BlackLegendary Creature — Demon AdvisorMadame Null, Power Broker
Mana value3Rank#11,883
The Commander
Deathtouch
Whenever another creature you control enters, you may pay life equal to its power. If you do, put that many +1/+1 counters on it.
Guide
Gameplan
Madame Null is a mono-black counters payoff that lets you pay life to double the power of each creature as it enters, snowballing your board into oversized threats. You ramp into beefy creatures, flicker or recur them to re-trigger the doubling, and protect your life total with lifegain so the payments never matter. Win by swinging with enormous, deathtouch-backed bodies or by funneling counters into a single Voltron threat.
Strengths
- Effectively doubles the power of every creature you play, turning fair creatures into game-ending threats fast
- Deathtouch on the commander makes attacking and blocking miserable for opponents
- Mono-black gives deep tutoring, recursion, and card advantage to find and rebuy payoffs
- Synergizes with both go-wide token strategies and single-target counter pile-ons
Weaknesses
- Life payment is real and can be exploited by aggressive or burn-style mono-black mirrors
- Token creatures with 0 power gain nothing, so the payoff is selective
- Relies on creatures actually entering, so heavy board wipes set you back hard
- Counters can be removed or the creatures killed before counters pay off, and the ability does nothing for instant-speed interaction
Key Cards
- Cathars' Crusade — Stacks even more counters every time a creature enters, compounding Madame Null's doubling for absurd board growth.
- Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose — Turns your lifegain into damage and lets you drain opponents while offsetting the life paid to Madame Null.
- Conspiracy / Maskwood Nexus — Type-changing effects matter less here, but powerful payoff anthems and lifelinkers keep your life total safe while doubling continues.
- Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord — Cheaply drops big-power Vampires/Demons and provides lifelink and lifegain to fund repeated life payments.
- Phyrexian Reclamation — Recurs your best high-power creatures to re-trigger the doubling again and again for a cheap life cost.
Upgrade Path
Add proliferate engines (Evolution Sage, Inexorable Tide) and anthem doublers like Doubling Season to multiply Madame Null's output. Strengthen the lifegain shell with Vito, Marauding Blight-Priest, and Whip of Erebos so payments are free and convertible to damage. Tighten the mana base with fast rocks (Sol Ring, Arcane Signet) and black tutors (Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor) to consistently land your bombs early.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Beating down with oversized, deathtouch-supported creatures and trample
- ▸Funneling counters into one Voltron threat for lethal commander damage
- ▸Draining the table with lifegain payoffs like Vito while staying high on life
- ▸Going wide with tokens buffed by Cathars' Crusade and an overrun effect
Archetypes
- +1/+1 Counters — Madame Null is a counter engine, doubling power on entry and pairing with proliferate and counter-matters payoffs.
- Voltron — Pour all the counters into one evasive deathtouch creature and one-shot opponents with commander damage or trample.
- Aristocrats/Lifegain — Lifegain offsets the life payments while drain effects convert your healthy life total into a win condition.
- Reanimator — Reanimate huge-power creatures and let Madame Null double their already-massive power as they enter.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (B), by popularity.
