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Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Horror · {3}{B}{B} · Black 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.)
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What Drivnod, Carnage Dominus actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Activated ability{B/P}{B/P}, Exile three creature cards from your graveyard: Put an indestructible counter on Drivnod.
- Replacement effect · trigger_doublerIf a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
What a Drivnod, Carnage Dominus deck needs
Plays as death-trigger doubler. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- death-trigger payoffs, sacrifice outlets and expendable bodies (its doubler multiplies every death trigger)
- self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
The Drivnod, Carnage Dominus deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 13× A permanent that pays off creatures dying — the trigger a death-trigger doubler multiplies
- 6× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- 5× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- 10× Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- 7× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
Best cards for Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
A permanent that pays off creatures dying — the trigger a death-trigger doubler multiplies
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Blood Artist2 mana
- Zulaport Cutthroat2 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Marionette Apprentice2 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
- Mirkwood Bats4 mana
- Pitiless Plunderer4 mana
Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- Carrion Feeder1 mana
- Viscera Seer1 mana
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Spawning Pit2 mana
- Umbral Collar Zealot2 mana
- Bloodthrone Vampire2 mana
- Dark Privilege2 mana
- Ashnod's Altar3 mana
Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- Glaring Spotlight1 mana
- Cultist of the Absolute1 mana
- Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
- Predators' Hour2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar3 mana
- Lord Skitter's Butcher3 mana
- Skorpekh Lord3 mana
Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- Nurgle's Rot1 mana
- Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead5 mana
- Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
- Exquisite Huntmaster4 mana
- Grixis Slavedriver6 mana
- Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer3 mana
- Hangarback Walker0 mana
- Enduring Tenacity4 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
- Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
- Ripples of Undeath2 mana
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Tomb Fortress0 mana
- Millikin2 mana
- Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
- Syr Konrad, the Grim5 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
- Cut Down1 mana
- Erebos's Intervention1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Entomb1 mana
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
Combos with Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Drivnod, Carnage Dominus is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Drivnod, Carnage Dominus + Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Viscera Seer16,643 decks
- Drivnod, Carnage Dominus + Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Carrion Feeder12,087 decks
- Drivnod, Carnage Dominus + Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Yahenni, Undying Partisan6,083 decks
- Drivnod, Carnage Dominus + Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Bartolomé Del Presidio4,262 decks
- Drivnod, Carnage Dominus + Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Woe Strider4,151 decks
- Drivnod, Carnage Dominus + Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Umbral Collar Zealot3,579 decks
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