Shadowheart by user8591736

Format: Commander

Commander: Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar and Agent of the Iron Throne

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black aristocrats and reanimator strategy piloted by Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar partnered with Agent of the Iron Throne. The deck focuses on deploying high-power creatures and resilient token generators to convert board presence into massive card advantage through Shadowheart's activated ability. Concurrently, Agent of the Iron Throne turns every death trigger into table-wide life loss. The deck leverages efficient graveyard enablers like Entomb and Buried Alive alongside reanimation spells such as Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Living Death to deploy devastating threats ahead of curve. The endgame centers on compounding drain effects from Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Kokusho, the Evening Star, or assembling the compact two-card infinite drain combo of Bloodthirsty Conqueror and Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose. While susceptible to targeted graveyard exile and lacking artifact removal, its sheer card flow and threat density make it resilient and lethal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Archfiend of the Dross
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blast Zone
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rotting Regisaur
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 29 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat