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Braids, Arisen Nightmare
Legendary Creature — Nightmare
At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.
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“Sacrifice fodder to tax opponents and draw cards—slow grind to inevitable value.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Commander damage, Attrition
Sacrifice, Tokens, Aristocrats
Strategy
Braids, Arisen Nightmare is a political sacrifice engine that punishes opponents for keeping permanents. Your game plan is to build a deck full of expendable permanents—tokens, cheap artifacts, enchantments, and lands—then sacrifice them at end step to force opponents into a choice: match your sacrifice or lose life and watch you draw cards. This creates a slow but inevitable value grind where you either chip away at their health or bury them in card advantage.
The deck thrives in a midrange shell with token generators and sacrifice outlets. Cards like Bitterblossom, Reassembling Skeleton, and Liliana's Standard Bearer give you endless fodder, while Zulaport Cutthroat and Viscera Seer turn sacrifices into extra value. You're not trying to win fast—you're winning by attrition, drawing into answers while your opponents bleed out or run out of permanents to sacrifice. Games feel grindy but rewarding, and Braids forces the table to respect your threat even when she's just sitting there.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip expensive planeswalkers and use token-makers like Bitterblossom, Young Witch, and Doomed Traveler instead; grab budget sacrifice outlets like Viscera Seer and Cartel Aristocrat over pricey lands.
Most-Played Cards
Ichor Wellspring
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
Ophiomancer
Reassembling Skeleton
Prized Statue
Treacherous Blessing
Bloodghast
Mycosynth Wellspring
Dreadhorde Invasion
Gixian Puppeteer
Zulaport Cutthroat
Bastion of Remembrance
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