Braids, Cabal Minion

Braids, Cabal Minion is a punishing stax piece that turns everyone's resources into fuel for sacrifice effects. Your game plan is to leverage the forced sacrifices—yours included—as an engine. Since you're in mono-black, you'll want to fill your deck with creatures that benefit from dying (aristocrats), sacrifice outlets, and recursion so you can rebuy creatures and turn each upkeep into incremental value. You can also lean into symmetrical discard and destruction effects that hurt opponents more than you since you're built to capitalize on the mayhem.

The deck wins through a combination of incremental damage and attrition. You'll chip away with Braids herself while grinding opponents down via card advantage from death triggers, reanimation loops, and sacrifice synergies. Some builds include combo lines with cards like Viscera Seer and looping creatures, but the core game is softer: outlast your opponents by turning their forced sacrifices into your advantage. It's a grindy, political deck that punishes greedy plays and rewards careful sequencing.

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