Shadrix by user5002711

Format: Commander

Commander: Shadrix Silverquill

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov aristocrats and token-based midrange strategy commanded by Shadrix Silverquill. The game plan revolves around generating wide boards of creature tokens using the commander, planeswalkers like Elspeth, Sun's Champion, and spells such as Increasing Devotion and Blot Out the Sky. It converts these tokens into card advantage, mana, and table-wide life drain using sacrifice outlets like Ashnod's Altar and Viscera Seer paired with aristocrat staples including Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Bastion of Remembrance, and Mirkwood Bats. High-impact finishers such as Cathars' Crusade, Teysa Karlov, and Bolas's Citadel accelerate the clock, allowing the deck to close out the game through lethal combat and drain triggers. The deck also fields a comprehensive suite of instant-speed spot removal and asymmetric creature edicts to keep opposing aggressive and combo strategies in check while developing its own board.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Basri's Lieutenant
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blot Out the Sky
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Castle Ardenvale
  • 1 Cathars' Crusade
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Combat Calligrapher
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Deathbringer Liege
  • 1 Debt to the Deathless
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Divine Visitation
  • 1 Dramatic Finale
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
  • 1 Enduring Innocence
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fain, the Broker
  • 1 Felidar Retreat
  • 1 Felisa, Fang of Silverquill
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fracture
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Immortal Servitude
  • 1 Increasing Devotion
  • 1 Intangible Virtue
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Kaya's Guile
  • 1 Martial Coup
  • 1 Mentor of the Meek
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Requiem Angel
  • 1 Secure the Wastes
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 Utter End
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat