Grixis discard deck: a swarm of evasive Specters and Crosis in the air connect for combat damage and strip opponents' hands, while a suite of "whenever an opponent discards" payoffs turns every discarded card into life loss, card draw, tokens, or stolen resources. Crosis is the capstone threat: each connection lets it pay {2}{B} to name a color and wipe out every card of that color from the damaged player's revealed hand. Telepathy helps it pick the color. Once hands are empty, empty-hand punishers drain opponents each upkeep. How it wins: Opponents lose life to repeated discard-triggered pings and empty-hand upkeep drains, while flying Specters, a growing Haunt of Hightower, and Crosis finish them in combat. Key roles: - Specter air force: Cheap evasive fliers whose combat damage forces discards. Each hit also fuels the payoff engines, and Crosis's color-named purge is the biggest hit of all. (Hypnotic Specter, Sedraxis Specter, Doomsday Specter) - Discard punishers: Enchantments and creatures that make each discarded card cost the opponent life. These turn the discard pressure into the main damage source. (Megrim, Liliana's Caress, Raiders' Wake) - Empty-hand lock: Once hands are stripped, these cards drain opponents every upkeep and grow threats that care about empty hands. (Shrieking Affliction, Quest for the Nihil Stone, Bandit's Talent) - Discard value engines: These convert opponents' discards into cards, mana, tokens, or stolen permanents and spells, so the deck pulls ahead on resources. (Waste Not, Geth's Grimoire, Tergrid, God of Fright) - Mass discard bursts: Spells and effects that strip several cards at once, including wheels that trigger the punishers many times in one go. (Windfall, Skull Rend, Cruel Ultimatum) - Getting the hits through: Equipment and unblockability keep the commander and Specters safe and connecting. (Whispersilk Cloak, Lightning Greaves, Rogue's Passage)

Crosis, the Purger decklist

• Arcane Signet
• Commander's Sphere
• Dimir Signet
• Geth's Grimoire
• Izzet Signet
• Lightning Greaves
• Rakdos Signet
• Sol Ring
• Swiftfoot Boots
• Talisman of Dominance
• Whispersilk Cloak
• Blood Crypt
• Bojuka Bog
• Command Tower
• Crosis's Catacombs
• Crumbling Necropolis
• Dragonskull Summit
• Drowned Catacomb
• Exotic Orchard
• Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 6× Island
• 5× Mountain
• Reliquary Tower
• Rogue's Passage
• Smoldering Marsh
• Steam Vents
• Sulfur Falls
• Sunken Hollow
• 8× Swamp
• Watery Grave
• Xander's Lounge
• Abyssal Specter
• Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead
• Blazing Specter
• Blizzard Specter
• Dimir Cutpurse
• Doomsday Specter
• Fell Specter
• Guul Draz Specter
• Hypnotic Specter
• Liliana's Specter
• Nightscape Familiar
• Nightveil Specter
• Sangromancer
• Scythe Specter
• Sedraxis Specter
• Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
• The Haunt of Hightower
• The Raven Man
• Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
• Tourach, Dread Cantor
• Urgoros, the Empty One
• Bandit's Talent
• Liliana's Caress
• Megrim
• Painful Quandary
• Quest for the Nihil Stone
• Raiders' Wake
• Shrieking Affliction
• Telepathy
• Waste Not
• Bedevil
• Chaos Warp
• Counterspell
• Crosis's Charm
• Dark Ritual
• Dream Salvage
• Negate
• Perplex
• Rakdos Charm
• Recoil
• Terminate
• Angrath, the Flame-Chained
• Blasphemous Act
• Blightning
• Cruel Ultimatum
• Dark Deal
• Feed the Swarm
• Reanimate
• Skull Rend
• Syphon Mind
• Whispering Madness
• Windfall