Athreos, Shroud-Veiled: Down with the Sickness by adadada

Format: Commander

Commander: Athreos, Shroud-Veiled

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Athreos, Shroud-Veiled deck is a Orzhov control/pillowfort build that leans heavily on damage prevention, mass-ping effects, and enchantment recursion. The primary game plan is to protect your life total with a dense suite of damage-reduction enchantments (Personal Sanctuary, Blessed Sanctuary, Sphere of Safety), then use repeatable damage sources like Pestilence, Crypt Rats, and Pestilence Demon to clear the board while stealing key creatures via Athreos's coin counters. The deck's slow, incremental win conditions include the Exquisite Blood + Wound Reflection combo (which drains opponents when you deal damage), Revel in Riches (treasure accumulation), or attrition through stolen creatures. The commander acts as a resilient recursion engine, but the deck can function without it via Replenish and other mass-reanimation spells.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abstergo Entertainment
  • 1 Abstruse Appropriation
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Athreos, Shroud-Veiled
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Barbed Servitor
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blanket of Night
  • 1 Blessed Sanctuary
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Council's Judgment
  • 1 Crypt Rats
  • 1 Dark Petition
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Death Pits of Rath
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Equal Treatment
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Gideon's Intervention
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grievous Wound
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Hourglass of the Lost
  • 1 Infected Vermin
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Karma
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lashknife Barrier
  • 1 Last Laugh
  • 1 Light of Sanction
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Obzedat's Aid
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Pariah
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Personal Sanctuary
  • 1 Pestilence
  • 1 Pestilence Demon
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Protective Sphere
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Replenish
  • 1 Requiem Monolith
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Serra's Sanctum
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 2 Snow-Covered Plains
  • 10 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Snowfield Sinkhole
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphere of Grace
  • 1 Sphere of Safety
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Stuffy Doll
  • 1 Sudden Spoiling
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 The Wanderer
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thrashing Wumpus
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Umbral Expanse
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Withering Wisps
  • 1 Wound Reflection