Aristorats by user7647343

Format: Commander

Commander: Vren, the Relentless

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This Dimir deck is commanded by Vren, the Relentless and executes a ruthless attrition and typal swarm strategy. The deck converts opponent creature removal into overwhelming board presence. Vren's static replacement effect exiles any opposing creature that would die, neutralizing graveyard recursion, aristocrat strategies, and death triggers across the table. At each end step, Vren rewards this removal by creating Relentless Rat tokens that scale in power and toughness with every Rat you control. The deck leverages an extensive suite of low-cost edicts such as Accursed Marauder, Plaguecrafter, and Sheoldred's Edict to clear opposing boards while generating an unstoppable army. Complementary threats like Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm, Marrow-Gnawer, and Maha, Its Feathers Night amplify the deck's damage output and board control. Supported by robust countermagic and protection like Force of Will and Swarmyard, the deck steadily suffocates opposing resources while closing out games through lethal combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Fade Away
  • 1 Feed the Cycle
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lich's Relic
  • 1 Lilypad Village
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord Skitter, Sewer King
  • 1 Maha, Its Feathers Night
  • 1 Marrow-Gnawer
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Ogre Slumlord
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Pact of the Serpent
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rottenmouth Viper
  • 1 Scales of Shale
  • 1 Scavenger's Talent
  • 1 Season of Loss
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shoreline Looter
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Slip Through Space
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Thornbite Staff
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Valley Rotcaller
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vren, the Relentless
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Warren Soultrader