Smoke and Dagger by Toasted

Format: Commander

Commander: Gorm the Great and Virtus the Veiled

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 18

Deck overview

The deck uses the partner commanders Gorm the Great and Virtus the Veiled to create combat pressure. Virtus the Veiled is the main engine: evasion from Lightning Greaves, Trailblazer's Boots, Shizo, Death's Storehouse, or similar cards lets it halve an opponent's life when it connects. Gorm the Great supports combat by forcing blocks, while deathtouch creatures and cards such as Lure, Noble Quarry, and Ochran Assassin shape combat. The mana base and ramp package are solid for a mid-power deck, and the deck has respectable permanent removal and creature protection. Its main problem is that life halving is not itself a complete win condition. Virtus the Veiled cannot finish an opponent at 1 life through repeated rounded-up halving, and the deck cannot reliably assemble Bloodletter of Aclazotz, Wound Reflection, or another final-damage source. The result is a functional combat engine without a dependable table-kill clock.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrupt Decay
• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 Accorder's Shield
• 1 Acidic Slime
• 1 Anara, Wolvid Familiar
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archetype of Finality
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Black Widow, Deadly Hunter
• 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
• 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Brotherhood Regalia
• 1 Captain America's Shield
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Darksteel Plate
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Deathcap Glade
• 1 Destined // Lead
• 1 Dire Fleet Ravager
• 1 Dolmen Gate
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exquisite Blood
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 10 Forest
• 1 Fynn, the Fangbearer
• 1 Glissa Sunslayer
• 1 Glissa, the Traitor
• 1 Golgari Charm
• 1 Golgari Rot Farm
• 1 Gorm the Great
• 1 Grievous Wound
• 1 Guardian Augmenter
• 1 Helm of the Host
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Leyline Prowler
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Lure
• 1 Mithril Coat
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Nightshade Dryad
• 1 Noble Quarry
• 1 Obscuring Haze
• 1 Putrefy
• 1 Quietus Spike
• 1 Raised by Giants
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Rush of Dread
• 1 Saryth, the Viper's Fang
• 1 Shinen of Life's Roar
• 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sudden Spoiling
• 10 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Taunting Elf
• 1 The Serpent Society
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Trailblazer's Boots
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Unstoppable Slasher
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
• 1 Vigor
• 1 Virtus the Veiled
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Wound Reflection
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth