This week, CMDR Decks takes a look at GatheringMagic.com’s exclusive Theros preview card for with an eye for Commander. Check out the mono-black Gorgon legend Hythonia the Cruel and a deck built around her specific cruelness. Also be sure to check out Jules Robins’s and Carlos Gutierrez's take on Hythonia with a specific look at casual, non-Commander, play.

"Hythonia the Cruel Decklist"

• Commander (0)

• Creatures (19)
• 1 Cairn Wanderer
• 1 Crypt Ghast
• 1 Dread Cacodemon
• 1 Dusk Urchins
• 1 Ghostly Changeling
• 1 Gorgon Recluse
• 1 Infernal Medusa
• 1 Masked Gorgon
• 1 Massacre Wurm
• 1 Midnight Banshee
• 1 Moonglove Changeling
• 1 Necrotic Ooze
• 1 Onyx Mage
• 1 Reassembling Skeleton
• 1 Skeletal Changeling
• 1 Xathrid Gorgon
• 1 Pilgrim's Eye
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Visara the Dreadful

• Planeswalkers (1)
• 1 Liliana of the Dark Realms

• Spells (33)
• 1 Sudden Spoiling
• 1 Army of the Damned
• 1 Cabal Conditioning
• 1 Choice of Damnations
• 1 Dregs of Sorrow
• 1 Overwhelming Forces
• 1 Phthisis
• 1 Plague of Vermin
• 1 Plague Wind
• 1 Repay in Kind
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 Black Market
• 1 Conspiracy
• 1 Endless Whispers
• 1 Grave Betrayal
• 1 Greed
• 1 Painful Quandary
• 1 Phyrexian Arena
• 1 Polluted Bonds
• 1 Wave of Terror
• 1 Bitterblossom
• 1 Caged Sun
• 1 Codex Shredder
• 1 Expedition Map
• 1 Gilded Lotus
• 1 Gorgon Flail
• 1 Grappling Hook
• 1 Nemesis Mask
• 1 Oblivion Stone
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Viridian Longbow
• 1 Thornbite Staff
• 1 Grimoire of the Dead

• Lands (46)
• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Cabal Coffers
• 1 Ghost Quarter
• 1 Homeward Path
• 1 Lake of the Dead
• 1 Tectonic Edge
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 Terrain Generator
• 1 Forsaken Wastes
• 1 Koskun Falls
• 35 Swamp

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