Pilfered Gold Graves

Pilfered Gold Graves is a Rakdos (black-red) aristocrats / treasure-sacrifice Commander deck with a grindy value engine and big mana finishers.

It wants to generate lots of expendable creatures and Treasures, then sacrifice them for value and drain. Cards like Pitiless Plunderer, Academy Manufactor, Grim Hireling, Brass’s Bounty, Seize the Spoils, Big Score, and Locke, Treasure Hunter help flood the board with artifacts and fodder, while Blood Artist, Syr Konrad, the Grim, and Mirkwood Bats turn those deaths and artifact sacrifices into damage. Recursive bodies like Reassembling Skeleton, Ophiomancer, Stitcher’s Supplier, and token makers such as Ghoulcaller Gisa, Siege-Gang Commander, and Krenko, Mob Boss keep the sacrifice engine running.

The deck usually wins by bleeding the table out through aristocrat triggers, or by converting treasure-fueled mana into a huge Exsanguinate or Crackle with Power. It also has a late-game reanimation angle with **