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Legendary Creature — Snake Cleric Warlock
{T}, Sacrifice another creature or an artifact: For each opponent, you mill a card, then return that card from your graveyard to your hand unless that player pays 3 life. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.) Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
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“Sacrifice fodder fuels a grindy mill-recursion engine that bleeds opponents.”
Sivriss is a creature-sacrifice engine that doubles as a mill-and-recursion tool. Each time you tap and sacrifice a creature or artifact, you mill one card per opponent and potentially recoup those cards by making each opponent pay 3 life. This creates a slow, grindy game plan where you're filling your graveyard with useful spells while pressuring life totals—most opponents won't pay repeatedly, so you effectively draw cards for free. The deck thrives on creatures and artifacts that want to die, like small tokens, dorks, and sacrifice fodder.
You'll pair Sivriss with sacrifice outlets and token generators to create a steady stream of triggers. Cards that create multiple bodies—Bitterblossom, Ophiomancer, Endless Cockroaches—keep the sacrifice engine humming while Sivriss mines your library. Since you're milling your own deck, graveyard payoffs like Living Death or Viscera Seer turn dead cards into value. The win comes from grinding opponents down through life loss while you refill your hand and board, eventually closing with commander damage or a reanimation haymaker.
This is a midrange-to-control deck that punishes greedy opponents who refuse to pay life. You're not racing; you're suffocating the table with inevitability.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Skip expensive tutors like Demonic Tutor; use Fabricate and Diabolic Tutor instead. Budget tokens from Forbidden Friendship or Saproling Burst over pricey lords.
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