I know K'rrik is outstandingly good‚ but honestly this is probably the first time they've handled Phyrexian Mana correctly‚ and as a Mono-Black creature‚ he remains acceptable (if not ridiculous). The biggest problem that stemmed from Phyrexian Mana was making the color pie irrelevant. K'rrik does not do this‚ he exclusively breaks Black cards. I agree that he taps into one of the strongest aspect of black in the extreme; life for effects‚ but the sort of ability he brings to bear is what Black is "meant to do” . I'd also like to point out that Phyrexian Mana (while insane) never actually broke EDH; it broke 60 card formats for it's freedom and efficiency. Pod may be amazing‚ but in a format with Survival of the fittest‚ Food Chain and Lab Maniac combos‚ it's not nearly as back breaking. With K'rrik‚ you basically have the most auto-include mono Black card ever printed‚ but he remains surprisingly fair for what he is.
All of these are fair points, but remember the playgroups this guy and other non-cEDH channels go to. They're not busting out the actual good stuff, so something like this seems utterly ridiculous to them.
Keep in mind phyrexian mana was also broken for free spells at little disadvantage: Gitaxian Probe made storm decks go off way easier, allowed combo decks to see the safest exit, and netted zero card disadvantage. Meanwhile Mental Misstep wasn't just usable in every deck, it netted no disadvantage and countered important cards to every deck.
@@lecmark3278 Mental Misstep gave a counter to decks that normally couldn't afford to splash blue for counters, and really, many decks ran it just to counter the opponent's own Misstep which is the real reason it was banned. Again, the primary problem with "free" Phyrexian spells is that they gave decks access to card effects they either don't normally get, or don't normally get at an affordable cost. We still have plenty of "free" spells like Gutshot, or 1 mana spells like Dismember, but those aren't likely to be banned as Gutshot's effect just isn't strong enough and Dismember costing 4 life is a big drawback. Phyrexian mana is likely still a mistake overall, but on the whole, only a few cards that have it were actually a problem because of it.
@@ForeverLaxx I acknowledge being colorless was a big reason it was banned but it's also just kind of broken to have a free counter with no card disadvantage in general.
@@ForeverLaxx it's weird, cause seeing dj's decks with beta lands and inventions you'd expect him to have a collection that gives him enough knowledge to know how mediocre this is. He's basically telling People to waste their money on false Hopes.
DJ please do a podcast....please...i really enjoyed your time with the command zone and your deck techs...so again...please for the love of god start a podcast.
Font of agonies. Pay 2 life to use. Each time you use K'rrik's effect in place of mana, you put more counters on Font of agonies. Pay two extra life (which will add counters) and (1), and you get to kill something.
I like how Wizards of the Coast said that Phyrexian Mana was an error and that it was on the same level than delve, dredge and storm on the brokeness scale. Then they make this card years later.
Phyrexian Mana was an "error" for more than just the potential for free mana. It allowed decks to easily incorporate aspects of another color without having to actually put in the mana to cast that spell. While this card still allows the "free" aspect, it's only for black spells so black isn't getting cards/effects it normally doesn't. Now, that's not to say that this card can't still show that even when staying in-color Phyrexian Mana shouldn't exist, but maybe it won't. I know this card isn't likely to see competitive tables unless someone manages to build a consistent monoblack Reservoir build that doesn't care if it can protect the artifact or not.
Yeah, cause it's a commander card. This is shit in legacy and not legal in modern. For commander it's okay as a commander and requires a build-around in the 99. It's not a broken card. It's a fair use of phyrexian mana that needs a lot of Cards for a setup. Even at a table with optimized shitty commanders he won't stay on board and in cedh he's not Even worth thinking of as a card.
Molten Steel Dragon is an MVP card in my friends EXPENSIVE Scion dragon deck. He plays Scion, dumps Molten steel and swings for lethal commander damage all in one hit.
Pontiff of blight and alhammarrett's archive would be pretty good in here too. Effectively pay nothing (as whatever life youd pay for extorting would be recouped between the 2 in play) to bleed all opponents a massive ammount for every spell you cast.
Those extort cards were literally PRINTED in mono black commander decks. That alone should tell people how legal they are. You even used the printings with the commander set symbol.
@@ZakanaHachihaCBC Asking questions is good. The few people that refuse to accept the answer are more of a problem, especially in the middle of a game.
Jonathan King agreed. I know when Extort was spoiled there was questions about if it could be in a non-white/Black EDH Deck once mono-color cards got printed with it.
I wanted to look in the comments to see, because every Google search I found says that dual casting cost is not legal in mono-color decks. So I'm not too sure still, it makes sense because it is technicality a W/B effect, but being in the reminder text does mean it's not actually a part of the card so I can see why people argue it
@@evilmonkey2184 it doesn't help that every card with extort is printed with reminder text. If there was a card printed without it, people would have an easier time visualizing it.
Hey Jumbo, I don't normally comment but I had a question. Looking at the decklist, I am curious if you thought about adding a Crucible of Worlds to pair well with the Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and the Lake of the Dead. It's definitely one of my favorite mana combos, since it does not specify an *untapped* swamp. Tap swamp, sac it, bring back into play, tap it, boom 6 floating black. Such a nasty way to keep ahead of the mana game. Have you considered this card when putting this decklist together, or is there a chance it slipped your mind? If you did consider it before deciding to leave it out, could you explain why? Thanks, I can't wait to make a K'rrik deck now.
jumbo, you make the most consistent and powerful decklists I see. The only deck I bought was the madness one, I'm very torn in the direction I want to make Anje Falkenrath because there are so little relevant madness cards. I would LOVE to see your list if you have plans to make one soon.
I run anje as commander.... run every madness card regardless of relevance... if you dont need the card discard and draw... then i have every card that gives your creatures +1/+1... i also run world gorger dragon as my end game... and tons of kill spells... its essentially vampire tribal... cuz every other madness card i hate to see is just a means to thin the deck and get what i want!
Huh.....thats actually very flavorful. K'rrik being very op, both lore and gameplay wise, and he's going crazy within the time bubble, so he wants to kill everything as fast as possible. I like it, i like very much. I will put him in Yawgmoth, though, cus flavorful......and he's also good as the 99.
turn one - swamp - dark ritual - sol ring - pay 6 life and cast him before your opponents even get their first land drop, turn 2 drop Bolas's Citadel and just go crazy.
Or mana vault, or lotus petal, basalt monolith, grim monolith. This deck can consistently land k'rrik plus multiple spells from turn one in. Tried against my friends tuned competive decks and hosed them.
First, I want to say thank you for giving me an idea of how to play K'rrik. Second, I wanted to ask about the inclusion of Blood Celebrant in the deck. Mostly, why? For the fringe cases of needing to pump mana into an X spell? Or if you don't have any swamps, but need black mana?
blood celebrant lets you pay life for colorless costs with k'rrik's ability, rather than just black. If you have blood celebrant out and play k'rrik on turn 4, you can play any/all cards in your hand
one very underrated card for this deck is Liege of the Pit. Morph for 3 and flip for 8, flying and trample is nothing to scoff at. It will deal 7 damage to you at your upkeep but with lifegain, its fine
Yeah, K'rrk is going right into my OG Chainer deck. Paired with Vilis and Font of Agonies every time I reanimate a creature I can just draw 9 cards and kill two things.
My point is that you could win the game (which is a better outcome) with less cards (which will happen more frequently) which makes your "combo" not that interesting at all.
@@toyaoren772 Well that is some extremely flawed logic. First of all, can you foresee every possible outcome of that "combo"? Because drawing 9 cards + reanimating a crucial creature can usually end the game in my Chainer deck. Besides, what's not interesting to you, may be interesting to others. Secondly, if you can't see the importance of playing cards that possess synergy with one another, then you need to work on your deck building/card evaluation. I'd be happy to point you in the right direction of some places you could learn. Finally, I certainly didn't claim this was a "game ending combo" (though again, that much card advantage usually does finish the game). Sure there are more efficient ways to end the game, but that wasn't the point of this comment. It was to mention the obvious synergies of the 4 cards I mentioned. So again, what's your point? Other than to trying to boost your ego as a "superior magic player".
Oh man what potential! I think you could include a minion theme, like Chainer or even Balthor for graveyard shenanigans, maybe praetor's grasp with Xiahou Dunn to bring it back and thrull parasite to extort.... nasty
Dude i build the shadow born deck on your suggestions here did the secret salvage ad it was magical christmas land. it's so good you don't even need more than 20 to set yourself up
Oh yeah and ring of xathrid also gives your creature the ability to regenerate as well so they'll help with keeping him from going back into the command Zone.
Thinking 🤔 about building this as my 1st Commander Deck. It was funny all the cards I was imagining Literally seconds later you were mentioning them. One Guy I will definitely add is my Favorite black Legendary Gonti L.0.L
If you have a dark ritual and/or sol ring/cabal therapy in your opening hand you can drop Kirk turn 1. Pair that with a phyrexian obliterator, necropotence, or any other strong black spell you can just drop with Kirk and you pretty much have a turn one win.
Love the video, subscribed . . . I have this guy in the deck and wanted to make a deck with him as the Commander (and make use of other cards that worked with him,) having not played in many years and just recently returning I want to thank you for the video and will look forward to seeing other videos that you do.
using k'rrik, you can go infinite and win the game by assembling a 4 card combo: 1. have chainer dementia master, k'rrik, and a sac outlet (like viscera seer) on the battlefield 2. put gray merchant of asphodel onto the battlefield from anywhere (from hand, reanimate with chainer, etc) 3. sac gary to an outlet 4. pay 9 life for chainer's ability (3 phyrexian black + 3 life) to reanimate gary 5. sac gary to an outlet 6. repeat steps 4 and 5 the best part is, you'll only need to pay for the mana costs of these permanents to enter the battlefield. from there, you just pay phyrexian black mana to win. you'll gain more life from draining you opponents than you lose to phyrexian mana costs. god, i love mono black.
Not saying I disagree, but on the shade vs molten dragon comparison, there is a fundamental difference between a black creature and a red creature when it comes to the potential to pump for firebreathing- as well as a huge difference in mana cost (3 vs 6) Dreadshade isn’t that great, I was actually surprised to see it brought up, but it is miles better than molten
I think Moltensteel Dragon only finds room in Scion of the Ur-Dragon decks, where the owner activates Scion twice, bins Moltensteel, pumps up in response to the second activation and then bins Skithryx, Atarka or Dragon Tyrant to swing for lethal.
Maybe it's not as good as it looks, but I still kinda like the idea of a K'rrik Shade Tribal deck. I like building decks around weird tribes, and there are just about enough decent Shades to make this thing work.
The easiest combo would be a bunch of tutors, grab Bolas's Citadel and Aetherflux Reservoir, proceed to cast a ton of cards from your deck while gaining life, and kill players with the Reservoir. This also has added benefit of pumping K'rrik with each cast so if you get low you can just attack and gain a bunch back. Also throw in combos with Zulaport, Gravecrawler, etc. This deck could be stupid good. In theory; Swamp, Mana Crypt, Dark Ritual, K'rrik turn 1. Land, Citadel turn 2, and go off.
So I just started building it. One of my little combos is endless cockroaches, with a cost reducer such as jet medallion or bontu's monument, You can sac it over and over, with aetherflux out and pretty soon you will be positive on life gain from aetherflux, and you can kill with just the aetherflux.
K'rrik goes better as a combo piece i reckon. I have him in my Chainer, Dementia Master deck, can do some dirty things by sacrificing and recurring Kokusho, the Evening Star an infinite number of times since we don't need to pay mana for Chainer's ability anymore. Pay 9 life, recur Kokusho, drain each opponent for 5, sac Kokusho, repeat until everyone is dead. Same with Gary. Can sac other things repeatedly while you have a Dross Harvester or Blood Artist effects to net life too.
Thrashing Wumpus + Rush of Vitality: you can literally win the moment this combo goes off especially if there are 1/1s on the field, if not, zuran orb some tapped lands.
I have a shadowborn apostle deck, and the constraining factor for that deck is not Mana. I've won with three lands before. Phyrexian alter gives you practically as much Mana as you could ever need.
Yawgmoth isn't K'rricks son. Formarly known as kerrik.. He is a phyrexian sleeper agent and was sent to infiltrate Yawgmoth lab to find out what's going on there.. Stuff happens and he ends up as this powerful castaway and takes the name as Son of Yawgmoth while also renaming himself k'rrick
He's Yawgmoth's son in title only. Just like Xantcha and essentially any other Phyrexian would be considered sons/daughters of Yawgmoth. It's metaphorical, not referring to actual progeny
I once stole a game by putting Phage the untouchable in the graveyard with an Entomb in response to someone's Rise of the dark realms. Other than that, I love mono black, but I think the whole point of mana cost... Is for it to be paid with mana. Anyway, great deck, gives amazing insight :)
K'rrik can also grease the wheels in an explosive Jund list. K'rrik plus Thermopod, Grand Warlord Radha, and token generators like Rapacious One and Mycoloth can act as big fat mana generators to get online later in the game and can lead to REALLY big turns, if you're into that whole "assemble the machines" kind of victory condition. Frankly, pull K'rrik and go Naya with something like that and Atla Palani as commander.....
Also, K'rrik Morph. This may well be a thing. Spicy, I know, but that makes it ALL the better to jank people out with... And it's sort of on flavor, sleeper agents and morph creatures and such... Just a thought.
k'rrik with Bolas' Citadel and Aetherflux Reservoir wins you thr game right? edit: Well almost, and I now see that these cards are already included in the deck
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At first glance I thought this card was BROKEN AF, but then I asked myself this... Is it worth it to play a "4" drop commander and pay around 25+ (after you gone through all the work afterwards) life to create a weak one card combo for only black mana that doesn't truly go infinite in the end when you could be playing much more consistent and more broken combos without limiting yourself to mono black? My answer would be NO. Now don't get me wrong this is a very strong EFFECT and if it had blue or red in it I would still be thinking this is broken af, but it doesn't. Cons to this card... 1) It only offers combo style decks, if you argue this point you are just lying to yourself. 2) The most broken cards you can cast with this early on just become MEH now. (Doomsday, without Lab Man isn't an option really. Ad Nauseam, when you start at ~20 life in a 100 card singleton format isn't too impressive. Necropotence, 13 life for a new hand that only comes at the end of turn and weakens your reanimation combos isn't worth it.) 3) If K'rrik is shot after he ETB's you got totally F***** over. 4) This list could go on a little further, but these are the points that I felt were relevant enough to actually mention. BTW, I'm NOT saying this card is BAD, I just don't think it is as broken as everyone is making it out to seem.
@@koblfricker278 It's good to see someone else knows how to truly determine the power level of a card. These were the same thoughts I had on Urza, Lord High Artificer. At first glance Urzy was broken beyond belief, but then I asked myself... "Why is Mox Sapphire SO good?" And the answer would be since all of the Moxes allow for crazy fast T1-2 wins. So if I went out of my way and dedicated my deck to getting an Urzy T2 on the battlefield I might gain 2 mana by next turn. So then I asked myself... "Why would I play an very consistent T2 combo that takes ~2 ramp pieces from my hand that is dead to any form off interaction and only grants me ~2 extra mana by next turn? Also I would have a ton of cards in my deck that I probably would never consider playing if this wasn't my game plan." And the answer to this (you guessed it, lol) I wouldn't. Okay, enough with my ranting, but if you ever want to know my thoughts on any card in any format just let me know in the comments and I will try to get back fairly quickly. (I love evaluating cards and sharing my thoughts on them, if you haven't figured out by now.)
8:13 Have any card with extort on field Your boi, k'rrik, son of daddy also on field 2 creatures that have one black mana in their mana cost (a creature where it only cost B to cast) like v seer or gravecrawler A way to keep bouncing them back to hand or bring them ba k from the grave? Keep returning them to hand and paying two life to put back on the field while extorting -2 + (-2 extort payment) + 3 - 4 + 3 - 1 Each playing losing 1 point per loop. Bring everyone crashing down low as possible then finish them off.
I just noticed that limited resources is banned, and, I have to ask: why? We're constantly complaining about white being underpowered, and yet we snipe the only decent cards they have? Besides, white doesn't have much non-land ramp, so isn't it hurting itself too??? It just doesn't make sense to me.
I have been running a fun little jankie esper oloro deck where kirrik is like one of the mvps for a repay in kind kill deck on untap one of the free sites
It may hinder more than it helps, depending on how you build the deck... you can't run many of the death loop cards like Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat effectively because of the -1/-1 effect.
I'm new and I don't understand? So basically I can cast the rest of the deck paying life just because my commander has that option in the cast section?
You'll still have to pay the generic mana costs, but you can replace the black mana costs with life. Cards and abilities that only have black mana in their costs are essentially mana-free.
I'm interested in exploring this commander. I'm still not super skilled with the game yet as a whole, so I feel this would be a good deck for me to try out that would help me learn about resource management more. In a normal commander game, you start with 40 life. This means that you have 39 life to be used as an aid to victory. You don't care about your life total until you're down to your last point. This commander would teach me how to read the game. It would teach me how to know when I need to flex defensively vs aggressively. Can I really afford to be "all in" right now, or should I be more passive? I'm just not sure what direction I would want to go with this. I don't like the idea of decks that just infinite combo off for a hurr durr win. I'm looking to play casually and have a good time at the core. But having the ability to turn it up to max power and go harder would be nice too
BlackHeart I have played many decks and got tired of normal decks I now play urza combo But I think u would enjoy this or his idea for a shadow born apostles
my buddy uses kalia and goes to attack with kalia and moltensteel dragon, kalia triggers and in response he pumps as much life into moltensteel then drops resolute archangel to go back to full life
sorry but moltensteel dragon is double the cost and only gives power not toughness. dosent matter how big your dragon is if he dies to 1 card to your 30 life
I haven't gotten very far Through the video Call a very under looked card to go with this is the hypernox....idk If I spelt that right that rite... But when it comes out the other player remove their hands from the game until it is removed off the field which is a A big game changer
So I didnt read all the comments but here me out for some dirty spice, play Repay in Kind . get your life super low Reapy in kind everyone and then play Gary lol
An alternate method for infinite black mana. Mikaeus and Blood Vassal with Retribution of the ancients. Infinite black mana plus infinite death triggers.
Black players: this is fine... This is FINE!!!
Everyone else: *sacrificed*
If i win with 1 life or with 40, I still win ;)
Winning at negative 57 life works too.
This guy just reawakened my joy for the commander format and got me brewing again..Thank you so much Jumbo
He helped me keep my brewing style building around unique wincons usually dries up by now.
Huh I wonder if phyrexian mana is a broken mechanic??
Nah, life is more important
You’re right, mana is a much more available resource that definitely can’t be abused in any way
@@Kazz1187 gotta think, no life = dead
@@Casey-cy6ph 1 life = not dead. 39 life =19.5 mana 20 mana = win?
@@perfectdoll4112 uhhhh.... No u
I know K'rrik is outstandingly good‚ but honestly this is probably the first time they've handled Phyrexian Mana correctly‚ and as a Mono-Black creature‚ he remains acceptable (if not ridiculous).
The biggest problem that stemmed from Phyrexian Mana was making the color pie irrelevant. K'rrik does not do this‚ he exclusively breaks Black cards.
I agree that he taps into one of the strongest aspect of black in the extreme; life for effects‚ but the sort of ability he brings to bear is what Black is "meant to do” .
I'd also like to point out that Phyrexian Mana (while insane) never actually broke EDH; it broke 60 card formats for it's freedom and efficiency.
Pod may be amazing‚ but in a format with Survival of the fittest‚ Food Chain and Lab Maniac combos‚ it's not nearly as back breaking.
With K'rrik‚ you basically have the most auto-include mono Black card ever printed‚ but he remains surprisingly fair for what he is.
All of these are fair points, but remember the playgroups this guy and other non-cEDH channels go to. They're not busting out the actual good stuff, so something like this seems utterly ridiculous to them.
Keep in mind phyrexian mana was also broken for free spells at little disadvantage: Gitaxian Probe made storm decks go off way easier, allowed combo decks to see the safest exit, and netted zero card disadvantage. Meanwhile Mental Misstep wasn't just usable in every deck, it netted no disadvantage and countered important cards to every deck.
@@lecmark3278 Mental Misstep gave a counter to decks that normally couldn't afford to splash blue for counters, and really, many decks ran it just to counter the opponent's own Misstep which is the real reason it was banned. Again, the primary problem with "free" Phyrexian spells is that they gave decks access to card effects they either don't normally get, or don't normally get at an affordable cost. We still have plenty of "free" spells like Gutshot, or 1 mana spells like Dismember, but those aren't likely to be banned as Gutshot's effect just isn't strong enough and Dismember costing 4 life is a big drawback.
Phyrexian mana is likely still a mistake overall, but on the whole, only a few cards that have it were actually a problem because of it.
@@ForeverLaxx I acknowledge being colorless was a big reason it was banned but it's also just kind of broken to have a free counter with no card disadvantage in general.
@@ForeverLaxx it's weird, cause seeing dj's decks with beta lands and inventions you'd expect him to have a collection that gives him enough knowledge to know how mediocre this is. He's basically telling People to waste their money on false Hopes.
DJ please do a podcast....please...i really enjoyed your time with the command zone and your deck techs...so again...please for the love of god start a podcast.
Font of agonies. Pay 2 life to use. Each time you use K'rrik's effect in place of mana, you put more counters on Font of agonies. Pay two extra life (which will add counters) and (1), and you get to kill something.
Pay 2 life, cast dark ritual, get 3 mana then do more outrageous things. Seems legit.
Saw this video and immediately clicked, can't wait to build this guy!
You and myself and everyone else
I'm already built.
I like how Wizards of the Coast said that Phyrexian Mana was an error and that it was on the same level than delve, dredge and storm on the brokeness scale. Then they make this card years later.
Don’t forget about Hogaak a few months ago!
Phyrexian Mana was an "error" for more than just the potential for free mana. It allowed decks to easily incorporate aspects of another color without having to actually put in the mana to cast that spell. While this card still allows the "free" aspect, it's only for black spells so black isn't getting cards/effects it normally doesn't. Now, that's not to say that this card can't still show that even when staying in-color Phyrexian Mana shouldn't exist, but maybe it won't. I know this card isn't likely to see competitive tables unless someone manages to build a consistent monoblack Reservoir build that doesn't care if it can protect the artifact or not.
At least it doesn't break the whole colorpie this time xD
It's only legal in casual formats, that's where the whacky powerful stuff belongs. I say go crazy.
Yeah, cause it's a commander card. This is shit in legacy and not legal in modern. For commander it's okay as a commander and requires a build-around in the 99. It's not a broken card. It's a fair use of phyrexian mana that needs a lot of Cards for a setup. Even at a table with optimized shitty commanders he won't stay on board and in cedh he's not Even worth thinking of as a card.
Commander 2020: Dredge, Delve, Storm, and Cascade.
Powerful and fun mechanics that people would love to play? Are you out of your mind? We don't do that here!
Commander: Modern/Legacy
Honestly I would buy it.
Please, these are the mechanics that hardened Commander players want in pre cons (hell you can get a freebie by reprinting Yidris)
Then I’m getting a pallet of commander 2020
LaBass666 is Yidris expensive?
there is a vampire that also doubles up black mana, just like Crypt Ghast does, it's called "Nirkana Revenant"
Edit: I see you have it in the deck.
Molten Steel Dragon is an MVP card in my friends EXPENSIVE Scion dragon deck.
He plays Scion, dumps Molten steel and swings for lethal commander damage all in one hit.
Pontiff of blight and alhammarrett's archive would be pretty good in here too. Effectively pay nothing (as whatever life youd pay for extorting would be recouped between the 2 in play) to bleed all opponents a massive ammount for every spell you cast.
Those extort cards were literally PRINTED in mono black commander decks. That alone should tell people how legal they are. You even used the printings with the commander set symbol.
There are still going to be people who are going to question if you can use them or not.
@@ZakanaHachihaCBC Asking questions is good. The few people that refuse to accept the answer are more of a problem, especially in the middle of a game.
Jonathan King agreed. I know when Extort was spoiled there was questions about if it could be in a non-white/Black EDH Deck once mono-color cards got printed with it.
I wanted to look in the comments to see, because every Google search I found says that dual casting cost is not legal in mono-color decks. So I'm not too sure still, it makes sense because it is technicality a W/B effect, but being in the reminder text does mean it's not actually a part of the card so I can see why people argue it
@@evilmonkey2184 it doesn't help that every card with extort is printed with reminder text. If there was a card printed without it, people would have an easier time visualizing it.
Awesome deck but FONT OF AGONIES WOULD BE SO GOOD IN THIS DECK
Font of agonies is insane, i also use heartless Summoning, just to get rid of alot of the mana cost.
Yes please
I pre-ordered the Rakdos deck just for this card tbh
Merciless rage?
@@danielhardin1006 yea, black/red is called rakdos
@@sejerrasmussen6537 I thought for a second it was rakdos themed. Which would have been amazing
Potion seller?
Hey Jumbo, I don't normally comment but I had a question. Looking at the decklist, I am curious if you thought about adding a Crucible of Worlds to pair well with the Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and the Lake of the Dead. It's definitely one of my favorite mana combos, since it does not specify an *untapped* swamp. Tap swamp, sac it, bring back into play, tap it, boom 6 floating black. Such a nasty way to keep ahead of the mana game. Have you considered this card when putting this decklist together, or is there a chance it slipped your mind? If you did consider it before deciding to leave it out, could you explain why? Thanks, I can't wait to make a K'rrik deck now.
jumbo, you make the most consistent and powerful decklists I see. The only deck I bought was the madness one, I'm very torn in the direction I want to make Anje Falkenrath because there are so little relevant madness cards. I would LOVE to see your list if you have plans to make one soon.
From what I've seen so far; play vamps with Falkenrath Gorger.
Things take off‚ REAL fast.
I'd build with the new Chainer to be honest. Seems pretty cool.
I built Worldgorger Combo for Anje because Anje gives you infinite draw in the command zone to go with the infinite mana that combo generates.
IMO you don’t make Anje, you slot her into Edgar. 3 mana, Haste, Card Draw, Vampire.
She’s really good
I run anje as commander.... run every madness card regardless of relevance... if you dont need the card discard and draw... then i have every card that gives your creatures +1/+1... i also run world gorger dragon as my end game... and tons of kill spells... its essentially vampire tribal... cuz every other madness card i hate to see is just a means to thin the deck and get what i want!
Kuro, Pitlord plus Vilis, Broker of Blood equals Griselbrand, you should consider adding those both together.
Bahahaha
I put him in my Yawgmoth wheels sacrifice deck, it's…broken broken. Finally…rule the galaxy as father and son lol
Tappedout link?
Vampiric Link and Pestilence Demon, on every end step, keep the board under control, wait out a win.
Had to come here after finally jumping on a judge promo. This is gonna be amazing to build
Your excitement is infectious. Keep doing you, my guy.
Torment of Hailfire with all the mana doublers in this deck would be insane
Huh.....thats actually very flavorful. K'rrik being very op, both lore and gameplay wise, and he's going crazy within the time bubble, so he wants to kill everything as fast as possible. I like it, i like very much. I will put him in Yawgmoth, though, cus flavorful......and he's also good as the 99.
When you play K'rrik, son of yawgmoth just to cast dark ritual for 2 life
turn one - swamp - dark ritual - sol ring - pay 6 life and cast him before your opponents even get their first land drop, turn 2 drop Bolas's Citadel and just go crazy.
after drop him t1 drop a doomsday for 6 life and win t1
Or mana vault, or lotus petal, basalt monolith, grim monolith. This deck can consistently land k'rrik plus multiple spells from turn one in. Tried against my friends tuned competive decks and hosed them.
Alhammarets archive is a must have. Also. A lot of demons support Krriks playstyle. Especially Rasaketh, i would go demon tribal if anything.
Moltensteel Dragon is perfect for the new Greven!
First, I want to say thank you for giving me an idea of how to play K'rrik. Second, I wanted to ask about the inclusion of Blood Celebrant in the deck. Mostly, why? For the fringe cases of needing to pump mana into an X spell? Or if you don't have any swamps, but need black mana?
blood celebrant lets you pay life for colorless costs with k'rrik's ability, rather than just black. If you have blood celebrant out and play k'rrik on turn 4, you can play any/all cards in your hand
@@timothyclifford7288 I'm annoyed I didn't get the notification for this earlier, but this is really cool. This explains a lot.
I find it funny Yawgmoth has protection from himself.
Captain K,rrik says: why build this deck......because I got too!!
Just watch, its going to be impossible to find a Rakdos 2019 deck because of him
I just now pre-ordered mine for that reason
Same!!
No Magus of the Mirror? What is this madness?
And soul conduit
This guy is going STRAIGHT into my Thraximundar zombie sacrifice deck. Dad's already there too.
Phyrexian oblitorator would be a cool add in
Already on it! Lol
You forgotten one of the best card in your deck : font of agonies
Huh, wonder where the opponent’s creatures went
one very underrated card for this deck is Liege of the Pit. Morph for 3 and flip for 8, flying and trample is nothing to scoff at. It will deal 7 damage to you at your upkeep but with lifegain, its fine
Yeah, K'rrk is going right into my OG Chainer deck. Paired with Vilis and Font of Agonies every time I reanimate a creature I can just draw 9 cards and kill two things.
3 card combo that doesn't win you the game
@@toyaoren772 Congratulations, you have made a partially correct statement. What's your point?
My point is that you could win the game (which is a better outcome) with less cards (which will happen more frequently) which makes your "combo" not that interesting at all.
@@toyaoren772 Well that is some extremely flawed logic. First of all, can you foresee every possible outcome of that "combo"? Because drawing 9 cards + reanimating a crucial creature can usually end the game in my Chainer deck. Besides, what's not interesting to you, may be interesting to others.
Secondly, if you can't see the importance of playing cards that possess synergy with one another, then you need to work on your deck building/card evaluation. I'd be happy to point you in the right direction of some places you could learn.
Finally, I certainly didn't claim this was a "game ending combo" (though again, that much card advantage usually does finish the game). Sure there are more efficient ways to end the game, but that wasn't the point of this comment. It was to mention the obvious synergies of the 4 cards I mentioned. So again, what's your point? Other than to trying to boost your ego as a "superior magic player".
Oh man what potential! I think you could include a minion theme, like Chainer or even Balthor for graveyard shenanigans, maybe praetor's grasp with Xiahou Dunn to bring it back and thrull parasite to extort.... nasty
Dude i build the shadow born deck on your suggestions here did the secret salvage ad it was magical christmas land. it's so good you don't even need more than 20 to set yourself up
Oh yeah and ring of xathrid also gives your creature the ability to regenerate as well so they'll help with keeping him from going back into the command Zone.
Good bey Sheoldred. Hello K'rrik.
Thinking 🤔 about building this as my 1st Commander Deck. It was funny all the cards I was imagining Literally seconds later you were mentioning them. One Guy I will definitely add is my Favorite black Legendary Gonti L.0.L
If you have a dark ritual and/or sol ring/cabal therapy in your opening hand you can drop Kirk turn 1. Pair that with a phyrexian obliterator, necropotence, or any other strong black spell you can just drop with Kirk and you pretty much have a turn one win.
Look up "Black Hole Sun" cEDH Primer for a much better, much more tuned deck-list. You're welcome.
Played your list in Forge really enjoyed it.
Love the video, subscribed . . . I have this guy in the deck and wanted to make a deck with him as the Commander (and make use of other cards that worked with him,) having not played in many years and just recently returning I want to thank you for the video and will look forward to seeing other videos that you do.
using k'rrik, you can go infinite and win the game by assembling a 4 card combo:
1. have chainer dementia master, k'rrik, and a sac outlet (like viscera seer) on the battlefield
2. put gray merchant of asphodel onto the battlefield from anywhere (from hand, reanimate with chainer, etc)
3. sac gary to an outlet
4. pay 9 life for chainer's ability (3 phyrexian black + 3 life) to reanimate gary
5. sac gary to an outlet
6. repeat steps 4 and 5
the best part is, you'll only need to pay for the mana costs of these permanents to enter the battlefield. from there, you just pay phyrexian black mana to win. you'll gain more life from draining you opponents than you lose to phyrexian mana costs.
god, i love mono black.
Not saying I disagree, but on the shade vs molten dragon comparison, there is a fundamental difference between a black creature and a red creature when it comes to the potential to pump for firebreathing- as well as a huge difference in mana cost (3 vs 6)
Dreadshade isn’t that great, I was actually surprised to see it brought up, but it is miles better than molten
I think Moltensteel Dragon only finds room in Scion of the Ur-Dragon decks, where the owner activates Scion twice, bins Moltensteel, pumps up in response to the second activation and then bins Skithryx, Atarka or Dragon Tyrant to swing for lethal.
Maybe it's not as good as it looks, but I still kinda like the idea of a K'rrik Shade Tribal deck. I like building decks around weird tribes, and there are just about enough decent Shades to make this thing work.
The easiest combo would be a bunch of tutors, grab Bolas's Citadel and Aetherflux Reservoir, proceed to cast a ton of cards from your deck while gaining life, and kill players with the Reservoir. This also has added benefit of pumping K'rrik with each cast so if you get low you can just attack and gain a bunch back. Also throw in combos with Zulaport, Gravecrawler, etc. This deck could be stupid good. In theory; Swamp, Mana Crypt, Dark Ritual, K'rrik turn 1. Land, Citadel turn 2, and go off.
Swap all your Swamps for Wastes to show everyone you're a badass.
And then play Urborg to show them you're actually a troll.
So I just started building it. One of my little combos is endless cockroaches, with a cost reducer such as jet medallion or bontu's monument, You can sac it over and over, with aetherflux out and pretty soon you will be positive on life gain from aetherflux, and you can kill with just the aetherflux.
Can you do a grismold deck?? I think it’s the janky group hug/ murder combo that you’re great at.
K'rrik goes better as a combo piece i reckon. I have him in my Chainer, Dementia Master deck, can do some dirty things by sacrificing and recurring Kokusho, the Evening Star an infinite number of times since we don't need to pay mana for Chainer's ability anymore. Pay 9 life, recur Kokusho, drain each opponent for 5, sac Kokusho, repeat until everyone is dead. Same with Gary. Can sac other things repeatedly while you have a Dross Harvester or Blood Artist effects to net life too.
Thrashing Wumpus + Rush of Vitality: you can literally win the moment this combo goes off especially if there are 1/1s on the field, if not, zuran orb some tapped lands.
I have a shadowborn apostle deck, and the constraining factor for that deck is not Mana. I've won with three lands before. Phyrexian alter gives you practically as much Mana as you could ever need.
Yawgmoth isn't K'rricks son.
Formarly known as kerrik.. He is a phyrexian sleeper agent and was sent to infiltrate Yawgmoth lab to find out what's going on there.. Stuff happens and he ends up as this powerful castaway and takes the name as Son of Yawgmoth while also renaming himself k'rrick
I don't think he said he was. He called Yawgmoth dad. Did you transpose the names? I didn't know the lore behind K'rrik that's pretty interesting.
He's Yawgmoth's son in title only. Just like Xantcha and essentially any other Phyrexian would be considered sons/daughters of Yawgmoth. It's metaphorical, not referring to actual progeny
Blood Celebrant, I pay 3 life to get a mana of any color so I don't need lands for generic mana in spell cost (plus it only cost one black to cast)
Senseis devining top+bolas citadel+aetherflux reservoir
With enough tutoring or good opening hands it can lead to consistent quick wins every time.
Shadowborne Apostles, Villis and Razaketh, Reservoir are all you need.
The rest can just be ramp and card draw and tech. I like Praetor's Grasp.
If you can make all the card draw black pips only that's a lot better.
I once stole a game by putting Phage the untouchable in the graveyard with an Entomb in response to someone's Rise of the dark realms. Other than that, I love mono black, but I think the whole point of mana cost... Is for it to be paid with mana. Anyway, great deck, gives amazing insight :)
K'rrik can also grease the wheels in an explosive Jund list. K'rrik plus Thermopod, Grand Warlord Radha, and token generators like Rapacious One and Mycoloth can act as big fat mana generators to get online later in the game and can lead to REALLY big turns, if you're into that whole "assemble the machines" kind of victory condition.
Frankly, pull K'rrik and go Naya with something like that and Atla Palani as commander.....
Also, K'rrik Morph.
This may well be a thing. Spicy, I know, but that makes it ALL the better to jank people out with... And it's sort of on flavor, sleeper agents and morph creatures and such... Just a thought.
I'm so excited. My basic comp for this deck is drain storm.
I freaking love this commander!! I've made it my mission to try to build a deck with him that isn't OP! Wish me luck!!
Not OP? Go for a voltron build maybe
Nug Humper that could be a thing :)
k'rrik with Bolas' Citadel and Aetherflux Reservoir wins you thr game right?
edit: Well almost, and I now see that these cards are already included in the deck
Just need that sensei's divining top the spin the top to win it all!
Made a K'rrik demon deck that uses Shadowborne Apostles. Its my absolute favorite deck.
want to be on Flavor ,Phthisis is now 3 (and 8 life)
Sorin's Vengeance 3(6 life) Deal 10 gain 10
Billy Idol Commander!
🎶In the midnight hour she cried Yawg, Yawgmoth
With a rebel yell she cried Yawg, Yawgmoth
In the midnight hour babe Yawg, Yawgmoth
With a rebel yell Yawg, Yawgmoth
Yawg, Yawgmoth 🎶
1 problem with the aetherflux, pay 50 life, draw 50 cards and deck out with villis on the field.
If u wanna go more grindy the enchanents that say when u gain/lose life ur opponents lose that much life are solid
Sanguine bond, and exquisite blood would be awesome for that
At first glance I thought this card was BROKEN AF, but then I asked myself this... Is it worth it to play a "4" drop commander and pay around 25+ (after you gone through all the work afterwards) life to create a weak one card combo for only black mana that doesn't truly go infinite in the end when you could be playing much more consistent and more broken combos without limiting yourself to mono black? My answer would be NO. Now don't get me wrong this is a very strong EFFECT and if it had blue or red in it I would still be thinking this is broken af, but it doesn't.
Cons to this card...
1) It only offers combo style decks, if you argue this point you are just lying to yourself.
2) The most broken cards you can cast with this early on just become MEH now. (Doomsday, without Lab Man isn't an option really. Ad Nauseam, when you start at ~20 life in a 100 card singleton format isn't too impressive. Necropotence, 13 life for a new hand that only comes at the end of turn and weakens your reanimation combos isn't worth it.)
3) If K'rrik is shot after he ETB's you got totally F***** over.
4) This list could go on a little further, but these are the points that I felt were relevant enough to actually mention.
BTW, I'm NOT saying this card is BAD, I just don't think it is as broken as everyone is making it out to seem.
F I N A L L Y someone put my thoughts into words!!!!! Is he strong? YES. Completely degenerate? Absolutely fucking not!!!
@@koblfricker278 It's good to see someone else knows how to truly determine the power level of a card. These were the same thoughts I had on Urza, Lord High Artificer. At first glance Urzy was broken beyond belief, but then I asked myself... "Why is Mox Sapphire SO good?" And the answer would be since all of the Moxes allow for crazy fast T1-2 wins. So if I went out of my way and dedicated my deck to getting an Urzy T2 on the battlefield I might gain 2 mana by next turn. So then I asked myself... "Why would I play an very consistent T2 combo that takes ~2 ramp pieces from my hand that is dead to any form off interaction and only grants me ~2 extra mana by next turn? Also I would have a ton of cards in my deck that I probably would never consider playing if this wasn't my game plan." And the answer to this (you guessed it, lol) I wouldn't.
Okay, enough with my ranting, but if you ever want to know my thoughts on any card in any format just let me know in the comments and I will try to get back fairly quickly. (I love evaluating cards and sharing my thoughts on them, if you haven't figured out by now.)
Fun fact he indirectly caused the time bubbles which are some of the most important things in the history of the game
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Have any card with extort on field
Your boi, k'rrik, son of daddy also on field
2 creatures that have one black mana in their mana cost (a creature where it only cost B to cast)
like v seer or gravecrawler
A way to keep bouncing them back to hand or bring them ba k from the grave?
Keep returning them to hand and paying two life to put back on the field while extorting
-2 + (-2 extort payment) + 3
- 4 + 3
- 1
Each playing losing 1 point per loop.
Bring everyone crashing down low as possible then finish them off.
If K'rrik said "Pay 2 life: Add 1 B" would vampiric link go infinite?
I just noticed that limited resources is banned, and, I have to ask: why? We're constantly complaining about white being underpowered, and yet we snipe the only decent cards they have? Besides, white doesn't have much non-land ramp, so isn't it hurting itself too??? It just doesn't make sense to me.
I have been running a fun little jankie esper oloro deck where kirrik is like one of the mvps for a repay in kind kill deck on untap one of the free sites
What about Heartless Summoning?
It may hinder more than it helps, depending on how you build the deck... you can't run many of the death loop cards like Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat effectively because of the -1/-1 effect.
Pairs with bad moon. See also Blood funnel and token generators.
Would a voltron deck be good? Cheap creatures, cheap spells and great equipment/auras.
I think you need to mention life swapping with opponents.
I'm new and I don't understand? So basically I can cast the rest of the deck paying life just because my commander has that option in the cast section?
You'll still have to pay the generic mana costs, but you can replace the black mana costs with life. Cards and abilities that only have black mana in their costs are essentially mana-free.
@@DarkEinherjar I see, thanks friend!
I'm interested in exploring this commander. I'm still not super skilled with the game yet as a whole, so I feel this would be a good deck for me to try out that would help me learn about resource management more. In a normal commander game, you start with 40 life. This means that you have 39 life to be used as an aid to victory. You don't care about your life total until you're down to your last point.
This commander would teach me how to read the game. It would teach me how to know when I need to flex defensively vs aggressively. Can I really afford to be "all in" right now, or should I be more passive?
I'm just not sure what direction I would want to go with this. I don't like the idea of decks that just infinite combo off for a hurr durr win. I'm looking to play casually and have a good time at the core. But having the ability to turn it up to max power and go harder would be nice too
BlackHeart I have played many decks and got tired of normal decks I now play urza combo
But I think u would enjoy this or his idea for a shadow born apostles
In my K'rrik Deck, I play Painter's Servant and Deathgrip.... Pay 4 life to counter any spell!
my buddy uses kalia and goes to attack with kalia and moltensteel dragon, kalia triggers and in response he pumps as much life into moltensteel then drops resolute archangel to go back to full life
sorry but moltensteel dragon is double the cost and only gives power not toughness. dosent matter how big your dragon is if he dies to 1 card to your 30 life
Is this deck work on duel commander or juste in multi ?
So, is this supposed to be cedh 2019? Why didn’t the Naya deck get a cedh commander?
Krrik is perfect in the 99 with Vilis as the general.
Dwayne Cowart K’rrik as the General and Vilis in the 99 is better though
Me: ob Nixilis the hate twisted
Enemy: Vitils + random creature
Me: uses ob -2
*creates infinite combo*
I haven't gotten very far Through the video Call a very under looked card to go with this is the hypernox....idk If I spelt that right that rite... But when it comes out the other player remove their hands from the game until it is removed off the field which is a A big game changer
I haven’t read every comment, but I haven’t seen anyone say magus of the mirror. Use all your life to play big stuff. Change life totals, then win
You can add Phyrexian Arena + altar, make a storm/creature deck.
K'rrik is so good i love him
I played my build deck around this guy Thursday. It really is broken!
I wanna see some gameplay of this🔥🔥🔥
Thoughts on filter lands with this?
So I didnt read all the comments but here me out for some dirty spice, play Repay in Kind . get your life super low Reapy in kind everyone and then play Gary lol
My friend did this haha. He went to 1 life and repaid us in kind and killed us. I was blown away, but I can appreciate this spiciness
An alternate method for infinite black mana. Mikaeus and Blood Vassal with Retribution of the ancients. Infinite black mana plus infinite death triggers.
I haven't really played Magic all that intensively, and even i can see that: Wait... Something smells fishy, _and it aint the damn fish._