E by user3211500

Format: Commander

Commander: Elves of Deep Shadow

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari big-mana stompy strategy that uses its commander, Elves of Deep Shadow, to accelerate into three-mana ramp spells and landcycling effects. By developing consistent mana ramp across the early turns, the deck reaches six to eight mana by Turn 5 to cast large trampling creatures, cascade threats, and monarch or initiative engines. It controls opposing creature swarms using scalable sweepers like Pestilence, Crypt Rats, and Evincar's Justice, while stripping cards from opposing hands with spells such as Syphon Mind and Unnerve. Without infinite combos or haste enablers, the deck closes the game through multi-turn combat damage using behemoths like Ulamog's Crusher, Annoyed Altisaur, and Crash of Rhino Beetles. Its land-based ramp makes the engine highly resilient to board wipes, although its reliance on slow combat steps leaves it vulnerable to instant-speed removal and faster combo decks.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Annoyed Altisaur
  • 1 Avenging Hunter
  • 1 Basilica Screecher
  • 1 Beacon Behemoth
  • 1 Beastrider Vanguard
  • 1 Beneath the Sands
  • 1 Bonder's Ornament
  • 1 Boulderbranch Golem
  • 1 Bramble Wurm
  • 1 Colossal Dreadmask
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Crash of Rhino Beetles
  • 1 Crypt Rats
  • 1 Dead Ringers
  • 1 Drown in Sorrow
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Entourage of Trest
  • 1 Evincar's Justice
  • 1 Eyeblight Massacre
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 20 Forest
  • 1 Generous Ent
  • 1 Golgari Cluestone
  • 1 Golgari Locket
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Greater Tanuki
  • 1 Grow from the Ashes
  • 1 Growth Spasm
  • 1 Heaped Harvest
  • 1 Infernal Idol
  • 1 Krosan Tusker
  • 1 Loathsome Curator
  • 1 Maelstrom Colossus
  • 1 Malboro
  • 1 Malevolent Rumble
  • 1 Natural Reclamation
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nylea's Forerunner
  • 1 Nyxborn Hydra
  • 1 Orazca Relic
  • 1 Oubliette
  • 1 Overgrowth
  • 1 Path to the Festival
  • 1 Pestilence
  • 1 Phyrexian Gargantua
  • 1 Pinnacle Kill-Ship
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Roamer's Routine
  • 1 Rot-Tide Gargantua
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Soul Stair Expedition
  • 1 Staunch Throneguard
  • 1 Suffocating Fumes
  • 1 Summon: Fat Chocobo
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Tasigur's Cruelty
  • 1 They Went This Way
  • 1 Thorn of the Black Rose
  • 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
  • 1 Ulamog's Crusher
  • 1 Underdark Explorer
  • 1 Unnerve
  • 1 Vicious Battlerager
  • 1 Walk with the Ancestors
  • 1 Warped Tusker
  • 1 Wildheart Invoker
  • 1 You Meet in a Tavern