Orzhov Combos++ by Peroxx

Format: Commander

Commander: Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim leads a fast Orzhov aristocrats engine. The deck creates and sacrifices many small creatures, converting each death into life loss through Elas, Blood Artist, Cruel Celebrant, Zulaport Cutthroat, and The Meathook Massacre while drawing cards with Yawgmoth, Dark Prophecy, and Skullclamp. Its primary win is a recursive sacrifice loop using Ashnod's Altar or Phyrexian Altar, Pawn of Ulamog/Sifter of Skulls, and Reassembling Skeleton/Nether Traitor; tutors fetch missing pieces. Gray Merchant is a secondary devotion finish, and Westvale Abbey is an emergency beatdown transformation. The commander is an extra drain trigger, not the engine, so the deck stays functional even if it is removed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Bhaal // Bone Offering
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Amalia Benavides Aguirre
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodsoaked Champion
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Butcher Ghoul
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cartel Aristocrat
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Clattering Augur
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Cult Conscript
  • 1 Dark Prophecy
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Knight of the White Orchid
  • 1 Loyal Warhound
  • 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Nullpriest of Oblivion
  • 1 Oathsworn Vampire
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Patch Up
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rumor Gatherer
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sifter of Skulls
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 9 Snow-Covered Plains
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Whisper, Blood Liturgist
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat