To dawn by Olimtgdeck

Format: Commander

Commander: Ketramose, the New Dawn

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov attrition control shell built around Ketramose, the New Dawn. The strategy operates by stripping opposing hands through efficient discard spells while accumulating repeatable card advantage whenever cards are exiled from graveyards or the battlefield on your turn. A dense suite of low-cost exile artifacts, such as Soul-Guide Lantern, Scrabbling Claws, and Lion Sash, ensures that Ketramose reliably draws an extra card every turn cycle starting on Turn 4. Once opponents are starved of resources, the deck transitions to the midgame by deploying oppressive attrition engines including Painful Quandary, Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, and Tourach, Dread Cantor. With seven or more cards in exile, Ketramose becomes an active 4/4 menace lifelink beater that pressures life totals alongside its supporting creatures. Without infinite combos, the deck secures victory through systematic resource denial and grinding combat damage across multiple response cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandoned Air Temple
  • 1 Abigale, Eloquent First-Year
  • 1 Abstergo Entertainment
  • 1 Abstruse Appropriation
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Astarion's Thirst
  • 1 Binding Negotiation
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Black Widow, Super Spy
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cabal Pit
  • 1 Calamity's Wake
  • 1 Cloud's Limit Break
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dawn of a New Age
  • 1 Deadeye Tracker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dreams of Steel and Oil
  • 1 Duress
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Elderfang Disciple
  • 1 Epic Downfall
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Ghost Vacuum
  • 1 Glasswing Grace // Age-Graced Chapel
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grief
  • 1 Hecteyes
  • 1 Hymn to Tourach
  • 1 Ifnir Deadlands
  • 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
  • 1 Ketramose, the New Dawn
  • 1 Lion Sash
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Nihil Spellbomb
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Parting Gust
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pilfer
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Progenitus
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Scrabbling Claws
  • 1 Send in the Pest
  • 1 Shardmage's Rescue
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shred Memory
  • 1 Silverquill Charm
  • 1 Slip On the Ring
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Stave Off
  • 1 Stone of Erech
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thoughtseize
  • 1 Tinybones Joins Up
  • 1 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
  • 1 Tinybones, the Pickpocket
  • 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Utter End
  • 1 Virus Beetle
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow