Elenda by user5646878

Format: Commander

Commander: Elenda and Azor

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This Esper deck is commanded by Elenda and Azor, combining high-velocity card draw with explosive token generation and aristocrat life-drain mechanics. The deck ramps efficiently through early artifact acceleration to deploy its 6-mana commander on Turn 5. Once operational, attacking with Elenda and Azor draws substantial bursts of cards, which converts at each end step into an army of 1/1 lifelink Vampire Knight tokens. These tokens overwhelm opponents through combat pressure enhanced by anthems like Intangible Virtue or through table-wide attrition powered by drain payoffs such as Mirkwood Bats, Nadier's Nightblade, Kambal, Profiteering Mayor, and Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER. The 99 also houses potent alternate win conditions, including a life-drain loop with Queza, Augur of Agonies and Drogskol Reaver, as well as Twenty-Toed Toad. Supported by versatile Esper interaction and board wipes, the deck establishes an inevitable midgame clock that grinds down opposing life totals while maintaining a healthy life buffer.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Barrensteppe Siege
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Captivating Vampire
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Curiosity Crafter
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Disenchant
  • 1 Drogskol Reaver
  • 1 Dromar's Cavern
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elenda and Azor
  • 1 Emrakul's Messenger
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Finale of Revelation
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
  • 1 Guide of Souls
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Harmonized Crescendo
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Idyllic Beachfront
  • 1 Intangible Virtue
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
  • 1 Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Kindred Judgment
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Marshal of Zhalfir
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel
  • 1 Occult Epiphany
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pensive Professor
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Practiced Offense
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
  • 1 Refute
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Season of Weaving
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skirge Familiar
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 1 Super Intelligence
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Thraben Charm
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Twenty-Toed Toad
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Worn Powerstone