Sheoldred by dennyboya

Format: Commander

Commander: Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a mono-black Sheoldred value-and-drain deck. The primary plan is to land Sheoldred, then deploy symmetric draw effects such as Seizan, Perverter of Truth and Bloodgift Demon so every opponent draw deals 2 damage while Sheoldred's lifegain pays for Bolas's Citadel and repeated draw spells. Secondary paths are a Gravecrawler/Ashnod's Altar infinite-death loop with Blood Artist, and a mana-doubling Exsanguinate finish. The commander is an engine rather than a combo piece; there is no hidden commander. The deck plays as a grindy midrange build that turns card draw and removal into life, then closes with either a combo or a large X spell.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bake into a Pie
  • 1 Bilbo's Ring
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Bladed Battle-Fan
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodgift Demon
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Burning-Rune Demon
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Champion of the Perished
  • 1 Circuit Mender
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Crawlspace
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Diresight
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Heartless Act
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 Infectious Inquiry
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mutavault
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nirkana Revenant
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Polluted Mire
  • 1 Qarsi Revenant
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reckoner Bankbuster
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Seizan, Perverter of Truth
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Sting, the Glinting Dagger
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 28 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Witch's Oven
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar