Tergrid, God of Fright · Deck list

100 CARDS.Bracket 4.

This is a single-bracket list at Bracket 4.

Bracket4 high-power

Game Changers9

Cards100

ArchetypeSacrifice-Denial Theft

// Main deck

Tergrid, God of Fright, and the 99.

// Commander1 card

Tergrid, God of Fright

KHMLegendary CreatureRare

4/5 with menace. Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent or discards a permanent card, you may put it onto the battlefield under your control. The back face, Tergrid's Lantern, taps to make a player lose 3 life unless they sacrifice a nonland permanent or discard a card, and untaps for . Order her trigger ABOVE Tinybones, Bauble Burglar's on any discard, or the Burglar exiles the card first and the theft finds an empty graveyard. Game Changer.

RoleCommander

// Legendary Creatures9 cards

Braids, Arisen Nightmare

EOCLegendary CreatureRare

3/3. End-step symmetric sacrifice: opponents match it or you drain and draw. With Tergrid out, what they sacrifice becomes yours.

RoleDraw

Braids, Cabal Minion

MH2Legendary CreatureRare

2/2. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player sacrifices an artifact, creature, or land of their choice. A per-upkeep edict on the whole table that never stops, and with Tergrid out every one of those sacrifices arrives on your side. She takes lands, so she is part of the Bracket 4 land-denial disclosure. Game Changer.

RoleSweeper

Syr Konrad, the Grim

ELDLegendary CreatureUncommon

5/4. Every creature death anywhere pings each opponent, so the engine and every sweeper become a drain. mills to keep it going.

RoleFinisher

The Haunt of Hightower

PLSTLegendary CreatureMythic

3/3 flying lifelink. A +1/+1 counter for every card that hits an opponent's graveyard, and its attacks force another discard.

RoleFinisher

The Master of Lake-town

HOBLegendary CreatureRare

3/2 deathtouch. Whenever a player loses life, that player mills that many cards, and damage is loss of life, so Syr Konrad pings, Torment iterations, and Pox all turn into mill. When it dies, draw a card for each graveyard with seven or more cards in it, which is every graveyard by turn 6 in this deck.

RolePayoff

The Raven Man

DMULegendary CreatureRare

2/1. A Bird every end step someone discarded, and , : each opponent discards. A repeatable engine with a clock attached.

RoleEngine

Tinybones, Bauble Burglar

FDNLegendary CreatureRare

1/3. Whenever an opponent discards a card, exile it from their graveyard with a stash counter, and during your turn you may play stashed cards with mana of any type. , : each opponent discards a card, sorcery speed only. Both his exile trigger and Tergrid's theft trigger fire on the same discard, so you order them: Burglar on the stack first, Tergrid on top, Tergrid resolves first and takes the permanent. Foundations borderless mana foil.

RolePayoff

Tinybones, Trinket Thief

SLDLegendary CreatureMythic

1/2. At the beginning of each end step, if an opponent discarded a card this turn, you draw a card and you lose 1 life. Mandatory, on every end step, so a full turn cycle with a discard enchantment out costs you 4 life and draws you 4 cards. : each opponent with no cards in hand loses 10 life, which is a real kill after Awaken the Erstwhile or a Mindslicer sacrifice. Secret Lair Bad to the Bones printing, traditional foil, art by Ryan Roadkill.

RolePayoff

Tourach, Dread Cantor

PLSTLegendary CreatureMythic

2/1 with protection from white that grows on every opponent discard. Kicked for , it rips two cards at random on entry.

RolePayoff

// Non-Legendary Creatures13 cards

Accursed Marauder

MH3CreatureCommon

2/1. Each player sacrifices a nontoken creature. A two-mana edict on a body.

RoleTheft

Archfiend of Depravity

FICCreatureRare

5/4 flyer. Each opponent end step, that player keeps up to two creatures and sacrifices the rest. Tergrid collects the rest.

RoleTheft

Bone Miser

C19CreatureRare

4/4. Waste Not for your own discards: Zombies, , and cards off the symmetric effects.

RolePayoff

Crypt Ghast

GTCCreatureRare

2/2 with extort. Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional . That doubles a basic Swamp, but on Cabal Coffers it is exactly one extra mana on the whole activation, not a doubling.

RoleRamp

Cunning Lethemancer

ALACreatureRare

2/2. Each of your upkeeps, every player discards. The same tax on a body.

RoleEngine

Demon's Disciple

ZNRCreatureUncommon

3/1. Everyone sacrifices a creature or planeswalker. Plaguecrafter's twin.

RoleTheft

Mindslicer

DMRCreatureRare

4/3. When it dies, every player discards their hand. With Tergrid out, every permanent card they pitch is yours.

RoleTheft

Morbid Opportunist

FICCreatureUncommon

1/3. Draws a card the first time creatures die each turn, and creatures die here constantly.

RoleDraw

Opposition Agent

CMRCreatureRare

3/2 with flash. You control your opponents while they search their libraries, and they exile each card they find, which you may then play with mana of any color. Flash it in response to a fetch land, a Demonic Tutor, or a Cultivate and take the card instead. The single best answer this deck has to a tutor-heavy pod. Game Changer.

RoleHate

Orcish Bowmasters

LTRCreatureRare

1/1 with flash. When it enters, and whenever an opponent draws a card other than the first one in their draw step, it deals 1 damage to any target and then amasses Orcs 1. Flash it in on a Rhystic Study or a Necropotence turn and it snowballs an Army while it kills the utility creatures the table leans on. Game Changer.

RoleHate

Phyrexian Obliterator

ONECreatureMythic

5/5 trample. Any source that damages it costs its controller that many permanents. Attacks, blocks, and feeds Tergrid either way.

RoleThreat

Plaguecrafter

J22CreatureUncommon

3/2. Everyone sacrifices a creature or planeswalker; whoever can't, discards. Either mode hands Tergrid a card.

RoleTheft

Reassembling Skeleton

SLDCreatureRare

1/1 that returns from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped for . The engine's fodder, forever, and a nontoken black creature, so it also pays the free cost on Flare of Malice. Secret Lair Bad to the Bones printing, traditional foil, art by Ryan Roadkill.

RoleRecursion

// Planeswalkers2 cards

Liliana of the Veil

DMULegendary PlaneswalkerMythic

. +1 symmetric discard every single turn, -2 edict. The cheapest repeatable engine in the deck.

RoleWalker

Liliana, Waker of the Dead

M21Legendary PlaneswalkerMythic

. +1 symmetric discard that drains empty hands, -3 scaling removal off a graveyard this deck fills fast.

RoleWalker

// Other Artifacts7 cards

Arcane Signet

SCDArtifactCommon

rock that taps for . On curve, always.

RoleRamp

Ashnod's Altar

CHRArtifactCommon

Sacrifice a creature: add . The engine's mana half: turns the Skeleton into colorless mana and death triggers on demand.

RoleOutlet

Fellwar Stone

TDCArtifactUncommon

rock; taps for whatever opponents' lands can make. In mono-black it is a second Signet.

RoleRamp

Geth's Grimoire

DSTArtifactUncommon

artifact. Draw a card whenever an opponent discards one. The engines turn it into a faucet.

RoleDraw

Mana Vault

2X2ArtifactMythic

artifact. : add . It does not untap during your untap step; pay at your upkeep to untap it, and while it is tapped at your draw step it deals 1 damage to you. Three mana off a one-drop puts Tergrid on the battlefield on turn 3. Game Changer.

RoleRamp

Sol Ring

LCCArtifactUncommon

. : Add . The format's standard two-mana head start.

RoleRamp

Wayfarer's Bauble

FICArtifactCommon

. , , sacrifice: fetch a basic onto the battlefield tapped. Pulls a foil Swamp and fixes the curve.

RoleRamp

// Instants6 cards

Deadly Dispute

MSCInstantCommon

instant. Sacrifice an artifact or creature: draw two plus a Treasure. Sac the Skeleton, keep everything.

RoleDraw

Flare of Malice

MH3InstantRare

instant, or free by sacrificing a nontoken black creature. Each opponent sacrifices their biggest creature or planeswalker.

RoleRemoval

Not Dead After All

WOEInstantCommon

Tergrid dies and comes back tapped with a Wicked Role attached. One-mana insurance against edicts and wraths.

RoleProtection

Sheoldred's Edict

PLSTInstantUncommon

modal edict: nontoken creature, creature token, or planeswalker. You pick the mode, they pick the victim, Tergrid picks it up.

RoleRemoval

Sudden Edict

MH2InstantUncommon

with split second. An edict nothing can respond to.

RoleRemoval

Vampiric Tutor

DMRInstantMythic

instant. Search your library for a card, shuffle, and put that card on top; you lose 2 life. The instant-speed half of the tutor package: hold it up, see what the table does, then set your next draw. Costs a card and 2 life, so point it at Torment of Hailfire, Cabal Coffers, or Dictate of Erebos, not at value. Game Changer.

RoleTutor

// Sorceries17 cards

Awaken the Erstwhile

RNASorceryRare

Everyone discards their whole hand and makes that many 2/2 Zombies. Their discarded permanents arrive on your side once Tergrid is out.

RoleDiscard

Death Cloud

PLSTSorceryRare

X life, X cards, X creatures, X lands from every player. The big symmetric reset, and Tergrid keeps the pieces.

RoleSweeper

Delirium Skeins

MM3SorceryCommon

Each player discards three. One-shot hand-shredder that dumps permanents into Tergrid range.

RoleDiscard

Demonic Tutor

3EDSorceryUncommon

: search your library for any card. The best tutor ever printed. Game Changer.

RoleTutor

Feed the Swarm

MICSorceryCommon

sorcery. Destroys a creature or enchantment for life equal to its mana value. Mono-black's enchantment answer.

RoleRemoval

Final Vengeance

DSKSorceryCommon

Sacrifice a creature or enchantment: exile target creature. The Skeleton becomes their best creature's exile.

RoleRemoval

Killing Wave

INRSorceryUncommon

Every creature lives only if its controller pays X life per body. They bleed or Tergrid inherits a board.

RoleSweeper

Mire in Misery

C19SorceryUncommon

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or enchantment. Cheap symmetric removal with enchantment reach.

RoleRemoval

Night's Whisper

FICSorceryCommon

: draw two, lose 2 life. Clean and cheap.

RoleDraw

Pox

5EDSorceryRare

Everyone loses a third of their life, hand, creatures, and lands, rounded up. Symmetric, disclosed at rule zero, and one-sided once Tergrid is out.

RoleSweeper

Pox Plague

SOSSorceryRare

Everyone loses half their life, hand, and permanents, rounded down. The biggest pox, and Tergrid collects the fallout.

RoleSweeper

Rankle's Prank

WOESorceryRare

, choose any number: everyone discards two, loses 4 life, sacrifices two creatures. All three modes feed the deck.

RoleSweeper

Raven's Crime

EVESorceryCommon

: target player discards. Retrace turns every dead land into another discard.

RoleDiscard

M13SorceryCommon

: target player draws two and loses 2. Usually you; occasionally aimed at someone at 2.

RoleDraw

Smallpox

DDRSorceryUncommon

Everyone loses 1 life, a card, a creature, and a land. A turn-two haymaker Tergrid later converts into theft.

RoleSweeper

Torment of Hailfire

HOUSorceryRare

X times: each opponent loses 3, sacrifices, or discards. Off Coffers, Urborg, and Crypt Ghast, X reaches seven-plus and ends the table. The primary finisher.

RoleFinisher

Worthy Cost

TDMSorceryCommon

Sacrifice a creature: exile target creature or planeswalker. One mana, permanent answer, Skeleton as postage.

RoleRemoval

// Enchantments7 cards

Bottomless Pit

SLDEnchantmentRare

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card at random. Random discard is the good kind here: it hits permanents, and permanents are what Tergrid steals. Secret Lair Bad to the Bones printing, traditional foil, art by Ryan Roadkill.

RoleEngine

Dictate of Erebos

JOUEnchantmentRare

with flash. Your creatures dying force every opponent to sacrifice one. The engine's trigger half, and with Tergrid their sacrifices change sides.

RoleTheft

Necrogen Mists

SLDEnchantmentRare

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player discards a card. The Pit without the randomness, so they pitch their worst card; still a discard every upkeep for the payoffs. Secret Lair Bad to the Bones printing, traditional foil, art by Ryan Roadkill.

RoleEngine

Necropotence

IMAEnchantmentMythic

Skip your draw step. Pay 1 life: exile the top card of your library face down, and put it into your hand at the beginning of your next end step. The deck's card engine, billed entirely to your life total. It also exiles every card you discard from your own graveyard, so with Necropotence out do not pitch Reassembling Skeleton or anything you meant to rebuy. Game Changer.

RoleDraw

Oppression

WOTEnchantmentRare

Every spell costs its caster a discard on top. Brutal with Tergrid watching for permanent cards.

RoleEngine

Painful Quandary

BROEnchantmentRare

Every opponent spell costs 5 life or a discard, and both modes feed this deck.

RolePayoff

Waste Not

WOTEnchantmentRare

Opponents' discards become Zombies, , or cards depending on type. Every engine trigger pays out.

RolePayoff

// Lands38 cards

Ancient Tomb

TMPLandLandUncommon

: Add and take 2 damage. Two mana off one land, the deck's only fast mana beside Sol Ring. Game Changer.

RoleUtility land

Bojuka Bog

EOCLandLandCommon

Enters tapped and exiles a graveyard on entry. Free graveyard hate for a deck that fills every yard.

RoleUtility land

Cabal Coffers

MH2LandLandMythic

, : Add for each Swamp you control. The Torment of Hailfire battery, absurd once Urborg is down.

RoleUtility land

Castle Locthwain

ELDLandLandRare

Untapped with a Swamp down. , : draw a card for life equal to your hand size. Card advantage in the land slot.

RoleUtility land

Malakir Rebirth

ZNRInstant // LandUncommon

instant. Target creature gains "when this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control"; you lose 2 life. Tergrid insurance first, a Plaguecrafter rebuy second. The back face, Malakir Mire, is a tapped land that taps for ; it is a plain Land, not a Swamp, so it does not count for Cabal Coffers.

RoleProtection

Phyrexian Tower

MH3LandLegendary LandMythic

Legendary land. : add . , sacrifice a creature: add . The free sacrifice outlet, and the reason the loop is mana-free: the it makes pays the Skeleton's rebuy exactly, where Ashnod's Altar's colorless always leaves you a black short.

RoleUtility land

Swamp x30

FINLandBasic LandCommon

Basic Swamp. The FINAL FANTASY full-art printing, art by Domenico Cava, all thirty foil.

RoleLand

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

M15LandLegendary LandRare

Legendary land. Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types, itself included. Cabal Coffers counts every land you control once Urborg is down, and no other nonbasic in this deck carries the Swamp subtype, so Urborg lands before the big Coffers activation.

RoleUtility land

Volrath's Stronghold

STHLandLegendary LandRare

Legendary land. : add . , : put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. Rebuys Mindslicer, Plaguecrafter, or a stolen creature the table answered, and it does it from a land slot so it survives every artifact and enchantment sweeper.

RoleUtility land

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100 CARDS.Bracket 4.

Tergrid, God of Fright, and the 99.

// Commander1 card

// Legendary Creatures9 cards

// Non-Legendary Creatures13 cards

// Planeswalkers2 cards

// Other Artifacts7 cards

// Instants6 cards

// Sorceries17 cards

// Enchantments7 cards

// Lands38 cards

Cards that come in or out.