Tombstone, Career Criminal

Tombstone, Career Criminal is your gateway to building a Villain-focused graveyard deck that rewards you for filling your graveyard and casting from it. The main game plan revolves around getting Villains into your graveyard—through self-mill, discard outlets, or natural gameplay—then using Tombstone to recur them while simultaneously reducing the casting cost of your Villain spells. This creates a snowball effect where you're generating value each turn, recursing threats, and casting your threats more efficiently.

Your deck wins by establishing a consistent stream of Villain creatures that pressure opponents, ideally building toward a critical mass of synergies. Since Villains are relatively uncommon in black, you'll lean into general black goodstuff with Villain payoffs: cards that care about creature types, sacrifice outlets, and graveyard synergies. The secondary win condition is commander damage—Tombstone can be a sneaky beater once you're grinding value—but your primary path is attrition through efficient threats and recursion. You're playing a midrange graveyard deck that grinds opponents down over several turns.

Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.