Athreos, God of Passage deck help

[Scarecrow1104]

Hey guys, I'm building an Athreos deck running solemnity/ luminous broodmoth/ mikaeus, the unhallowed/ geralf's messenger/ butcher ghoul combos going for infinite loop triggers of blood artist (and similar effects), blasting station, altar of dementia or bitter ordeal. My issues is I'm down. to the last six cards so need to cut and I can't seem to decide on which six. If y'all have any suggestions that would be awesome.

Here's the list organized into categories, there will be some overlap. Thanks.

Targeted kill/sacrifice/board wipes
The Meathook Massacre
Dictate of Erebos
Grave Pact
Fleshbag Marauder
Merciless Executioner
Demon's Disciple
Plaguecrafter
Damn
Despark
Swords to Plowshares
Path to Exile
Anguished Unmaking
Fracture
Teysa, Orzhov Scion
Shriekmaw
Vanishing Verse

Sac outlet
Altar of Dementia
Blasting Station
Viscera Seer
Ashnod's Altar
Smothering Abomination
Teysa, Orzhov Scion
Ayara, First of Locthwain

Ramp
Pawn of Ulamog
Pitiless Plunderer
Solemn Simulacrum
Ashnod's Altar
Sol Ring
Lotus Petal
Culling the Weak
Jeweled Lotus
Arcane Signet
Orzhov Signet
Talisman of Hierarchy
Thought Vessel
Fellwar Stone
Dark Ritual

Draw
Smothering Abomination
Morbid Opportunist
Read the Bones
Ayara, First of Locthwain
Callous Bloodmage
Phyrexian Arena
Village Rites
Deadly Dispute
Plumb the Forbidden
Grim Haruspex
Solemn Simulacrum

Recursion
Athreos, God of Passage
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
Luminous Broodmoth
Butcher Ghoul
Priest of Fell Rites
Unearth
Reassembling Skeleton
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
Victimize

Tutors
Sidisi, Undead Vizier
Vampiric Tutor
Demonic Tutor
Idyllic Tutor

Death/Sac triggers
Solemn Simulacrum
Smothering Abomination
Morbid Opportunist
Grim Haruspex
Pitiless Plunderer
Pawn of Ulamog
Fleshtaker
Grave Pact
Dictate of Erebos
The Meathook Massacre
Teysa, Orzhov Scion
Blood Artist
Cruel Celebrant
Zulaport Cutthroat
Syr Konrad, the Grim
Bastion of Remembrance

ETB
Solemn Simulacrum
Sidisi, Undead Vizier
Plaguecrafter
Demon's Disciple
Merciless Executioner
Fleshbag Marauder
Shriekmaw
Geralf's Messenger
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Elderfang Disciple

Single use sac
Victimize
Culling the Weak
Village Rites
Deadly Dispute
Plumb the Forbidden
Sidisi, Undead Vizier
Fleshbag Marauder
Merciless Executioner
Demon's Disciple
Plaguecrafter
Shriekmaw

No category
Bitter Ordeal
Solemnity
Opposition Agent
Dauthi Voidwalker
Leyline of the Void

[kirkusjones]

At first look, I'd say Ayara and Elderfang Disciple could go. I used to play Athreos and Heartless Summoning is really good, though a bit of a non-bo with critters with toughness of 1.

[Mookie]

I'll second cutting Elderfang Disciple. I also see that you have four Fleshbag Marauder effects - you could probably safely go down to two or three. IMO, early versions of the deck should include as much diversity as possible so you can gather more data - if a particular effect is good, you can always add in more later.

I'm not a big fan of Fleshtaker (or other sac outlets that cost mana to activate).

Fracture seems a bit narrow, unless you expect a lot of planeswalkers in your meta. (I'll call out Cathar Commando as an alternate option that is a bit more on-theme)

Also: you may want to use the |deck| tag.

(I also feel obligated to point to my Teysa, Orzhov Scion primer if you want ideas for BW aristocrats)

[Scarecrow1104]

Thanks guys.

I was thinking of cutting Elderfang Disciple. It's been working really well for me in standard so I'd figured I'd give it a try in commander. But she doesn't really move the deck forward.

Cathar Commando isn't a bad idea. My play group doesn't run allot of planeswalkers but they do tend to run allot of artifacts/enchantments. I'll see if my local store has the commando.

Fleshtaker isn't a primary sac outlet but as a way to dig when I sacrifice a creature before drawing off another trigger.

Since posting this I did manage to cut the last six cards if y'all would be interested in the deck list. Ran through some hands with it and it pretty reliably hits a win condition by around turn five.