Ghost Council of Orzhova by Stick4673

Format: Commander

Commander: Ghost Council of Orzhova

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 24

Deck overview

Ghost Council of Orzhova leads an Orzhov blink and life-drain attrition deck designed to outlast opponents behind pillowfort defenses while grinding down life totals. The deck integrates repeatable flicker effects from cards like Teleportation Circle, Conjurer's Closet, and Preston, the Vanisher to re-trigger enters-the-battlefield life-drain abilities. Defensive enchantments such as Ghostly Prison, Lightmine Field, and No Mercy punish aggressive combat decks, while cards like Bloodletter of Aclazotz and Sanguine Bond accelerate the clock into a decisive finish. Lacking dedicated nonland tutors and raw card-draw engines, the deck relies on steady on-curve mana and natural draws to assemble its pieces, backed up by mass-blink spells like Eerie Interlude and Ghostway to dodge board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Another Round
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Athreos, God of Passage
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Blood Clock
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Blood-Toll Harpy
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Charming Prince
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Distinguished Conjurer
  • 1 Doubling Cube
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Eldrazi Displacer
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fiend Hunter
  • 1 Flicker
  • 1 Flicker of Fate
  • 1 Flickerform
  • 1 Flickerwisp
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Ghost Council of Orzhova
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Ghostway
  • 1 Hidden Stockpile
  • 1 Howling Banshee
  • 1 Illicit Masquerade
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Lightmine Field
  • 1 Lingering Souls
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Norn's Annex
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Palace Siege
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Preston, the Vanisher
  • 1 Regal Bloodlord
  • 1 Restoration Angel
  • 1 Rings of Brighthearth
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Semester's End
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Suture Priest
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of Hearth and Home
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Umbilicus
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Veinwitch Coven
  • 1 Voltaic Key
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow