Remember Everyone: “Once the triggered ability resolves, the ability will continue until you either exile a nonland card with converted mana cost 3 or less or fail to exile any nonland cards while performing the process. You can’t choose to stop receiving the blessings of Demonlord Belzenlok any sooner.”
He was an old fart, but the "most powerful demon" was said to be Withengar, but the fact that we can never see the demons fight interplanetary means we might never know.
@@crimansizers5840 We can't be for sure, so far, of Ob Nix's age. He found the Chain Veil and that could have been a while ago... The Chain Veil is very old, but I don't know if it goes back to Ur-Dragon days, but it might! We probably get that answer when they develop more story for Shandalar & the "Raven Man."
I just built a Johnny, Combo Player deck with Thassa's Oracle, Leveler and 97 islands, and now you put out basically the same deck but in my favorite color. Looks like I'm making a second OTK deck.
97 lands the deck you're describing makes no sense, how do you find anything with just lands in hand? Luck turn 23? not much of a Johnny more like a hope to be lucky.
Ever since Belzenlok was released I've wanted an Elder Demon Highlander deck, now I can build it! Thanks for turning a terrible commander into a terrific highlander!
My main issue with combo decks in general is that they lose their fun factor pretty quickly, which is why it's great seeing low budget builds for them. You do the Lord's work in deck building, Mitch.
Mitch: "so one could build a belzenlok deck that have all cards costing more than 3 mana and actually die in the process. This would be really janky hahaha...unless...?"
If someone comes at my table, says that they have a budget deck and then comboes out in a convoluted way (like this one)... i will congratulate them and have SO MUCH FUN watching them doing what they need to do!
Is he using Mikaeus and Triskelion or going infinite with Necrotic Ooze? I personally use Mike and Trike but apparently the Ooze combo is more resilient.
As I have a good portion of the deck already, I'm stoke to build for the next time I get play commander with my group! I always wanted to have a conplicated deck to pilot and you gave me the perfect deck possible. Thanks Mitch!
I was gonna build a different budget deck of yours, but this is my favorite deck you've made so far. 72 lands is ridiculous. And I absolutely love it. I am really exited to see what other jank you can come up with
You are right about Carrion Howler. By paying its cost, you put the ability "Carrion Howler get +2/-1" onto the stack and you can always hold priority after putting a spell or an ability on the stack to do something else. Since the ability hasn't resolved yet, you can do it again, over and over, until you put that ability onto the stack any amount of times you want to.
Basically . When it comes to winning. But there’s a lot of variables Mitch isn’t covering in tactics 6-9. Counter magic, boros beats, opposing discard effects, etc. but overall like most combo decks, as long as you get your mana rocks out early and the opponents don’t counter them or strip mine away your land fetch lands, it’s magic solitaire 🎃🤖 pretty cool deck for $50✌️
As awesome as this deck is, i doubt its long-term usefulness. ;-) It will be banned from any casual table because of its sheer power, but to be viable in cEDH it seems a bit too vulnerable. Typical glass cannon. ^^ But I love how Mitch manages to turn jank into gold time and again! 👏🏻
@@hoppeltrottel7484 I disagree. It will find its place in local game stores, since there are people who do build some serious power decks that ARENT good in cEDH
For many years I've been teaching my friends the power of Skirge Familiar with great success. Most of them have learned to fear it and a few others have begun using it ever since. Easily one of the best cards in the game.
Okay, I've been playing this deck for about a year now and I feel like the combo I play is a hell of a lot easier. You discard five cards to Skirge Familiar 2 of them being Mikeus and Trikelion, and then cast Living Death, and you know the rest.
This card was my first mythic that I ever pulled. What makes it even better is that it was foil. It's been sitting around for a while but I think I might have a use for it now
So, I'm pretty new and a lot of my friends play powerful EDH, I built your Child of Alara/Gates Deck, found more not-so-budget-friendly cards, bought a couple, traded away my foil borderless demonic tutor for quite a few others, and am still not winning. A lot of them go infinite turns/infinite draw/infinite Mana by like turn 10-12, and I'm buying this, keeping quiet, and pulling it out to surprise everyone. I hope this works. Thank you, love watching your videos.
YAY, FINALLY BELZENLOK ONESHOT! I love this deck. It is some kind of strange one-shot semi-competetive combo deck and this is the lite version of this :D
Recently I fell in love with my Niv Reborn deck. Just having him enter the battlefield and just refill my hand. Now that i found out I like commanders like that. I really want to build this commander. And this combo looks really fun. X.z
Came here for ideas on how to ramp while limiting my CmC to 4 or greater. Because I'm building Kaalia, and thought Belzenlok would be fun to get value from. Was not disappointed!
A combo deck without blue? Is there any way to protect the combo? To clarify: I can see this deck destroying friendships in a more casual meta, but doing nothing when your opponents play enough interaction in their decks. Or am I wrong?
I think lotus field would be a good fit too. With as many lands as you run it should be worth the risk and it seems like it could a great way to lay in the cut since there aren't many ways to abuse it in mono black. I also really like Demonlord Belzenlock. I played him in my Jodah big stuff deck. I usually drew like 12 cards of him. Hilarious. Great deck teck! Also, Kevin; Take a breath bud. Its a marathon, not a race.
Magus of the mirror and soul conduit are solid includes on the cheap and kind of a backup strategy just in case you lose too much life and don't have repay in kind
I love how this and your Maelstorm Wanderer decks were essentially "alright, that seems like enough lands. I feel like I'm forgetting something... Oh shit, I forgot the combo pieces. Well, let's toss something in the pot and see what boils." A.K.A. land tribal.
I play a DLB deck that is VERY similar to this list, and is borderline cEDH ( it wins turn 4 pretty much 80-90% of the time ). There are 4 key cards I would recommend adding if anyone wants to power up the deck. 1) Either of the Eldrazi GY shufflers. 2) Gary 3) Crypt Ghast 4) Whip of Erebos
So I literally have this Deck. Like same idea same concept. I just want to let everyone know 2 things. Its fun the first 2 or 3 times and then its meh. But also once you show people you have this deck. You are going to get targeted down first and fast so you cant cast Belzenlok EVERYTIME. Just 2 things to keep in mind before you spend money on this
Very interesting wind condition.but I would assume that after you play this deck a couple times in your play group they will catch on to this tactic and what if somebody counterspells one of your key pieces? Are you screwed for the rest of the game?
Have an idea for a "free* summons" deck with cards that let your opponents bring cards from hand to field w/o cost (Tempting Wurm, Hunted Wumpus), but also control cards (Lavinia, Azorius Renegade) to prevent it. Any advice?
I just joined a league and only have a janky mono red aggro deck and a vito gain life opp lose life deck but was wondering how you vets feel about demon tribals? Can they win or is it too risky?
Yeah, my favorite color to play in EDH is Mono-Black, and 'Elder Demon' is so damn cool. Just personally not interested in this kinda build cause it's the kinda thing that like, it's either a win-pretty-much-the-same-way strategy or lose-cause-countered.
I am pretty sure it is way more fun to build this deck, to learn how the combo goes and maybe play it out ones or twice. Sadly after this, I guess for most people it will become boring quite fast.
Number one: scary fucking deck... I love it so much! Number 2: if someone wanted to upgrade the deck and had the means I'd suggest adding sanguine bond, exquisite blood, and Krark's thumb.
compilcated deck suprised ad nauseam is not a reasonable upgrade since its a alternative to belzenlock but even more risky heck you can get even more mana from the skirge that way
this is probably the most complicated deck you have ever made mitch lol
Golos as a whole is a headache with the complexity.
You had me at "72 lands"
Remember Everyone: “Once the triggered ability resolves, the ability will continue until you either exile a nonland card with converted mana cost 3 or less or fail to exile any nonland cards while performing the process. You can’t choose to stop receiving the blessings of Demonlord Belzenlok any sooner.”
Amazing. Love it when they do this with the rulings
Knowing that he was around during early Nicol B / elder dragon war years, makes him the oldest canon demon.
He was an old fart, but the "most powerful demon" was said to be Withengar, but the fact that we can never see the demons fight interplanetary means we might never know.
isn't ob nix older?
@@Alikaoz I thought it would be Ob Nix.
@@crimansizers5840
We can't be for sure, so far, of Ob Nix's age.
He found the Chain Veil and that could have been a while ago...
The Chain Veil is very old, but I don't know if it goes back to Ur-Dragon days, but it might!
We probably get that answer when they develop more story for Shandalar & the "Raven Man."
isn't gix older (gix was around during the fall of the thran empire, and before yawgmoth took over phyrexia)
I was not prepared for this.
But that’s Tactic #1.
@@MekanikKommandoh88 and #2.
I just built a Johnny, Combo Player deck with Thassa's Oracle, Leveler and 97 islands, and now you put out basically the same deck but in my favorite color.
Looks like I'm making a second OTK deck.
Tuxedo Tom shouldn’t you use mana severance instead?
@@Aphidae see, I would have if I knew it existed two weeks ago.
97 lands the deck you're describing makes no sense, how do you find anything with just lands in hand? Luck turn 23? not much of a Johnny more like a hope to be lucky.
@@AndukeMTGEDH the commander is the uncard 'Johnny, Combo player'. who lets you tutor.
I LOVE your combo decks.
And btw, level 1 judge here, the carrion howler operation is legal. Great work.
Ever since Belzenlok was released I've wanted an Elder Demon Highlander deck, now I can build it! Thanks for turning a terrible commander into a terrific highlander!
My main issue with combo decks in general is that they lose their fun factor pretty quickly, which is why it's great seeing low budget builds for them. You do the Lord's work in deck building, Mitch.
Mitch: "so one could build a belzenlok deck that have all cards costing more than 3 mana and actually die in the process. This would be really janky hahaha...unless...?"
That is one of the coolest builds I have ever seen.
Mitch..... you are a content KING my guy!
Love the new layout showing how the cards work when playing then!
Belzenlok is the spiciest commander. I knew this deck tech wouldn't disappoint.
okay. this seems like one of those "you do it once and you'll never get to do it again" type of deck. i love it.. you got a new sub.
I love how in depth you did this deck
The spice is strong with this one...
Absolutely fantastic deck tech! I dont know if I'd ever play it but a very cool deck regardless.
If someone comes at my table, says that they have a budget deck and then comboes out in a convoluted way (like this one)... i will congratulate them and have SO MUCH FUN watching them doing what they need to do!
Beautiful... absolutely beautiful. You forge decks with masterful, arcane skill my dude. May your baubles always fare your way
A friend of mine has a deck like this. I don't remember the exact combo he uses but the key pieces are the same.
Is he using Mikaeus and Triskelion or going infinite with Necrotic Ooze? I personally use Mike and Trike but apparently the Ooze combo is more resilient.
@@JCave-br8ss I've only ever seen him play it once, I don't remember what his wincon was, unfortunately. I think it might've been M&T.
Really appreciated the combo explanation :)
Spiciest build yet, Mitch! I love it!
As I have a good portion of the deck already, I'm stoke to build for the next time I get play commander with my group! I always wanted to have a conplicated deck to pilot and you gave me the perfect deck possible. Thanks Mitch!
I’m just waiting what will happen when I build this deck and use it in my commander group.
I was gonna build a different budget deck of yours, but this is my favorite deck you've made so far. 72 lands is ridiculous. And I absolutely love it. I am really exited to see what other jank you can come up with
Ouch. Think I burned my mouth with all this spice 😉
Really cool deck Mitch!
You are right about Carrion Howler. By paying its cost, you put the ability "Carrion Howler get +2/-1" onto the stack and you can always hold priority after putting a spell or an ability on the stack to do something else. Since the ability hasn't resolved yet, you can do it again, over and over, until you put that ability onto the stack any amount of times you want to.
Damn I don't even know what to think about this deck it's so cool. Feels like this could even become a competitive level deck
So basically we're playing magic-solitaire?
Basically . When it comes to winning. But there’s a lot of variables Mitch isn’t covering in tactics 6-9. Counter magic, boros beats, opposing discard effects, etc. but overall like most combo decks, as long as you get your mana rocks out early and the opponents don’t counter them or strip mine away your land fetch lands, it’s magic solitaire 🎃🤖 pretty cool deck for $50✌️
As awesome as this deck is, i doubt its long-term usefulness. ;-)
It will be banned from any casual table because of its sheer power, but to be viable in cEDH it seems a bit too vulnerable. Typical glass cannon. ^^
But I love how Mitch manages to turn jank into gold time and again! 👏🏻
@@hoppeltrottel7484 I disagree. It will find its place in local game stores, since there are people who do build some serious power decks that ARENT good in cEDH
For many years I've been teaching my friends the power of Skirge Familiar with great success. Most of them have learned to fear it and a few others have begun using it ever since. Easily one of the best cards in the game.
This is a really creative and cool combo deck. Kudos!
Okay, I've been playing this deck for about a year now and I feel like the combo I play is a hell of a lot easier.
You discard five cards to Skirge Familiar 2 of them being Mikeus and Trikelion, and then cast Living Death, and you know the rest.
Jake C. Mikaeus ain’t budget though but that definitely is a way easier combo. The price you pay for budget is a whole lot of thinking.
@@kuro_nogazaki The simplicity is worth the 20 bucks
That's how mine does it too and it's so much easier.
I like expectation subverting decks like this. This much spice at almost 50$ is one heck of a deal.
This card was my first mythic that I ever pulled. What makes it even better is that it was foil. It's been sitting around for a while but I think I might have a use for it now
This is probably one of the coolest deck I've ever seen, I want to build it so bad
So, I'm pretty new and a lot of my friends play powerful EDH, I built your Child of Alara/Gates Deck, found more not-so-budget-friendly cards, bought a couple, traded away my foil borderless demonic tutor for quite a few others, and am still not winning. A lot of them go infinite turns/infinite draw/infinite Mana by like turn 10-12, and I'm buying this, keeping quiet, and pulling it out to surprise everyone. I hope this works. Thank you, love watching your videos.
Did it work? I'm curious
The title is very scary 😱
When you just browsing youtube and you somehow completely forget a video like this exists. ‘72 lands’ made me check this again ha
YAY, FINALLY BELZENLOK ONESHOT! I love this deck. It is some kind of strange one-shot semi-competetive combo deck and this is the lite version of this :D
Recently I fell in love with my Niv Reborn deck. Just having him enter the battlefield and just refill my hand. Now that i found out I like commanders like that. I really want to build this commander. And this combo looks really fun. X.z
I'm instantly building this deck
Came here for ideas on how to ramp while limiting my CmC to 4 or greater.
Because I'm building Kaalia, and thought Belzenlok would be fun to get value from.
Was not disappointed!
Thanxs this is awesome, I think I'll make it but modify it to use living death to summon a hoard of massive demons
Crazy combos that players make like this are so impressive to a goblin-brained player like me lol. Impressive tech Mitch!
A combo deck without blue? Is there any way to protect the combo?
To clarify: I can see this deck destroying friendships in a more casual meta, but doing nothing when your opponents play enough interaction in their decks. Or am I wrong?
I do love me some budget commander combos!!
Oh wow I remeber seeing this deck being played before and knew it was bound to come here . Guess today's that day
belzenlock is a pretty cool commander
I think lotus field would be a good fit too. With as many lands as you run it should be worth the risk and it seems like it could a great way to lay in the cut since there aren't many ways to abuse it in mono black.
I also really like Demonlord Belzenlock. I played him in my Jodah big stuff deck. I usually drew like 12 cards of him. Hilarious.
Great deck teck!
Also, Kevin; Take a breath bud. Its a marathon, not a race.
Just a not for non budget: you can also combo with triskelion and mikaus the unhallowed
Magus of the mirror and soul conduit are solid includes on the cheap and kind of a backup strategy just in case you lose too much life and don't have repay in kind
I love how this and your Maelstorm Wanderer decks were essentially "alright, that seems like enough lands. I feel like I'm forgetting something...
Oh shit, I forgot the combo pieces.
Well, let's toss something in the pot and see what boils." A.K.A. land tribal.
I don't need a fourth mono-black commander, but this is hilarious.
I have been pretty janky with my krrik led demon tribal commander but I'm thinking of ob nixilis unshackled instead
I play a DLB deck that is VERY similar to this list, and is borderline cEDH ( it wins turn 4 pretty much 80-90% of the time ). There are 4 key cards I would recommend adding if anyone wants to power up the deck.
1) Either of the Eldrazi GY shufflers.
2) Gary
3) Crypt Ghast
4) Whip of Erebos
So I literally have this Deck.
Like same idea same concept. I just want to let everyone know 2 things. Its fun the first 2 or 3 times and then its meh.
But also once you show people you have this deck. You are going to get targeted down first and fast so you cant cast Belzenlok EVERYTIME.
Just 2 things to keep in mind before you spend money on this
Fun deck tech, has everything i like, black mana and demons. Do a budget Pramikon deck tech.
Combo deck, love it.
I have a deck like this with but helmed by Merelen of the Morning for an ad nauseum combo
Very interesting wind condition.but I would assume that after you play this deck a couple times in your play group they will catch on to this tactic and what if somebody counterspells one of your key pieces? Are you screwed for the rest of the game?
I HAVE THIS DECK!! LOL that's awesome. been playing it a long time, it's quite a spectacle!
I never knew that belzonlock could combo it is so cool
Another brilliant build
You planning on making a storm deck Mitch?
More demons? Like Vilis, broker of blood? Or other demons?
Have an idea for a "free* summons" deck with cards that let your opponents bring cards from hand to field w/o cost (Tempting Wurm, Hunted Wumpus), but also control cards (Lavinia, Azorius Renegade) to prevent it. Any advice?
Convoluted. I like it !
I just joined a league and only have a janky mono red aggro deck and a vito gain life opp lose life deck but was wondering how you vets feel about demon tribals? Can they win or is it too risky?
Despite price, would Ancient Tomb be a good upgrade?
I feel like this is just a fantastic way to set up Triskadecaphobia.
Sweet combo. I think Whip of Erebos is a reasonable upgrade over Deadly Wanderings.
I’m kinda confused, what do you do if your opponent doesn’t have a forest?
same here
So April 1st is coming around the corner, and I was thinking...
Wayfarer's Bauble Commander deck tech?
Always wanted a tech on Belzenlock
Yeah, my favorite color to play in EDH is Mono-Black, and 'Elder Demon' is so damn cool. Just personally not interested in this kinda build cause it's the kinda thing that like, it's either a win-pretty-much-the-same-way strategy or lose-cause-countered.
are the Urza Tron lands a good fit for this?
The next mostly lands deck i want to see a tech on is Jolrael, empress of beasts
What the actual insanity was that combo... jesus
this deck looks super crazy, but it might be fun xD
Doesn't belzenlok effectively mill you out, or am I missing something?
wouldnt it be simplier to just get that 60mana and cast exsanguinate? :D
I am pretty sure it is way more fun to build this deck, to learn how the combo goes and maybe play it out ones or twice. Sadly after this, I guess for most people it will become boring quite fast.
Wouldn't Dark Sphere be helpful in this?
I love this deck
Hello ^^ I know I’m not a partreon or anything but if you could do a sydrie calvanic genius deck it would make me really happy
Number one: scary fucking deck... I love it so much!
Number 2: if someone wanted to upgrade the deck and had the means I'd suggest adding sanguine bond, exquisite blood, and Krark's thumb.
I want to play this deck, but in my group there is a 100% chance I will never pull off this combo in my play group
Devilishly good. I want it.
So what is the price with only swamps
Mitch.... You are an evil genius.....
Literally.
Yes, we all can just see play with power episode with this deck))
compilcated deck
suprised ad nauseam is not a reasonable upgrade since its a alternative to belzenlock but even more risky heck you can get even more mana from the skirge that way
Neat Combo!
Can’t you only get up to 21 cards with belzenlok because of commander damage?
Yes, you can pay life to activate it again since it uses the stack
I would love to see a deck for Nebuchadnezzar!
So basically black godo?
I literally met who built this exact deck yesterday but without a budget.... wtf what a coincidence
1 question. How do you not lose to self milling
you win in 1 turn after drawing all your cards from belzenlok
Counterspell
I think i actually might have to build this deck