Start Here by cbrand6

Format: Commander

Commander: Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim is a drain-and-gain aristocrats deck. The primary plan is to build a token swarm, then use sacrifice outlets and death triggers (Blood Artist, Bastion of Remembrance, Corpse Knight, Venerated Stormsinger) to bleed every opponent at once. The secondary path is the Exquisite Blood loop with Starscape Cleric or Vizkopa Guildmage, started by any life-gain trigger, which ends the game in one chain. Elas is the deck's cheap universal trigger, firing on both creature entries and deaths; she is supported by Teysa Karlov, Skullclamp, and Pyre of Heroes to find the pieces. There is no true hidden commander; Starscape Cleric acts as the combo catalyst and is the closest thing to a second engine.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Avenger of the Fallen
• 1 Barbed Servitor
• 1 Baron Bertram Graywater
• 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Battle-Rage Blessing
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
• 1 Cat Collector
• 1 Cathar Commando
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Clarion Spirit
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Concealed Courtyard
• 1 Corpse Knight
• 1 Dalkovan Encampment
• 1 Dalkovan Packbeasts
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Desolate Mire
• 1 Dollmaker's Shop // Porcelain Gallery
• 1 Dying Wish
• 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
• 1 Elenda's Hierophant
• 1 Elenda, Saint of Dusk
• 1 Essence Channeler
• 1 Exquisite Blood
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Feast of the Victorious Dead
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Fire Navy Trebuchet
• 1 Frontline Medic
• 1 Fumigate
• 1 Gather the Townsfolk
• 1 Gideon of the Trials
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Knight of Dusk's Shadow
• 1 Luminous Broodmoth
• 1 Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom
• 1 MacCready, Lamplight Mayor
• 1 March of the Canonized
• 1 Martial Coup
• 1 Memorial to Glory
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 1 Odric, Lunarch Marshal
• 1 Oketra's Monument
• 1 Ophiomancer
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Ossification
• 12 Plains
• 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1 Promise of Aclazotz // Foul Rebirth
• 1 Pyre of Heroes
• 1 Rabid Attack
• 1 Reassembling Skeleton
• 1 Reprieve
• 1 Rhox Faithmender
• 1 Rite of Oblivion
• 1 Scoured Barrens
• 1 Secure the Wastes
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
• 1 Soul Warden
• 1 Starscape Cleric
• 9 Swamp
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar
• 1 Tainted Field
• 1 Teysa Karlov
• 1 The Sibsig Ceremony
• 1 The Warring Triad
• 1 Thriving Heath
• 1 Thriving Moor
• 1 Tolls of War
• 1 Venerated Stormsinger
• 1 Vizkopa Guildmage
• 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan