Elenda and Azor by UTA

Format: Commander

Commander: Elenda and Azor

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper midrange token and aristocrats strategy commanded by Elenda and Azor. The game plan revolves around turning card draw into board presence and converting token generation into asymmetric life drain. In the early game, the deck establishes its mana with artifacts and land-fetch effects while deploying passive tax and draw permanents like Trouble in Pairs and Charismatic Conqueror. Once Elenda and Azor enters the battlefield on Turn 5, each card drawn fuels the end-step creation of 1/1 lifelink Vampire Knight tokens. These tokens trigger aristocrat drain effects such as Corpse Knight, Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim, and Mirkwood Bats, while combat enablers like Herald of Hoofbeats and Vodalian Wave-Knight turn the swarm into an unblockable, lethal army. Robust reactive interaction and mass protection spells like Clever Concealment ensure the deck can defend its engine and close out the game over two combat rotations.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Duneyard
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Cordial Vampire
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale
  • 1 Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda and Azor
  • 1 Elenda's Hierophant
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinator Cavalry
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Final Act
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Gift of Estates
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Herald of Hoofbeats
  • 1 Intangible Virtue
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Knight Exemplar
  • 1 Legion's Landing // Adanto, the First Fort
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Renewed Solidarity
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sanctum Seeker
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
  • 1 The Council of Four
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Turbulent Shore
  • 1 Turbulent Wetlands
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Venser's Journal
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Vodalian Wave-Knight
  • 1 Wispdrinker Vampire