Commander: Purraj of Urborg

I suppose that given my desire to use older cards, the use of a commander like Purraj was something that one could see coming.

Commander: Purraj of Urborg	Artifacts Amber Prison Powder Keg Charcoal Diamond Skull of Ramos Nihil Spellbomb Loxodon Warhammer Nightmare Lash Lashwrithe
Lands 32 Swamp Everglades Spawning Pool Cabal Coffers Cabal Pit Bojuka Bog	Sorceries Unnerve Corrupt Massacre Do or Die Consume Spirit Sadistic Sacrament Festering March
Enchantments Necromancy Bad Moon Evil Presence Phyrexian Boon Hecatomb Vow of Malice Subversion Phyrexian Arena Enslave Pestilence	Instants Nocturnal Raid Ebony Charm Bone Harvest Chill to the Bone Dark Banishing Funeral March Cabal Ritual Shriveling Rot
Creatures Urborg Stalker Spirit of the Night Bone Dancer Gallowbraid Morinfen The Fallen Dread Cacodemon Chainer, Dementia Master Ascendant Evincar Vault Skirge  Phyrexian Obliterator  Geth, Lord of the Vault  Liliana of the Dark Realms  Dross Golem	Creatures Nightmare Royal Assassin Sorin's Vengeance Void Maw Herald of Leshrac Order of Yawgmoth Carrion Beetles Plague Dogs Gravedigger Mortivore Avatar of Woe Leaden Myr Pestilence Demon  Hand of Cruelty  Rag Dealer

The goal is pretty simple: get out Purraj, cast black spells to make her huge, work the synergies that Black has within itself (cards like Nightmare and...uh, Nightmare Lash) in order to win the game. I did what I could to get around the most common restriction of Black removal (it can't get rid of creatures in its color) with cards like Pestilence and Chill to the Bone and I tried to make sure I could attack graveyard strategies with Rag Dealer, Nihil Spellbomb and Carrion Beetles.

I even got all crazy and used the only copy of Liliana of the Dark Realms that I own, because why not?

There's also some fun dick move cards, like Herald of Leshrac, Royal Assassin or Phyrexian Obliterator, along with weird (or bad) cards like The Fallen, Hecatomb or Do or Die.

There are definite questionmarks, of course. Sadistic Sacrament is one of those awesome cards that can really brutalize a combo deck but it's very difficult to pull off. In addition, it is a pinpoint strike; is it worth cutting off two legs when I have to deal with six? Amber Prison has a similar drawback. Gallowbraid and Morinfen in the same deck may represent life sinks that are too much to take but because they're related (in Magic lore, they are brothers) I have difficulty cutting them.

Still, I think that Purraj is one of those commanders that has potential, simply because she can become a very strong threat doing what any deck wants to do; cast spells. That kind of innate power shouldn't be ignored.