Clerics by ramescuo

Format: Commander

Commander: Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov Aristocrats and Lifegain Midrange strategy commanded by Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar. The primary plan focuses on creating a self-sustaining cycle where creatures dying or entering exile grow Syr Vondam with +1/+1 counters and trigger incidental lifegain. This simultaneously fuels aristocrat drain engines like Bastion of Remembrance, Marauding Blight-Priest, and Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, as well as lifegain payoffs such as Righteous Valkyrie and Exemplar of Light. The deck develops steadily across the early turns using reliable 2-mana ramp and sticky fodder like Nine-Lives Familiar. By Turn 4, it establishes its core engine, achieving critical onset around Turn 6. Over two response cycles, incremental drain combined with large evasive attackers reduces all three opponents from 40 life to zero by Turn 8. High functional redundancy and reanimation ensure the deck remains resilient to removal, though it must navigate vulnerability to mass exile effects.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aerith Gainsborough
  • 1 Afterlife Insurance
  • 1 Al Bhed Salvagers
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Aunt May
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Cat Collector
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Citizen V, Helmut Zemo
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Doomed Necromancer
  • 1 Elegy Acolyte
  • 1 Elenda, Saint of Dusk
  • 1 Essence Channeler
  • 1 Excalibur II
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fiendish Panda
  • 1 Fumulus, the Infestation
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
  • 1 Haliya, Guided by Light
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hinterland Sanctifier
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Light of Promise
  • 1 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Minwu, White Mage
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Nullpriest of Oblivion
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Pre-War Formalwear
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Priest of Gix
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Righteous Valkyrie
  • 1 Rodolf Duskbringer
  • 1 Sandbender Scavengers
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shambling Vent
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Susurian Voidborn
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar
  • 1 Taborax, Hope's Demise
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 The Destined White Mage
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 The Speed Demon
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Zahur, Glory's Past