Elenda, The Dusk Rose :) by rukyu

Format: Commander

Commander: Elenda, the Dusk Rose

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Elenda, the Dusk Rose is a death-heavy aristocrats deck that turns small vampire drains and token death triggers into a one-turn explosion. The primary plan is to produce cheap tokens, grow Elenda with Blade of the Bloodchief and her own +1/+1 trigger, then sacrifice her to Phyrexian Altar to create a huge swarm of lifelink Vampires. Blood Artist, Cruel Celebrant, Zulaport Cutthroat, Bastion of Remembrance, and The Meathook Massacre convert each death into life loss for the whole table. A secondary control/attrition plan uses board wipes and planeswalkers, while Bolas's Citadel gives an alternate mana/life sink. The deck is resilient with recursion but has no stack interaction and depends on Elenda for its fastest kill.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adagia, Windswept Bastion
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Blade of the Bloodchief
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 By Invitation Only
  • 1 Captivating Vampire
  • 1 Castle Ardenvale
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Champion of Dusk
  • 1 Clavileño, First of the Blessed
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cordial Vampire
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Dusk Legion Zealot
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Eventide's Shadow
  • 1 Eviscerator's Insight
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exalted Sunborn
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fountainport
  • 1 Get Lost
  • 1 Gift of Estates
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grasp of Fate
  • 1 Kaya's Guile
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Miku, Divine Diva
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Profane Command
  • 1 Rankle, Master of Pranks
  • 1 Razorgrass Ambush // Razorgrass Field
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Requiem Angel
  • 1 Restless Fortress
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Species Specialist
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tarrian's Soulcleaver
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Twilight Prophet
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vein Ripper
  • 1 Veinwitch Coven
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Winds of Abandon
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat