Upgraded blood rites by user8760992

Format: Commander

Commander: Clavileño, First of the Blessed

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov Vampire tribal aristocrats build led by Clavileño, First of the Blessed. It focuses on deploying low-cost Vampires in the early turns, attacking with Clavileño on the battlefield to mark them as Demons, and sacrificing them to draw cards and create 4/3 flying Vampire Demon tokens. The game plan balances aggressive evasive combat with incremental life drain using staples such as Blood Artist, Cruel Celebrant, and Sanctum Seeker. The deck maintains steady card advantage through death triggers and wide token production, recovering effectively from removal via recursion like Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher. While it lacks fast combo finishes and high-speed tutors, its dense tribal synergies, built-in sweepers like Olivia's Wrath, and persistent flying beatdown create a resilient midrange clock capable of grinding out traditional multiplayer pods.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Blade of the Bloodchief
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 Clavileño, First of the Blessed
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cordial Vampire
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Dusk Legion Sergeant
  • 1 Dusk Legion Zealot
  • 1 Elenda's Hierophant
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Etchings of the Chosen
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 Indulgent Aristocrat
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Legion Lieutenant
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 March of the Canonized
  • 1 Martyr of Dusk
  • 1 Master of Dark Rites
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Oathsworn Vampire
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Promise of Aclazotz // Foul Rebirth
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sanctum Seeker
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Prophet
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Voldaren Estate
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Windbrisk Heights
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan