Whisper, Blood Liturgist EDH (EDH / Commander)

I’ve really enjoyed playing this deck so far. I love graveyard shenanigans and I wanted to make an EDH deck for each color, so when Dominaria came out, Whisper caught my eye. The deck is really fun to play, though it is definitely on the casual side.

The goal of the deck is to quickly get some big bombs in your graveyard and then use Whisper (or other abilities) to reanimate them from your graveyard. Buried Alive is one of the key cards to pull this off. With it you can move a Razaketh, Grave Titan and Bloodghast to your graveyard for example and then you can constantly reanimate Bloodghast when playing lands and sacrifice him along another recurring creature like Nether Traitor or Reassembling Skeleton to get Razaketh or another bomb on the field and use them to your advantage.

Otherwise the deck consists of a lot of token generators (Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder, Rite of Belzenlok, Noosegraf Mob), discard/self-mill effects (Call the Bloodline, Geier Reach Sanitarium, Doom Whisperer), sacrifice outlets (Ashnod’s Altar, Smothering Abomination, Phyrexian Tower) and death trigger effects that can help you win the game (Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Dictate of Erebos).

Torment of Hailfire and Liliana’s Contract are two of the alternative win conditions in the deck, even though they are usually not played as win conditions and more just for the additional value. Torment of Hailfire is one of the few cards black has access to that can get rid of artifacts and enchantments and Liliana’s Contract draws four cards (usually if you have four demons out, you are in a winning position already).

The deck includes a lot of tutor effects, so it definitely helps to know your strategy and deck well enough to tutor for the right cards, but it also means you can adapt to a lot of situations.