elenda mod by user5708278

Format: Commander

Commander: Elenda, the Dusk Rose

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 24

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Orzhov Aristocrats strategy led by Elenda, the Dusk Rose. The game plan revolves around assembling a three-part engine: a free sacrifice outlet, a blood artist drain effect, and Elenda to generate tokens. As creatures die in combat or to sacrifice outlets, Elenda grows rapidly. Sacrificing a heavily buffed Elenda floods the board with 1/1 lifelink Vampire tokens, which can either attack or be sacrificed to drain all three opponents simultaneously. The deck also includes an alternate win condition in the Exquisite Blood and Sanguine Bond combo, which ends the game immediately upon any life change. While the deck possesses resilient recursion through spells like Reanimate and Victimize, it lacks stack interaction, dedicated protection spells, and noncreature removal, leaving it vulnerable to exile sweepers and rested graveyard hate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Back for Seconds
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Battle of Hoover Dam
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Bloodflow Connoisseur
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Darkness
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Drana and Linvala
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda's Hierophant
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Falkenrath Noble
  • 1 Falkenrath Torturer
  • 1 Faramir, Field Commander
  • 1 Feast of the Victorious Dead
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Goldmire Bridge
  • 1 Goryo's Vengeance
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Late to Dinner
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel
  • 1 Nim Deathmantle
  • 1 Orzhov Guildgate
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rescue from the Underworld
  • 1 Reverent Hoplite
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Shilgengar, Sire of Famine
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skrelv's Hive
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Utter End
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vindictive Vampire
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat