Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Horror

Drivnod, Carnage Dominus

Mana value5EDHREC#1,757

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The Commander

If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

{B/P} {B/P} , Exile three creature cards from your graveyard: Put an indestructible counter on Drivnod. ( {B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Guide

Gameplan

Drivnod doubles every death-trigger your permanents have, turning sacrifice loops and mass death into overwhelming value or lethal drain. You fuel an aristocrats engine all game, then close by sacrificing creatures repeatedly while doubled Blood Artist effects drain the table.

Strengths

Doubles all death triggers—drain, draw, counters, tokens—giving outsized value per dead creature
Mono-black gives access to elite tutors, ramp, and recursion for consistency
Cheap, repeatable aristocrats payoffs become game-ending with the doubler online
Self-protecting via indestructible counters off graveyard fuel

Weaknesses

Heavily commander-dependent; without Drivnod the engine stalls and recasting gets pricey
Single color limits access to blink, token doublers' colors, and broad interaction
Vulnerable to graveyard hate and to exile-based removal that ignores death triggers
Needs both payoffs and sac outlets assembled—can be slow if pieces are missing

Key Cards

Blood Artist — Its drain trigger is doubled, draining two life per death for fast incremental wins.
Zulaport Cutthroat — Doubled aristocrat drain that only hits opponents, accelerating the kill across the table.
Pitiless Plunderer — Each creature death makes two Treasures, generating explosive mana to loop sacrifices.
Bastion of Remembrance — An enchantment version of Blood Artist that's hard to remove and doubled by Drivnod.
Grave Pact — Forces opponents to sacrifice twice per your creature's death, gutting their boards.
Gravecrawler — Endlessly recurring sac fodder that triggers doubled death payoffs cheaply.
Midnight Reaper — Doubled card draw on nontoken deaths refuels your hand for repeated loops.

Upgrade Path

Add fast mana (Dark Ritual, Jeweled Lotus) and tutors (Demonic, Vampiric, Diabolic Intent) to assemble engines faster. Build toward a compact infinite loop like Gravecrawler + Phyrexian Altar + Pitiless Plunderer with a doubled drain payoff, and include graveyard recursion (Victimize, Reanimate) plus protection like Ashnod's Altar redundancy. Trim slow value pieces for cheaper, repeatable sac outlets to lower your average win turn.

Core Cards

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Win Conditions

▸Doubled Blood Artist/Zulaport drain triggers killing the whole table through repeated sacrifices
▸Infinite sacrifice loops (e.g., Gravecrawler + Phyrexian Altar + a death payoff) for instant drain
▸Grave Pact/Dictate of Erebos edicts stripping opponents' boards into a beatdown finish
▸Overwhelming card and Treasure advantage that snowballs into an unbeatable board

Archetypes

Aristocrats — Drivnod doubles every Blood Artist-style drain, making sacrifice the primary engine and win path.
Reanimator — Mono-black recursion lets you reuse fat death-trigger creatures and refill the yard for his ability.
Combo — Sac loops with Pitiless Plunderer and recurring creatures produce infinite mana, drain, or tokens with doubled triggers.
Tokens — Doubled token-on-death effects and mass sacrifice convert wide boards into lethal drain.