Clavileño by Carlota

Format: Commander

Commander: Clavileño, First of the Blessed

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov Vampire Aristocrats strategy commanded by Clavileño, First of the Blessed. The deck focuses on deploying efficient low-cost Vampires in the opening turns, casting Clavileño on curve, and attacking to turn those Vampires into Demons with death triggers. When these modified creatures die in combat or to sacrifice outlets like Bartolomé del Presidio and Viscera Seer, they replace themselves by drawing cards and spawning 4/3 flying Vampire Demon tokens. As the aerial army expands, aristocrat drain engines like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Bastion of Remembrance bleed opponents life totals. While the deck lacks fast mana, tutors, or infinite combos, it generates steady card advantage and board presence, culminating in a wide flying alpha strike and mass sacrifice finish around Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adanto Vanguard
  • 1 Akroma's Vengeance
  • 1 Amalia Benavides Aguirre
  • 1 Ancient Craving
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baron Bertram Graywater
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bishop of Binding
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Borrowed Time
  • 1 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Clavileño, First of the Blessed
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Cordial Vampire
  • 1 Crossway Troublemakers
  • 1 Day of Judgment
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dusk Legion Sergeant
  • 1 Elenda's Hierophant
  • 1 Elenda, Saint of Dusk
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Etchings of the Chosen
  • 1 Flowering of the White Tree
  • 1 Forerunner of the Legion
  • 1 Gix's Command
  • 1 High-Society Hunter
  • 1 Indulging Patrician
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Knight of the Ebon Legion
  • 1 Legion Lieutenant
  • 1 Markov Baron
  • 1 Martyr of Dusk
  • 1 Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Minimus Containment
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Neglected Manor
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Patron of the Vein
  • 13 Plains
  • 1 Restless Fortress
  • 1 Ruthless Lawbringer
  • 1 Sanguine Evangelist
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Sheltered by Ghosts
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord
  • 1 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 16 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Transmogrant's Crown
  • 1 Treacherous Greed
  • 1 Twilight Prophet
  • 1 Utter End
  • 1 Vampire Gourmand
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Fanatic of Aclazotz
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Voldaren Estate
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat