Denzilore Fatehold Snowball by Flamedelf

Format: Commander

Commander: Denzilore Fatehold

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is an Azorius tempo and aggro-control list built around Denzilore Fatehold. The strategy focuses on deploying cheap evasive creatures and utility artifacts during the early turns, flashing in Denzilore on Turn 4, and converting every subsequent scry or surveil effect into permanent +1/+1 counters across the entire board. High-impact cards like Cryptic Annelid trigger Denzilore three separate times in a single turn, rapidly growing the team into lethal airborne attackers. The deck protects its board using an extensive suite of low-cost counterspells and protective combat tricks like Loran's Escape and Gods Willing, which advance the counter engine while defending key permanents. Opponents are kept off balance through asymmetric board wipes like Wave Goodbye and Damning Verdict, alongside silver-bullet stax artifacts including Cursed Totem and Weathered Runestone. The deck closes games decisively through evasive combat damage within two to three combat steps.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artificer's Assistant
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Banishing Betrayal
  • 1 Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cryptic Annelid
  • 1 Cursed Totem
  • 1 Damning Verdict
  • 1 Deliberate
  • 1 Delver of Secrets // Insectile Aberration
  • 1 Denzilore Fatehold
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Elrond, Lord of Rivendell
  • 1 Elspeth's Smite
  • 1 Envoy of the Ancestors
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fading Hope
  • 1 Faerie Seer
  • 1 Gandalf, White Rider
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Bastion
  • 1 Gods Willing
  • 1 Gossip's Talent
  • 1 Grafdigger's Cage
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 H.E.R.B.I.E., Lovable Robot
  • 1 Hermes, Overseer of Elpis
  • 1 Holy Cow
  • 1 Il Mheg Pixie
  • 17 Island
  • 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
  • 1 Kid Loki
  • 1 Kutzil's Flanker
  • 1 Loran's Escape
  • 1 Lose Focus
  • 1 Mana Leak
  • 1 March of Otherworldly Light
  • 1 Matoya, Archon Elder
  • 1 Memory Lapse
  • 1 Mindwhisker
  • 1 Mission Briefing
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 No More Lies
  • 1 Opt
  • 12 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Proctor of Potential
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Serum Visions
  • 1 Sheltering Light
  • 1 Sigiled Starfish
  • 1 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Spell Queller
  • 1 Spell Snare
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Tale's End
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Thassa, God of the Sea
  • 1 True-Name Nemesis
  • 1 Unauthorized Exit
  • 1 Unwanted Remake
  • 1 Vendilion Clique
  • 1 Wave Goodbye
  • 1 Weathered Runestone