The deck by user1199162

Format: Commander

Commander: Athreos, God of Passage

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov Aristocrats strategy commanded by Athreos, God of Passage. The game plan revolves around deploying cheap, disposable creatures, sacrificing them for resource advantage, and draining opponents through death triggers. Athreos, God of Passage provides persistent pressure by forcing opponents to pay 3 life or allow dying creatures to return to hand. The deck utilizes efficient sacrifice outlets like Viscera Seer and Bartolomé del Presidio alongside premier drain effects such as Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Cruel Celebrant, and Bastion of Remembrance. To close out games decisively, the list features compact infinite recursion loops, most notably Leonin Relic-Warder paired with Animate Dead, as well as Pitiless Plunderer combined with Gravecrawler. With robust low-cost reanimation, flexible removal, and redundant engine pieces, the deck maintains continuous pressure through board wipes and attrition while steadily steering toward a lethal combo finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Athreos, God of Passage
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bone Shards
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Costly Plunder
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Disenchant
  • 1 Doomed Dissenter
  • 1 Doomed Traveler
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Eaten Alive
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Emerge Unscathed
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Hidden Stockpile
  • 1 Hunted Witness
  • 1 Journey to Nowhere
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Lazotep Reaver
  • 1 Leonin Relic-Warder
  • 1 Lunar Convocation
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 15 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Relic Vial
  • 1 Reveillark
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Serrated Scorpion
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spawning Pit
  • 1 Star Compass
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Unmake
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Withering Boon
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat