David vs Goliath

Format: Commander

Commander: MacCready, Lamplight Mayor

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This Orzhov deck is commanded by MacCready, Lamplight Mayor and focuses on low-power creature synergies, go-wide token production, and aristocrats drain effects. The game plan deploys resilient low-power token generators such as Adeline, Resplendent Cathar and Hero of Bladehold, granting them skulk through MacCready to bypass blockers. Asymmetric sweepers like The Battle of Bywater and Retribution of the Meek eliminate opposing high-power creatures while leaving your army untouched. The deck converts combat pressure into unavoidable table-wide damage using sacrifice outlets and drain pieces like Bastion of Remembrance, Blood Artist, and Mirkwood Bats. Robust defensive spells like Clever Concealment and Flawless Maneuver shield the board from interaction, while an alternate infinite combo in Exquisite Blood and Sanguine Bond provides an instant finish when combat is stalled.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Academy Manufactor
• 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
• 1 Anointed Procession
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Bleachbone Verge
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
• 1 Caretaker's Talent
• 1 Castle Ardenvale
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Clever Concealment
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cosmogrand Zenith
• 1 Darksteel Mutation
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Dolmen Gate
• 1 Dusk // Dawn
• 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
• 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1 Esper Sentinel
• 1 Exquisite Blood
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Fracture
• 1 Galadriel's Dismissal
• 1 Get Lost
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Grand Abolisher
• 1 Grave Pact
• 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1 Hero of Bladehold
• 1 Inkshield
• 1 Intangible Virtue
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
• 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
• 1 MacCready, Lamplight Mayor
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Minas Tirith
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Monastery Mentor
• 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
• 1 Mox Amber
• 1 Oketra's Monument
• 1 Oltec Matterweaver
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Phyrexian Altar
• 1 Phyrexian Tower
• 1 Pitiless Plunderer
• 7 Plains
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Prismatic Vista
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Reprieve
• 1 Retribution of the Meek
• 1 Sanguine Bond
• 1 Scrubland
• 1 Secure the Wastes
• 1 Selfless Spirit
• 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1 Silent Clearing
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul Warden
• 1 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Tainted Field
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Teysa Karlov
• 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
• 1 The Battle of Bywater
• 1 The Black Gate
• 1 Vault of Champions
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Vindicate
• 1 Voice of Victory
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat