Emet-Selch, Amaurot's Shadow by darksaber611

Format: Commander

Commander: Emet-Selch of the Third Seat

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered Dimir Reanimator and Combo-Control deck led by Emet-Selch of the Third Seat. The strategy blends efficient self-mill, discard, and tutor outlets to stock the graveyard with high-value creatures and utility spells. Emet-Selch provides consistent mana-discounted recursion from the graveyard whenever opponents take damage, converting incidental drain into continuous tempo and card advantage. The deck aims to control early aggression using low-cost counterspells and spot removal while deploying value engines like Rhystic Study and Talion, the Kindly Lord. It closes the game either through an infinite life-drain loop with Bloodthirsty Conqueror and Starscape Cleric, an asymmetric library wipe via Bruvac the Grandiloquent and kicked Maddening Cacophony, or mass reanimation with Breach the Multiverse. Flexible interaction and redundant recursion make the game plan robust against standard removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld
  • 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jace, the Perfected Mind
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Quistis Trepe
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Indulgence
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temporal Manipulation
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
  • 1 Tolaria West
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast
  • 1 Wash Away
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Withering Torment