Tevesh/Ishai by AwesomeJaa

Format: Commander

Commander: Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker and Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Aristocrats strategy commanded by Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker and Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools. The deck prioritizes board-based synergy, utilizing Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools as a reliable command-zone engine that produces sacrifice fodder and draws cards. The 99 features a high density of token generators, sacrifice outlets, and blood-artist drain effects. Without fast mana artifacts or instant two-card combos, the deck curves out naturally using a 41-land base. It establishes its primary engine on Turn 5 and turns the corner into lethal pressure on Turn 6 through mass token sacrifice and flying commander damage from Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker, concluding games around Turn 8. Interaction is focused on creature removal and selective countermagic, while resilience stems from redundant aristocrat pieces and graveyard recursion.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Bard, King of Dale
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Body Count
  • 1 Bone Devourer
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chittering Witch
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Dimir House Guard
  • 1 Doom Weaver
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elegy Acolyte
  • 1 Elenda and Azor
  • 1 Emptiness
  • 1 Emrakul's Messenger
  • 1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
  • 1 Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fain, the Broker
  • 1 Fanatical Devotion
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 God-Eternal Bontu
  • 1 God-Eternal Oketra
  • 1 High-Society Hunter
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Krav, the Unredeemed
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Martyr's Bond
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Regna, the Redeemer
  • 1 Reveillark
  • 1 Sadistic Hypnotist
  • 1 Search for Glory
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Smothering Abomination
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools
  • 1 The Council of Four
  • 1 Thraben Charm
  • 1 Time Wipe
  • 1 Transmogrant Altar
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vish Kal, Blood Arbiter
  • 1 Whisper, Blood Liturgist
  • 1 Will of the Mardu
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Witch's Cauldron
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat