Kotis, the Jerk

The deck "Kotis, the Jerk" is a Mono-Black Zombie tribal deck in the Commander/EDH format, centered around leveraging the synergies between Zombies and graveyard interactions to dominate the battlefield. The primary strategy involves creating a resilient board presence with Zombie creatures, utilizing cards like Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos to control opponents' boards by forcing sacrifices whenever your creatures die.

Key synergies include using Phyrexian Altar and Ashnod's Altar to generate mana and enable sacrifice loops, particularly with cards like Undead Alchemist and Rotlung Reanimator. Necropotence and Phyrexian Arena provide card draw to maintain momentum, while Volrath's Stronghold and Crypt of Agadeem allow for efficient recursion of key creatures from the graveyard.

The deck aims to win through overwhelming opponents with a large, recursion-fueled Zombie army, often boosted by powerful effects from cards like Liliana, Dreadhorde General. It utilizes a suite of disruption through cards like Thoughtseize and Duress to keep opponents off balance, and removal spells