Syr Vondam by BokitBoss92

Format: Commander

Commander: Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is an Orzhov aristocrats value deck helmed by Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar, built around the simple loop of making creatures, sacrificing them, and profiting from every death. The commander grows with +1/+1 counters whenever another creature dies or is exiled, and once it hits 4 power, its own death becomes a Vindicate-style removal spell - a nice payoff layered on top of a plan that doesn't actually need him. The deck wins through incremental drain from Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim, backed by a dense token-generation suite (Adeline, Resplendent Cathar, Endless Foot Assault, Ophiomancer) and a deep recursion package (Reanimate, Victimize, Lurrus of the Dream-Den). There is no infinite combo; the deck grinds opponents out with value, card advantage, and a heavy protection suite that keeps the engine alive through wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Agent Venom
  • 1 Ainok Strike Leader
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Avatar's Wrath
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commissar Severina Raine
  • 1 Company Commander
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Cultist of the Absolute
  • 1 Dark Prophecy
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Emeria's Call // Emeria, Shattered Skyclave
  • 1 Endless Foot Assault
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flowering of the White Tree
  • 1 Glasswing Grace // Age-Graced Chapel
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Hero's Blade
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Ondu Inversion // Ondu Skyruins
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Political Triumph
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Recruiter of the Guard
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spider-UK
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Eternal Wanderer
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Wyrm's Crossing Patrol
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat