The Black Knight is X-1 (Chains of Mephistopheles/Dark Deal/Haakon)

[kinda]

So, we're trying to combo chains of mephistopheles with dark deal to discard everyone's hand then cast stuff like Haakon from the gy. I think chains could be good vs oko decks plus elves or grizzly etc. type decks.


4 chains of mephistopheles
4 Chalice of the void
4 dark deal
3 Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
4 bloodghast
1 hogaak
1 vendilion clique
2 narset, parter of veils
2 Nameless inversion
1 zur's weirding
1 Anvil of Bogardan
2 buried alive
2 collective brutality
2 murderous rider
1 Midnight Reaper
1 Cavalier of Night
1 Oathsworn Knight
1 Blacklance Paragon

2 lotus petal
4 chrome mox
2 Cavern of Souls
3 Sunken Ruins
4 Polluted Delta
1 island
2 swamp
4 underground sea
2 ancient tomb

SB
4 Plague Engineer
4 leyline of the void
2 sorcerous spyglass
2 true-name nemesis
3 brazen borrower

[Fox]

Court Hussar and Entomb missing. Darkblast and Bridge from Below singletons and other Entomb fun times missing. Remember that changing X/1 Knight to 2/2 zombro is your ideal answer to Plague Engi. Consider Crib Swap.

Anvil, Zur's, Narset, Clique, so many Ghast, Buried Alive, Cavalier/Oathsworn/Midnight are all excessive. Dark Deal, Chains, and Chalice all pretty excessive and = autoloss to Oko. Consider Bloodchief's Thirst, Sinkhole, Kaya (3cmc), Vengeful Pharaoh, discard on land (Geier Reach). Would always play Rit over Chrome Mox (especially with option of Oppo Agent).

[kinda]

Court Hussar and Entomb missing. Darkblast and Bridge from Below singletons and other Entomb fun times missing. Remember that changing X/1 Knight to 2/2 zombro is your ideal answer to Plague Engi. Consider Crib Swap.

Anvil, Zur's, Narset, Clique, so many Ghast, Buried Alive, Cavalier/Oathsworn/Midnight are all excessive. Dark Deal, Chains, and Chalice all pretty excessive and = autoloss to Oko. Consider Bloodchief's Thirst, Sinkhole, Kaya (3cmc), Vengeful Pharaoh, discard on land (Geier Reach). Would always play Rit over Chrome Mox (especially with option of Oppo Agent).

I think you might be right on entomb, I'll try something without CotV next. I'm concerned with W though but without tomb it might be OK.

I think chains is very good vs. Oko decks, especially the control versions. Wut is more difficult is finding self synergies with chains.

[Fox]

Your draw effects need to come on the upkeep to exploit with Darkblast dredging if you're using Chains. Court Hussain doesn't care about Chains effects.. I would use Ashiok before Chains however, particularly with Dark Rit over Mox.

[Reeplcheep]

This perhaps will not fit in this deck, but I came up with a jank t4 "2 card" combo involving Haakon and knights.

t2 heartless summoning, t3 buried alive for haakon, corpse knight & jousting dummy. t4 cast haakon, cast corpse knight, then cast jousting dummy a million times.

https://CommanderSpellbook.com/?id=6971

[Pittplayer]

This perhaps will not fit in this deck, but I came up with a jank t4 "2 card" combo involving Haakon and knights.

t2 heartless summoning, t3 buried alive for haakon, corpse knight & jousting dummy. t4 cast haakon, cast corpse knight, then cast jousting dummy a million times.

https://CommanderSpellbook.com/?id=6971

That's actually a neat combo!

[rufus]

This perhaps will not fit in this deck, but I came up with a jank t4 "2 card" combo involving Haakon and knights.

t2 heartless summoning, t3 buried alive for haakon, corpse knight & jousting dummy. t4 cast haakon, cast corpse knight, then cast jousting dummy a million times.

https://CommanderSpellbook.com/?id=6971

You could streamline it with Perilous Myr instead of Jousting Dummy, but heartless summoning (1B) -> buried alive (2B) -> Haakon (BB) is a little heavy on the mana cost, and I'm not sure you can get heartless summoning out of the graveyard easily so I'm not sure it can work as a surprise combo well.

[Pittplayer]

You could streamline it with Perilous Myr instead of Jousting Dummy, but heartless summoning (1B) -> buried alive (2B) -> Haakon (BB) is a little heavy on the mana cost, and I'm not sure you can get heartless summoning out of the graveyard easily so I'm not sure it can work as a surprise combo well.

???? Dummy is a knight, Myr isnt... what am I missing?

[FTW]

It doesn't work

Opposition Agent seems very strong, and that encourages Dark Rits. Dark Rit and Entomb means probably no Chalice, and maybe some Liliana of the Veil.


//Mana: 25
4 Dark Ritual
3 Chrome Mox
2 Ancient Tomb
1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
4 Cavern of Souls
11 Snow-Covered Swamp

//Combo: 8
4 Chains of Mephistopheles
4 Dark Deal

//Spells: 9
3 Cabal Therapy
3 Thoughtseize
3 Entomb

//Planeswalkers: 2
2 Liliana of the Veil

//Creatures: 16
4 Opposition Agent
3 Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
2 Murderous Rider
2 Nameless Inversion
1 Blacklance Paragon
2 Knight of the Ebon Legion
1 Vengeful Pharaoh
1 Squee, Goblin Nabob

//Sideboard: 15
4 Leyline of the Void
3 Plague Engineer
2 Sorcerous Spyglass
1 Darkblast
1 Cling to Dust
1 Murderous Rider
1 Collective Brutality
1 Bloodchief's Thirst
1 Null Rod


The 1cc cards seem pretty strong here, maybe better than what Chalice would do.

Could try to fit in 2-3 Bloodghast too. It and Haakon have synergy with the Dark Deal combo and with Cabal Therapy.

[Fox]

The moment Bloodghast is im deck, you're just worse Hogaak. Different cards names, but the exact same deck - just worse.

[kinda]

The moment Bloodghast is im deck, you're just worse Hogaak. Different cards names, but the exact same deck - just worse.

Not in the slightest, hogaak can't morph into a deck which isn't reliant on the GY.

[kinda]

Boshnroll tried a chains plus dark deal deck.

https://youtu.be/WPx4CmNQxJs

[non-inflammable]

Boshnroll tried a chains plus dark deal deck.

https://youtu.be/WPx4CmNQxJs

i liked the deck enough to screen capture the list, but i'd pivot the deck back to a lands deck with the chains & dark deal combo.
go back to 4 wasteland, drop the manabonds and add explorations; play it like a fun lands list with a quirky combo...

[kinda]

Wasteland isn't very good against the labe decks though and the nonlabe decks still only run 1-2 basics where recurring GQ might be better than WL.