Cecil V1 by haddick

Format: Commander

Commander: Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 18

Deck overview

This is an Orzhov Equipment combat deck centered on Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin. It spends life through cards such as Infernal Contract, Dark Tutelage, Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz, and Equipment costs, then uses Cecil's damage trigger to reach the transformation threshold. The transformed side supplies lifelink and protects other attacking creatures from destruction, helping the deck stabilize after taking large life payments. Equipment gives the deck several routes: Swiftfoot Boots provides haste and hexproof, Trailblazer's Boots supplies conditional evasion, and Blackblade Reforged, Quietus Spike, and Inquisitor's Flail increase damage. Sram, Senior Edificer, Mask of Memory, and draw spells help refill the hand. The deck has reasonable spot removal and some protection, but it assembles slowly, depends on combat, and lacks a reliable all-player finish or sustained lock. Its strongest games create a large protected attacker rather than a compact combo kill.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adanto Vanguard
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist
  • 1 Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz
  • 1 Armored Skyhunter
  • 1 Ashes to Ashes
  • 1 Axis of Mortality
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Blood Celebrant
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brass Squire
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin
  • 1 Children of Korlis
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Danitha Capashen, Paragon
  • 1 Dark Knight's Greatsword
  • 1 Dark Tutelage
  • 1 Death's Shadow
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Essence Harvest
  • 1 Faith's Shield
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Final Payment
  • 1 Font of Agonies
  • 1 Grafted Wargear
  • 1 Infernal Contract
  • 1 Inquisitor's Flail
  • 1 Kain, Traitorous Dragoon
  • 1 Lashwrithe
  • 1 Leonin Shikari
  • 1 Lurking Evil
  • 1 Mask of Memory
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Near-Death Experience
  • 1 Necrologia
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nightmare Lash
  • 1 Oketra's Last Mercy
  • 1 Open the Armory
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Pact Weapon
  • 1 Phyrexian Processor
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Plunge into Darkness
  • 1 Quietus Spike
  • 1 Repay in Kind
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Snowfield Sinkhole
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sram, Senior Edificer
  • 1 Stunning Reversal
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 1 Surestrike Trident
  • 16 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Tainted Sigil
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Unspeakable Symbol
  • 1 Verrak, Warped Sengir
  • 1 Viridian Longbow
  • 1 Vona, Butcher of Magan
  • 1 Wall of Blood
  • 1 Withering Boon