New Untitled Deck by J4X0N

Format: Commander

Commander: Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is a tuned Mardu Aristocrats strategy centered on casting the sorcery back face of its commander, Awaken the Blood Avatar. The deck rapidly produces disposable creature tokens through engines like Bitterblossom, Ophiomancer, and Secure the Wastes, then sacrifices them to reduce the casting cost of the commander to just two mana. Each cast creates an immediate swing in board state by forcing every opponent to sacrifice a creature while creating a 3/6 Avatar token with haste that drains all opponents on attack. Aristocrat payoffs such as Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat turn every sacrifice into direct life loss, and Grave Pact keeps opposing boards clear of threats. Supported by efficient draw engines like Skullclamp and strong tutors, the deck exerts early pressure, recovers quickly from removal, and steadily grinds down the entire table.

Decklist (104 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood for the Blood God!
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Eldrazi Monument
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Secure the Wastes
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Teferi's Reproach
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat