Living End: Everybody Comes Back at Once
Cascade into a one-card board wipe that reanimates your whole hand.
Estimated budget
~$350 – $500
Playstyle
Combo · Midrange
Strategy
Living End decks cycle away a hand full of powerful creatures using Street Wraith and similar effects, then cascade off Shardless Agent into Living End itself, which exiles all creatures on both sides of the board and returns the caster's exiled creatures to play. The result is a one-sided board wipe that leaves the Living End player with a full team of value creatures like Archon of Cruelty and Shriekmaw while the opponent's board is gone.
Strengths
- ✓ Functions as a board wipe and a huge tempo swing in one card
- ✓ Creatures cycled away are effectively free spells
- ✓ Very resilient to single-target removal since the payoff is a sorcery, not a creature
Weaknesses
- ✗ Graveyard hate completely shuts the plan off
- ✗ Needs to draw or cycle into Living End itself
- ✗ Vulnerable if the opponent forces it to cascade into a dead card
Key Cards
Living End
The payoff sorcery — exile and return
Shardless Agent
Cascade enabler
Street Wraith
Free cycling to dig and fuel the graveyard
Archon of Cruelty
Devastating reanimation payoff
Shriekmaw
Removal creature that returns with the rest
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Common questions
01 Why do the creatures in this deck have such high mana costs?
They are never actually cast for their mana cost — they are cycled or exiled and then returned by Living End, so a big cost only matters for cascade targeting, not for how the deck pays for them.
02 Why is graveyard hate such a problem for this deck?
The entire plan depends on cycling creatures into the graveyard and then returning them with Living End, so any effect that exiles the graveyard removes both the fuel and the payoff at once.
