Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar by Deathtone98

Format: Commander

Commander: Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar and Haunted One

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a mono-black Aristocrats and Cleric/Human tribal value deck helmed by the partner pair Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar and Haunted One. The core plan uses Shadowheart as a repeatable sacrifice outlet and card-advantage engine while Haunted One turns every tap into a temporary anthem and undying shield for the team (especially once Maskwood Nexus or shared types line up). The deck drains the table through death triggers (Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Bastion of Remembrance, Ayara, First of Locthwain, Syr Konrad, the Grim), reloads with recursion and undying, and closes via big black finishers (Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Exsanguinate, Torment of Hailfire, Bolas's Citadel). Secondary angles include edict pressure (Grave Pact, Plaguecrafter, Tergrid, God of Fright) and incremental combat with the Haunted One pump. It is a grindy midrange aristocrats list rather than a combo deck.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherborn Marauder
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Big Game Hunter
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bog Witch
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bonecaller Cleric
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dire Fleet Hoarder
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Doomed Necromancer
  • 1 Everglades
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fain, the Broker
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Haunted One
  • 1 Heartless Act
  • 1 Heartstone
  • 1 Hex Parasite
  • 1 Hexavus
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Mage-Ring Network
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Master of Dark Rites
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Power Conduit
  • 1 Pride of the Perfect
  • 1 Priest of Gix
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Retribution of the Ancients
  • 1 Rotlung Reanimator
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Shadow-Rite Priest
  • 1 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Skemfar Shadowsage
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Species Specialist
  • 1 Spellbook
  • 1 Spike Cannibal
  • 28 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Taborax, Hope's Demise
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Undercity Scrounger
  • 1 Venser's Journal
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Whisper, Blood Liturgist
  • 1 Witch of the Moors
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Xathrid Necromancer
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat