deck by user8246058

Format: Commander

Commander: Sakashima of a Thousand Faces and Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck pairs Sakashima of a Thousand Faces and Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel to execute a potent Dimir Aristocrats game plan amplified by clone effects. The strategy focuses on generating token fodder through cards like Ophiomancer, Grave Titan, and Nadier, then converting those tokens into massive card draw and life drain using Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, Ashnod's Altar, Skullclamp, and drain payoffs such as Blood Artist, Bastion of Remembrance, and Mirkwood Bats. Sakashima and other clone effects like Spark Double provide exceptional flexibility by copying the most impactful creature on the battlefield without legend rule restrictions, effectively doubling token creation or drain triggers. Robust interaction, including Fierce Guardianship, Mana Drain, and Toxic Deluge, protects the engine while controlling opposing threats. The deck reliably achieves engine assembly by Turn 4, presents a must-answer board on Turn 5, and drains the entire table out by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agent of Treachery
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Body Double
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Clever Impersonator
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fountainport
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phantasmal Image
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
  • 1 Sakashima's Student
  • 1 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Stunt Double
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat