reduce, reuse, recycle by jbmtg23

Format: Commander

Commander: Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Orzhov aristocrats deck, helmed by the transformative Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight, is a relentless engine of death triggers, recursion, and combo assembly. The primary game plan is to establish a sacrifice outlet, a persist or undying creature, and a drain effect-creating an infinite loop that bleeds the table. The commander's back side, Isilu, grants persist to all nontoken creatures, making it a powerful enabler, but the deck can execute its combos through other pieces like Mikaeus, the Unhallowed or Cauldron Haze. The deck also generates value from every death with cards like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Grim Haruspex, turning creature deaths into card advantage, life drain, and further recursion. Secondary win conditions include combat damage from large creatures or Bolas's Citadel for a life-payoff finish. The deck is resilient, layered, and capable of pivoting between combo and value-based attrition.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Body Count
• 1 Body Launderer
• 1 Bolas's Citadel
• 1 Butcher Ghoul
• 1 By Invitation Only
• 1 Carrion Feeder
• 1 Cauldron Haze
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Corpse Knight
• 1 Cruel Celebrant
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Dimir House Guard
• 1 Doomed Traveler
• 1 Dread Return
• 1 Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight
• 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
• 1 Emeritus of Truce // Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fleshwrither
• 1 Forum of Amity
• 1 Get Lost
• 1 Grim Haruspex
• 1 Gríma Wormtongue
• 1 Gutterbones
• 1 Heirloom Auntie
• 1 High Market
• 1 Ichorid
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Karmic Guide
• 1 Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom
• 1 Meadowboon
• 1 Mentor of the Meek
• 1 Midnight Reaper
• 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1 Mortuary Mire
• 1 Orzhov Basilica
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Persistent Specimen
• 1 Pitiless Carnage
• 8 Plains
• 1 Plumb the Forbidden
• 1 Putrid Goblin
• 1 Reassembling Skeleton
• 1 Reprocess
• 1 Reveillark
• 1 Rite of Oblivion
• 1 Sanguine Praetor
• 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
• 1 Scholar of New Horizons
• 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Shred Memory
• 1 Snarling Gorehound
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spawning Pit
• 1 Starfield Shepherd
• 1 Sun Titan
• 10 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Tainted Field
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Temple of Silence
• 1 Twilight Prophet
• 1 Vampiric Rites
• 1 Vault of the Archangel
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Vizier of Remedies
• 1 Welcoming Vampire
• 1 Witch's Cottage
• 1 Woe Strider
• 1 Zahur, Glory's Past
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat