Legendary Creature — Demon Noble

Be'lakor, the Dark Master

Mana value6EDHREC#7,311

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The Commander

Flying

Prince of Chaos — When Be'lakor enters, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of Demons you control.

Lord of Torment — Whenever another Demon you control enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.

Guide

Gameplan

Build a Grixis Demon tribal deck where every Demon entering the battlefield throws its power as direct damage at any target—including opponents' faces and creatures. Ramp into a fat board of fliers, cheat big Demons in for free 'pings,' and burn the table down while drawing cards off Be'lakor's ETB. You win through evasive beats and a death-by-a-thousand-cuts barrage of enter-the-battlefield damage.

Strengths

Every Demon you play is a removal spell and a burn spell stapled together via Lord of Torment.
Flying-heavy board makes combat damage hard to block and races well.
Synergizes hugely with blink, reanimation, and recursion to repeat damage triggers.
Be'lakor's ETB draw refuels you after committing to the board.

Weaknesses

Color-intensive Grixis manabase with high-cost Demons demands heavy ramp.
Be'lakor and your payoffs are removal magnets; board wipes hit you hard.
Self-damage from Prince of Chaos and life-loss Demons can leave you exposed.
Without Demons in play, the commander is just a 6-mana 4/4 flier.

Key Cards

Rune-Scarred Demon — Tutors any card and pings 6 to a face on entry, doubling as removal and a finisher.
Lord of the Void — A massive flier that snipes a creature for 7 on ETB while raiding opponents' libraries.
Reanimate — Cheaply throws a huge Demon into play, triggering Lord of Torment damage for nearly free.
Conjurer's Closet — Blinks a Demon every end step to repeat its enter-the-battlefield damage trigger.
Sneak Attack — Slams Demons in for one turn, each one firing its power as damage on the way down.
Ophiomancer — Generates recurring tokens; pairs with sacrifice and blink engines around your Demon shell.

Upgrade Path

Add fast mana (Mana Crypt, Jeweled Lotus, signets) to deploy big Demons ahead of curve, and lean into a blink/reanimation package (Marionette Master, Goryo's Vengeance, Eldrazi-style ETB Demons) to abuse Lord of Torment repeatedly. Tighten the manabase with duals, fetches, and fixing, and include protection like Heroic Intervention plus a couple of damage-doubling effects (Furnace of Rath, Torbran-style boosts) to turn pings into kills.

Core Cards

The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.

Win Conditions

▸Repeatedly blink or reanimate high-power Demons to burn opponents out via Lord of Torment.
▸Evasive flying Demon beatdown closing games in the air.
▸Combo loops like Gray Merchant or sac-and-reanimate engines draining the table.

Archetypes

Demon Tribal — Be'lakor turns every Demon's ETB into burn, rewarding a critical mass of big Demons.
Blink — Flickering Demons re-triggers Lord of Torment for repeatable, targeted damage.
Reanimator — Cheating expensive Demons from the graveyard maximizes value while still firing damage triggers.
Aristocrats — Sac-and-recur loops with Demons turn entries into a steady stream of pings and life drain.