K'rrik lets every black mana symbol be paid with 2 life instead of mana, and grows with each black spell cast. The deck leans on that to chain cheap black spells, ritual mana and a huge number of tutors into explosive turns while life total acts as a second resource. Life loss is then converted into card advantage, reanimated threats and a lethal finisher. How it wins: It drains or burns the table out with life-swing finishers like Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Exsanguinate, Tendrils of Agony and Aetherflux Reservoir, or assembles a combo such as Peer into the Abyss with Bloodletter of Aclazotz to make an opponent lose the game. Key cards: - Life-for-value engines: Vilis, Broker of Blood and Necropotence turn paid life into cards, which powers the pay-life-for-mana plan. - Tutors: Demonic Tutor and Vampiric Tutor are black spells that find the finisher or combo piece and each add a K'rrik counter. - Rituals and sacrifice mana: Dark Ritual and Cabal Ritual let a hand of cheap black spells chain into a lethal storm turn. - Reanimation: Reanimate and Animate Dead, fueled by Entomb and Buried Alive, put a big threat onto the battlefield early. - Drain finishers: Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Tendrils of Agony close the game by draining the table.

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth decklist

• Aetherflux Reservoir
• Animate Dead
• Arcane Signet
• Asmodeus the Archfiend
• Beseech the Queen
• Bitter Triumph
• Blood Celebrant
• Blood Pet
• Bloodletter of Aclazotz
• Bojuka Bog
• Bolas's Citadel
• Bubbling Muck
• Buried Alive
• Cabal Ritual
• Chain of Smog
• Chainer, Dementia Master
• Consuming Corruption
• Crypt Ghast
• Crystal Vein
• Culling the Weak
• Dark Ritual
• Demonic Counsel
• Demonic Tutor
• Diabolic Tutor
• Dimir House Guard
• Dismember
• Entomb
• Exhume
• Exsanguinate
• Feed the Swarm
• Final Parting
• Font of Agonies
• Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• Grim Servant
• Heartless Summoning
• Hoarding Broodlord
• Infernal Grasp
• Insatiable Avarice
• Jet Medallion
• Mastermind's Acquisition
• Muraganda Raceway
• Necropotence
• Necrotic Ooze
• Not Dead After All
• Overeager Apprentice
• Peat Bog
• Peer into the Abyss
• Professor Onyx
• Radiant Fountain
• Reanimate
• Reliquary Tower
• Sacrifice
• Saw in Half
• Sensei's Divining Top
• Sign in Blood
• Skirge Familiar
• Snuff Out
• Sol Ring
• Soldevi Adnate
• Songs of the Damned
• Stitch Together
• 27× Swamp
• Tendrils of Agony
• The Grey Havens
• Toxic Deluge
• Undying Malice
• Vampiric Tutor
• Victimize
• Vile Entomber
• Vilis, Broker of Blood
• Viscera Seer
• Widow-Making Infiltrator
• Wishclaw Talisman
• Yahenni, Undying Partisan