Art by Peter Mohrbacher

Erebos, God of the Dead

Legendary Enchantment Creature — God

Indestructible As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.) Your opponents can't gain life. , Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

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Erebos, God of the Dead deck guide

Erebos, God of the Dead is a mono-black enchantment creature commander. It leads 1,576 decks on EDHREC, where it ranks #1,319 among all commanders.

Most Erebos decks are built around lifegain, devotion and control, with lifedrain and self-damage builds close behind.

A typical Erebos list runs 36 lands (28 basic), 22 creatures, 8 instants, 11 sorceries, 11 artifacts, 10 enchantments and 1 planeswalkers.

The cards played most with Erebos: Sol Ring (84% of decks), Arcane Signet (56% of decks), Liliana of the Dark Realms (47% of decks), Torment of Hailfire (46% of decks), Massacre Wurm (44% of decks) and Nirkana Revenant (44% of decks).

Well-known combos with Erebos:

Sanguine Bond + Exquisite Blood
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose + Exquisite Blood
Exquisite Blood + Enduring Tenacity

Play data from EDHREC, updated daily.

Average Card Type Breakdown

Creature

22%

Instant

Sorcery

11%

Artifact

11%

Enchantment

10%

Planeswalker

Land

36%

Average Mana Curve

13%

22%

17%

21%

11%

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Most Played With Erebos, God of the Dead (205)

Sol Ring

84% of decks · $1.34

Arcane Signet

56% of decks · $0.49

Liliana of the Dark Realms

47% of decks · $9.67

Torment of Hailfire

46% of decks · $36.04

Massacre Wurm

44% of decks · $2.44

Nirkana Revenant

44% of decks · $6.94

Exquisite Blood

42% of decks · $40.36

Underworld Dreams

41% of decks · $2.19

Phyrexian Obliterator

41% of decks · $9.46

Reanimate

40% of decks · $10.10

Defile

40% of decks · $1.43

Mutilate

39% of decks · $2.19

Expedition Map

39% of decks · $1.43

Bolas's Citadel

39% of decks · $15.83

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

38% of decks · $98.55

Painful Quandary

38% of decks · $1.79

Thought Vessel

37% of decks

Demonic Tutor

37% of decks · $69.17

Dread Presence

37% of decks · $3.39

Withering Torment

36% of decks · $1.60

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

36% of decks · $1.05

35% of decks · $3.14

No Mercy

35% of decks · $24.64

The Darkness Crystal

35% of decks · $4.28

Consuming Corruption

35% of decks · $0.26

Sanguine Bond

33% of decks · $7.95

Deadly Rollick

33% of decks · $28.68

Caged Sun

32% of decks · $3.87

The Meathook Massacre

32% of decks · $24.81

Mind Stone

31% of decks

Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

31% of decks · $10.36

Charcoal Diamond

31% of decks · $0.35

Bubbling Muck

30% of decks · $4.87

Bloodletter of Aclazotz

30% of decks · $36.69

Magus of the Coffers

30% of decks · $4.93

Creeping Bloodsucker

29% of decks · $4.95

Vilis, Broker of Blood

29% of decks · $9.93

Twilight Prophet

28% of decks · $3.70

Infernal Grasp

28% of decks · $0.32

Necropotence

27% of decks · $38.23

Ayara, First of Locthwain

27% of decks · $8.44

Solemn Simulacrum

27% of decks · $0.31

Blood Artist

27% of decks · $3.83

Black Market Connections

26% of decks · $10.53

Wayfarer's Bauble

26% of decks · $5.61

Bloodthirsty Conqueror

26% of decks · $36.82

Vampiric Tutor

26% of decks · $54.03

Imp's Mischief

25% of decks · $9.18

Enduring Tenacity

25% of decks · $14.78

Vampire Nighthawk

25% of decks · $0.20

Darkness

25% of decks · $23.83

Nyx Lotus

24% of decks · $4.76

Dauthi Voidwalker

24% of decks · $5.72

Animate Dead

24% of decks · $7.45

Sheoldred, Whispering One

24% of decks · $20.76

Kokusho, the Evening Star

24% of decks · $24.11

Font of Agonies

24% of decks · $0.69

Sudden Spoiling

24% of decks · $6.95

Night's Whisper

23% of decks · $6.25

Black Market

23% of decks · $6.30

Fell the Profane

22% of decks

Bontu's Monument

22% of decks · $4.60

Bloodchief Ascension

22% of decks · $21.34

Read the Bones

22% of decks · $0.30

Polluted Bonds

21% of decks · $10.28

Erebos's Intervention

21% of decks · $0.51

Murderous Rider

21% of decks

Nighthawk Scavenger

21% of decks · $0.59

Sangromancer

20% of decks · $1.00

Decree of Pain

20% of decks · $0.37

The Soul Stone

20% of decks · $60.43

Go for the Throat

20% of decks · $0.62

Pestilence

20% of decks · $0.58

Sorin Markov

20% of decks · $9.55

Gifted Aetherborn

19% of decks · $0.37

Oubliette

19% of decks · $2.87

Qarsi Revenant

18% of decks · $2.38

Zodiark, Umbral God

18% of decks · $0.60

Rise of the Dark Realms

17% of decks · $6.73

Blasphemous Edict

17% of decks · $4.24

Diabolic Tutor

17% of decks · $2.21

Noxious Gearhulk

16% of decks · $0.45

Black Sun's Zenith

16% of decks · $0.38

Alhammarret's Archive

16% of decks · $10.49

Wound Reflection

16% of decks · $14.39

Grave Titan

16% of decks · $0.35

Phyrexian Reclamation

16% of decks · $2.84

Archenemy's Charm

15% of decks · $1.02

Grim Tutor

15% of decks · $23.87

Extraplanar Lens

15% of decks · $13.92

Dictate of Erebos

15% of decks · $16.92

Baleful Mastery

15% of decks · $2.53

Snuff Out

15% of decks · $12.98

Hero's Downfall

15% of decks · $0.29

Fellwar Stone

15% of decks

Victimize

15% of decks · $1.25

Grave Pact

15% of decks · $30.52

Malakir Rebirth

14% of decks

Aetherflux Reservoir

14% of decks · $21.72

Lightning Greaves

14% of decks · $4.10

Throne of Eldraine

14% of decks · $29.40

Burnished Hart

14% of decks · $0.30

Ophiomancer

14% of decks · $1.18

Abhorrent Overlord

13% of decks · $0.43

Plaguecrafter

13% of decks · $0.39

Profane Command

13% of decks · $0.38

Archfiend of Depravity

13% of decks · $3.25

Erebos, Bleak-Hearted

12% of decks · $2.21

Orcish Bowmasters

12% of decks · $43.37

Insatiable Avarice

12% of decks · $6.03

Revenge of Ravens

12% of decks · $0.38

Syphon Mind

12% of decks · $0.31

Bitterblossom

12% of decks · $32.66

Sheoldred's Edict

12% of decks · $1.44

Soul Shatter

12% of decks · $6.05

Beseech the Queen

12% of decks · $8.42

Meathook Massacre II

12% of decks · $2.44

Force of Despair

12% of decks · $7.17

Rune-Scarred Demon

12% of decks · $1.49

Cabal Ritual

11% of decks

Gauntlet of Power

11% of decks · $4.09

Tragic Slip

11% of decks · $0.26

Valgavoth, Terror Eater

11% of decks · $18.44

Tendrils of Corruption

11% of decks · $0.32

Corrupt

11% of decks · $0.11

Boggart Trawler

10% of decks

Fate Unraveler

10% of decks · $3.40

Dismember

10% of decks · $4.78

Maha, Its Feathers Night

10% of decks · $21.26

Agadeem's Awakening

10% of decks

Consume Spirit

10% of decks · $0.42

Gixian Puppeteer

10% of decks · $1.29

Sensei's Divining Top

10% of decks · $40.31

Grim Servant

10% of decks · $0.23

Deadly Tempest

10% of decks · $1.04

Pontiff of Blight

10% of decks · $0.36

Marauding Blight-Priest

10% of decks · $0.30

Withering Boon

10% of decks · $11.17

Zulaport Cutthroat

10% of decks · $1.35

Shard of the Nightbringer

10% of decks · $4.48

Swiftfoot Boots

9% of decks

Everflowing Chalice

9% of decks · $0.30

Accursed Marauder

9% of decks · $0.31

Killing Wave

9% of decks · $0.40

Archfiend of Despair

9% of decks · $3.15

Altar of the Pantheon

9% of decks · $0.26

Opposition Agent

9% of decks · $20.71

Drag to the Underworld

9% of decks · $0.18

Sceptre of Eternal Glory

9% of decks · $20.16

Liliana, Dreadhorde General

9% of decks · $10.03

Virtue of Persistence

9% of decks

Doom Blade

9% of decks · $0.23

In Garruk's Wake

9% of decks · $3.17

Underworld Connections

9% of decks · $0.42

Saw in Half

8% of decks · $5.73

Peer into the Abyss

8% of decks · $3.59

Venser's Journal

8% of decks · $8.96

Oppression

8% of decks · $4.79

Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath

8% of decks · $0.79

Bitter Triumph

8% of decks · $0.32

Temporal Extortion

8% of decks · $27.65

The One Ring

8% of decks · $115.41

Shadowspear

8% of decks · $29.75

Staff of the Death Magus

8% of decks · $0.41

Demon's Horn

8% of decks · $1.20

Leyline of the Void

8% of decks · $0.73

Tainted Aether

8% of decks · $8.38

Court of Ambition

7% of decks · $6.49

Liliana Vess

7% of decks · $10.34

Decorum Dissertation

7% of decks · $5.43

Imperial Seal

7% of decks · $166.33

Murder

7% of decks · $0.20

Gilded Lotus

7% of decks · $0.59

Repay in Kind

7% of decks · $3.68

Entomb

7% of decks · $18.32

Thran Dynamo

7% of decks · $4.36

Palace Siege

7% of decks · $0.98

Crypt Incursion

6% of decks · $0.34

Yawgmoth's Will

6% of decks

Final Act

6% of decks · $0.68

Hagra Mauling

6% of decks

Warlock Class

6% of decks · $0.23

Lashwrithe

6% of decks · $0.67

Ob Nixilis Reignited

6% of decks · $0.40

Necromancy

6% of decks · $19.41

World Map

6% of decks · $0.27

Dread Return

6% of decks · $0.60

Dark Petition

6% of decks · $3.27

Drain Life

6% of decks · $0.37

Retreat to Hagra

6% of decks · $1.89

Sinister Monolith

6% of decks · $0.30

Dogged Pursuit

6% of decks · $0.17

Diabolic Intent

6% of decks · $17.44

Waste Not

6% of decks · $8.56

Living Death

5% of decks · $6.29

Grave Betrayal

5% of decks · $3.45

Dash Hopes

5% of decks · $0.79

Liliana of the Veil

5% of decks · $7.78

Will of the Abzan

5% of decks · $4.65

Beseech the Mirror

5% of decks · $21.21

Breach the Multiverse

5% of decks · $11.45

Mask of Griselbrand

5% of decks · $0.97

Ill-Gotten Inheritance

5% of decks · $0.24

Army of the Damned

5% of decks · $1.80

Triskaidekaphobia

5% of decks · $0.26

New Cards

Avacyn, Angel of Horror

15% of decks · $15.93

Troop of Ponies

10% of decks · $0.29

Emrakul, the Exigent Doom

3% of decks · $19.61

Gollum, Riddle Master

2% of decks · $1.69

Overwrite the Multiverse

2% of decks · $1.50

Creatures (50)

Massacre Wurm

44% of decks · $2.44

Nirkana Revenant

44% of decks · $6.94

Phyrexian Obliterator

41% of decks · $9.46

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

38% of decks · $98.55

Dread Presence

37% of decks · $3.39

K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

36% of decks · $1.05

Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

31% of decks · $10.36

Bloodletter of Aclazotz

30% of decks · $36.69

Magus of the Coffers

30% of decks · $4.93

Creeping Bloodsucker

29% of decks · $4.95

Vilis, Broker of Blood

29% of decks · $9.93

Twilight Prophet

28% of decks · $3.70

Ayara, First of Locthwain

27% of decks · $8.44

Solemn Simulacrum

27% of decks · $0.31

Blood Artist

27% of decks · $3.83

Bloodthirsty Conqueror

26% of decks · $36.82

Enduring Tenacity

25% of decks · $14.78

Vampire Nighthawk

25% of decks · $0.20

Dauthi Voidwalker

24% of decks · $5.72

Sheoldred, Whispering One

24% of decks · $20.76

Kokusho, the Evening Star

24% of decks · $24.11

Murderous Rider

21% of decks

Nighthawk Scavenger

21% of decks · $0.59

Sangromancer

20% of decks · $1.00

Gifted Aetherborn

19% of decks · $0.37

Qarsi Revenant

18% of decks · $2.38

Zodiark, Umbral God

18% of decks · $0.60

Noxious Gearhulk

16% of decks · $0.45

Grave Titan

16% of decks · $0.35

Burnished Hart

14% of decks · $0.30

Ophiomancer

14% of decks · $1.18

Abhorrent Overlord

13% of decks · $0.43

Plaguecrafter

13% of decks · $0.39

Archfiend of Depravity

13% of decks · $3.25

Erebos, Bleak-Hearted

12% of decks · $2.21

Orcish Bowmasters

12% of decks · $43.37

Rune-Scarred Demon

12% of decks · $1.49

Valgavoth, Terror Eater

11% of decks · $18.44

Boggart Trawler

10% of decks

Fate Unraveler

10% of decks · $3.40

Maha, Its Feathers Night

10% of decks · $21.26

Gixian Puppeteer

10% of decks · $1.29

Grim Servant

10% of decks · $0.23

Pontiff of Blight

10% of decks · $0.36

Marauding Blight-Priest

10% of decks · $0.30

Zulaport Cutthroat

10% of decks · $1.35

Shard of the Nightbringer

10% of decks · $4.48

Accursed Marauder

9% of decks · $0.31

Archfiend of Despair

9% of decks · $3.15

Opposition Agent

9% of decks · $20.71

Instants (34)

Defile

40% of decks · $1.43

Withering Torment

36% of decks · $1.60

Consuming Corruption

35% of decks · $0.26

Deadly Rollick

33% of decks · $28.68

Infernal Grasp

28% of decks · $0.32

Vampiric Tutor

26% of decks · $54.03

Imp's Mischief

25% of decks · $9.18

Darkness

25% of decks · $23.83

Sudden Spoiling

24% of decks · $6.95

Fell the Profane

22% of decks

Erebos's Intervention

21% of decks · $0.51

Go for the Throat

20% of decks · $0.62

Archenemy's Charm

15% of decks · $1.02

Baleful Mastery

15% of decks · $2.53

Snuff Out

15% of decks · $12.98

Hero's Downfall

15% of decks · $0.29

Malakir Rebirth

14% of decks

Sheoldred's Edict

12% of decks · $1.44

Soul Shatter

12% of decks · $6.05

Force of Despair

12% of decks · $7.17

Cabal Ritual

11% of decks

Tragic Slip

11% of decks · $0.26

Tendrils of Corruption

11% of decks · $0.32

Dismember

10% of decks · $4.78

Withering Boon

10% of decks · $11.17

Drag to the Underworld

9% of decks · $0.18

Doom Blade

9% of decks · $0.23

Saw in Half

8% of decks · $5.73

Bitter Triumph

8% of decks · $0.32

Murder

7% of decks · $0.20

Entomb

7% of decks · $18.32

Crypt Incursion

6% of decks · $0.34

Hagra Mauling

6% of decks

Dash Hopes

5% of decks · $0.79

Sorceries (41)

Torment of Hailfire

46% of decks · $36.04

Reanimate

40% of decks · $10.10

Mutilate

39% of decks · $2.19

Demonic Tutor

37% of decks · $69.17

35% of decks · $3.14

Bubbling Muck

30% of decks · $4.87

Night's Whisper

23% of decks · $6.25

Read the Bones

22% of decks · $0.30

Decree of Pain

20% of decks · $0.37

Rise of the Dark Realms

17% of decks · $6.73

Blasphemous Edict

17% of decks · $4.24

Diabolic Tutor

17% of decks · $2.21

Black Sun's Zenith

16% of decks · $0.38

Grim Tutor

15% of decks · $23.87

Victimize

15% of decks · $1.25

Profane Command

13% of decks · $0.38

Insatiable Avarice

12% of decks · $6.03

Syphon Mind

12% of decks · $0.31

Beseech the Queen

12% of decks · $8.42

Corrupt

11% of decks · $0.11

Agadeem's Awakening

10% of decks

Consume Spirit

10% of decks · $0.42

Deadly Tempest

10% of decks · $1.04

Killing Wave

9% of decks · $0.40

In Garruk's Wake

9% of decks · $3.17

Peer into the Abyss

8% of decks · $3.59

Temporal Extortion

8% of decks · $27.65

Decorum Dissertation

7% of decks · $5.43

Imperial Seal

7% of decks · $166.33

Repay in Kind

7% of decks · $3.68

Yawgmoth's Will

6% of decks

Final Act

6% of decks · $0.68

Dread Return

6% of decks · $0.60

Dark Petition

6% of decks · $3.27

Drain Life

6% of decks · $0.37

Diabolic Intent

6% of decks · $17.44

Living Death

5% of decks · $6.29

Will of the Abzan

5% of decks · $4.65

Beseech the Mirror

5% of decks · $21.21

Breach the Multiverse

5% of decks · $11.45

Army of the Damned

5% of decks · $1.80

Utility Artifacts (19)

Expedition Map

39% of decks · $1.43

Bolas's Citadel

39% of decks · $15.83

The Darkness Crystal

35% of decks · $4.28

Wayfarer's Bauble

26% of decks · $5.61

Bontu's Monument

22% of decks · $4.60

Alhammarret's Archive

16% of decks · $10.49

Aetherflux Reservoir

14% of decks · $21.72

Lightning Greaves

14% of decks · $4.10

Sensei's Divining Top

10% of decks · $40.31

Swiftfoot Boots

9% of decks

Venser's Journal

8% of decks · $8.96

The One Ring

8% of decks · $115.41

Shadowspear

8% of decks · $29.75

Staff of the Death Magus

8% of decks · $0.41

Demon's Horn

8% of decks · $1.20

Lashwrithe

6% of decks · $0.67

World Map

6% of decks · $0.27

Sinister Monolith

6% of decks · $0.30

Mask of Griselbrand

5% of decks · $0.97

Mana Artifacts (17)

Sol Ring

84% of decks · $1.34

Arcane Signet

56% of decks · $0.49

Thought Vessel

37% of decks

Caged Sun

32% of decks · $3.87

Mind Stone

31% of decks

Charcoal Diamond

31% of decks · $0.35

Nyx Lotus

24% of decks · $4.76

The Soul Stone

20% of decks · $60.43

Extraplanar Lens

15% of decks · $13.92

Fellwar Stone

15% of decks

Throne of Eldraine

14% of decks · $29.40

Gauntlet of Power

11% of decks · $4.09

Everflowing Chalice

9% of decks · $0.30

Altar of the Pantheon

9% of decks · $0.26

Sceptre of Eternal Glory

9% of decks · $20.16

Gilded Lotus

7% of decks · $0.59

Thran Dynamo

7% of decks · $4.36

Enchantments (37)

Exquisite Blood

42% of decks · $40.36

Underworld Dreams

41% of decks · $2.19

Painful Quandary

38% of decks · $1.79

No Mercy

35% of decks · $24.64

Sanguine Bond

33% of decks · $7.95

The Meathook Massacre

32% of decks · $24.81

Necropotence

27% of decks · $38.23

Black Market Connections

26% of decks · $10.53

Animate Dead

24% of decks · $7.45

Font of Agonies

24% of decks · $0.69

Black Market

23% of decks · $6.30

Bloodchief Ascension

22% of decks · $21.34

Polluted Bonds

21% of decks · $10.28

Pestilence

20% of decks · $0.58

Oubliette

19% of decks · $2.87

Wound Reflection

16% of decks · $14.39

Phyrexian Reclamation

16% of decks · $2.84

Dictate of Erebos

15% of decks · $16.92

Grave Pact

15% of decks · $30.52

Revenge of Ravens

12% of decks · $0.38

Bitterblossom

12% of decks · $32.66

Meathook Massacre II

12% of decks · $2.44

Virtue of Persistence

9% of decks

Underworld Connections

9% of decks · $0.42

Oppression

8% of decks · $4.79

Leyline of the Void

8% of decks · $0.73

Tainted Aether

8% of decks · $8.38

Court of Ambition

7% of decks · $6.49

Palace Siege

7% of decks · $0.98

Warlock Class

6% of decks · $0.23

Necromancy

6% of decks · $19.41

Retreat to Hagra

6% of decks · $1.89

Dogged Pursuit

6% of decks · $0.17

Waste Not

6% of decks · $8.56

Grave Betrayal

5% of decks · $3.45

Ill-Gotten Inheritance

5% of decks · $0.24

Triskaidekaphobia

5% of decks · $0.26

Planeswalkers (7)

Liliana of the Dark Realms

47% of decks · $9.67

Sorin Markov

20% of decks · $9.55

Liliana, Dreadhorde General

9% of decks · $10.03

Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath

8% of decks · $0.79

Liliana Vess

7% of decks · $10.34

Ob Nixilis Reignited

6% of decks · $0.40

Liliana of the Veil

5% of decks · $7.78

Utility Lands (32)

Cabal Coffers

76% of decks

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

57% of decks

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

57% of decks

Bojuka Bog

56% of decks

Cabal Stronghold

51% of decks

Reliquary Tower

38% of decks

Witch's Cottage

26% of decks

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

19% of decks

Castle Locthwain

19% of decks

Thespian's Stage

19% of decks

Deserted Temple

19% of decks

Leechridden Swamp

14% of decks

Phyrexian Tower

14% of decks

Vesuva

12% of decks

Maze of Ith

12% of decks

Crypt of Agadeem

11% of decks

Ancient Tomb

10% of decks

War Room

10% of decks

Mortuary Mire

9% of decks

Barren Moor

9% of decks

Strip Mine

8% of decks

Volrath's Stronghold

8% of decks

Temple of the False God

8% of decks

Shizo, Death's Storehouse

8% of decks

Rogue's Passage

7% of decks

Boseiju, Who Shelters All

6% of decks

Ghost Quarter

6% of decks

Lake of the Dead

6% of decks

Terrain Generator

6% of decks

Urza's Saga

6% of decks

Glacial Chasm

5% of decks

Westvale Abbey

5% of decks

Lands (10)

Swamp

89% of decks

Myriad Landscape

32% of decks

Fell the Profane

22% of decks

Urza's Cave

18% of decks

Malakir Rebirth

14% of decks

Snow-Covered Swamp

13% of decks

Boggart Trawler

10% of decks

Agadeem's Awakening

10% of decks

Demolition Field

7% of decks

Hagra Mauling

6% of decks

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