Kroxa, Painful Discard

Commander / EDH BR (Rakdos) Discard Multiplayer

AEVA

Lands (37)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Canyon Slough
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Foreboding Ruins
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Haunted Ridge
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 8x Mountain
• 1x Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace
• 1x Sanctum of Eternity
• 1x Shadowblood Ridge
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 11x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Peak
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

Targeted Removal (8)

• 1x Ashes to Ashes
• 1x Bedevil
• 1x Black Sun's Twilight
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Infernal Grasp
• 1x Kolaghan's Command
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Vandalblast

Ramp (4)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence

Creature (18)

• 1x Asylum Visitor
• 1x Burglar Rat
• 1x Cunning Lethemancer
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Elderfang Disciple
• 1x Elvish Doomsayer
• 1x Fell Specter
• 1x Liliana's Specter
• 1x Nezumi Informant
• 1x Rotting Rats
• 1x Sangromancer
• 1x The Haunt of Hightower
• 1x The Raven Man
• 1x Tinybones, Trinket Thief
• 1x Tourach, Dread Cantor
• 1x Virus Beetle
• 1x Worldgorger Dragon
• 1x Zoyowa Lava-Tongue

Card Draw (8)

• 1x Cathartic Pyre
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Thrill of Possibility
• 1x Tome of Legends

Kroxa Triggers (7)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Call to the Netherworld
• 1x Claim / Fame
• 1x Goryo's Vengeance
• 1x Inscription of Ruin
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Reanimate

Commander (1)

Strategic Enablers (16)

• 1x Arterial Flow
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Court of Ambition
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Necrogen Mists
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Pain Magnification
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Quest for the Nihil Stone
• 1x Raiders' Wake
• 1x Shrieking Affliction
• 1x Tasigur's Cruelty
• 1x Unnerve
• 1x Waste Not

Boardwipe (1)

• 1x Damnation

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Maybeboard

Other (3)

• 1x Augur of Skulls
• 1x Ill-Gotten Gains
• 1x Shallow Grave

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LAST UPDATE: 11/05/2024

PRIMER

When I saw Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger, I knew I had to build a Commander deck based on replaying it almost every turn. Plus, it was a great opportunity for me to explore the {B}{R} color combination which was outside of my typical golgari approach.
The idea behind this deck was to rapidly be able to make all of my opponents discard their hand, mainly with playing/reanimating Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger, but also with asymetrical cards like Unnerve and Tasigur's Cruelty. Support cards like Liliana's Caress, Raiders' Wake, Painful Quandary and Megrim drain our opponents for each sacrifice trigger.
I also included Worldgorger Dragon in the deck since I already had Animate Dead as a wincon. However, I didn't include any tutors in the deck as it wasn't the purpose I wanted of the deck to just fetch the combo. Enjoy.

DECK OBJECTIVES

1- Use asymetrical discard triggers to rapidly empty my opponents hands to gain advantage
2- Reanimate Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger as many times as possible in early turns to fit objective ''1''
3- Punish my opponents for discarding cards and/or having no cards in hands
4- HaveWorldgorger Dragon's infinite combo as possible wincon, without optimizing it's usage with tutors

KPI DASHBOARD (09/04/2023)

1. Average Mulligans Required: 0,44
2. Turn Strategy Online: 4,67
3. Turn of Land Miss: 7,56
4. Turn Hand Emptied: 8,56
5. Average Kroxa triggers by turn 6: 2,67
6. Average opponent discard triggers by turn 6: 4,00

COMBO

Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger + Animate Dead + Worldgorger Dragon
Result: Infinite mana, infinite Kroxa ETB triggers, infinite Kroxa casts. This is an infiniate loop unless there is another target for Animate Dead/Dance of the Dead or a way to remove it.
Set Up: Worldgorger Dragon in graveyard. Animate Dead/Dance of the Dead in hand. available. Kroxa on the battlefield for infinite ETB triggers or in the CZ to cast infinite times.
Steps:
1.Cast Animate Dead/Dance of the Dead for {1}{B}, targeting Worldgorger Dragon in your graveyard
2.Worldgorger Dragon enters the battlefield, exiling all other permanents you control
3.Animate Dead triggers, sacrificing Worldgorger Dragon
4.All permanents exiled with Worldgorger Dragon enter the battlefield - Kroxa triggers go on the stack
5.Target Worldgorger Dragon with Animate Dead
6.Maintaining priority, tap all lands you control
7.Let the triggers resolve
Repeat steps 2-7.

PILOTING THE DECK

OPENING HAND
Ideally have a hand that has 3 lands, a 2 CMC or less creature and a reanimator spell for Kroxa.
GENERAL PACING OF DECK
This type of ''oppressive'' deck isn't for everyone. The idea is to force several Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger triggers in the first few turns to gain significant cards in hand advantage over our opponents and somewhat ''stalemate'' the game. Then play enablers cards to accentuate damage.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	6 minutes
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 19 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.56
Tokens	Bird 1/1 B, Monarch Emblem, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Optimized Decks (06/05/2023), Standard, Fun decks