for K'rrik
Eh i think it needs recursion for K'rrik because its black, he doesnt need to protect shit if he can recur it easily
This cmdr is really powerful. The hard part is even in the super tuned builds ive seen, half of these pretty underpowered cards still need to be in there. But gary is god in this deck... Just... Man... SERIOUSLY WATCH FOR GARY... that is all
Thanks for the video as always
I’ve wanted to make this since the precon came out.... but I’m really worried my friends may stab me with something 😂
When you wanna add necropotence but it's now $40
Love this commander