Aristocrats Bartolomé

Format: Commander

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Bartolome del Presidio leads a proactive Orzhov aristocrats deck focused on turning disposable creatures into overwhelming life drain and board control. The commander provides an efficient, zero-mana sacrifice outlet in the command zone that grows into a formidable combat threat. The primary game plan generates tokens and recursive creatures, using them as fuel for drain staples like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Cruel Celebrant. The deck can also execute an infinite sacrifice loop by combining Ashnod's Altar, Pitiless Plunderer, and Reassembling Skeleton to drain every opponent instantly. Backed by cheap spot removal and efficient card draw, the deck grinds down opposing life totals relentlessly.

Decklist (99 cards)

  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Altar's Reap
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
  • 1 Callous Bloodmage
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cast Down
  • 1 Castle Ardenvale
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Collective Brutality
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Denethor, Ruling Steward
  • 1 Disfigure
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Doomed Traveler
  • 1 Ecstatic Awakener // Awoken Demon
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Embalmed Ascendant
  • 1 Falkenrath Torturer
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Fell Stinger
  • 1 Fiend Hunter
  • 1 Funeral Charm
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Grasp of Darkness
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Hidden Stockpile
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Market Gnome
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Persistent Specimen
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Popular Egotist
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Ruthless Lawbringer
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Skyclave Apparition
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Thoughtseize
  • 1 Thraben Inspector
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Usher of the Fallen
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zahur, Glory's Past
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat