Killian v2 by Horndoc

Format: Commander

Commander: Killian, Ink Duelist

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov Reanimator Control build led by Killian, Ink Duelist. Its core strategy revolves around entombing massive, high-impact creature threats—such as Archon of Cruelty, Vilis, Broker of Blood, and Serra's Emissary—via Entomb or Buried Alive, then cheating them onto the battlefield on Turns 3–4 using efficient reanimation spells like Reanimate and Animate Dead. While the deck contains no infinite combos or extra-turn loops, it establishes commanding board states through overwhelming creature stats, asymmetric sacrifice triggers, and sustained card advantage. Killian, Ink Duelist discounts single-target spells by two mana, allowing the deck to protect its reanimated threats for a single mana using cards like Blacksmith's Skill, Gods Willing, and Loran's Escape. The deck closes games through relentless aerial combat, systematically dismantling opposing life totals and boards over several combat rotations.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abigale, Poet Laureate // Heroic Stanza
  • 1 Angel of Despair
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Ashen Rider
  • 1 Beaming Defiance
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blacksmith's Skill
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bone Shards
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Clever Lumimancer
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Corpse Dance
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dire Tactics
  • 1 Eat to Extinction
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feat of Resistance
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Forum Necroscribe
  • 1 Fracture
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gods Willing
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Killian, Ink Duelist
  • 1 Leonin Lightscribe
  • 1 Loran's Escape
  • 1 Mavinda, Students' Advocate
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Minion's Return
  • 1 Mire Triton
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Overseer of the Damned
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Professor's Warning
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Reya Dawnbringer
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Serra's Emissary
  • 1 Shelter
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Snowfield Sinkhole
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Séance Board
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Unholy Indenture
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Utter End
  • 1 Valorous Stance
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood