Eminence Knights by Dragonslayer

Format: Commander

Commander: Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 59

Deck overview

This deck leverages Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir to execute a fast, resilient aggro-control and reanimator strategy. In the opening turns, cheap 1-drop Knights attack to trigger eminence looting, sculpting the hand while binning heavy threats such as Cavalier of Night, Herald of Hoofbeats, or Vodalian Wave-Knight. Deploying Sidar Jabari on Turn 3 or 4 quickly converts combat damage into free reanimation, establishing an overwhelming, evasive battlefield. The deck supports this aggressive clock with a dense suite of premier disruption and protection, including Fierce Guardianship, Clever Concealment, and Dovin's Veto. In the late game, recursive engines like Haakon, Stromgald Scourge casting kindred spells from the graveyard and mass reanimation via Patriarch's Bidding ensure continuous inevitability even against repeated board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage's Charm
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cavalier of Dawn
  • 1 Cavalier of Night
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crib Swap
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Defabricate
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dion, Bahamut's Dominant // Bahamut, Warden of Light
  • 1 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elenda and Azor
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Everybody Lives!
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forsworn Paladin
  • 1 Foulmire Knight // Profane Insight
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
  • 1 Herald of Hoofbeats
  • 1 Homeward Path
  • 1 Invasion of New Phyrexia // Teferi Akosa of Zhalfir
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kinsbaile Cavalier
  • 1 Knight Exemplar
  • 1 Knight of the Ebon Legion
  • 1 Knights' Charge
  • 1 Lotus Field
  • 1 Lotus Vale
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Nameless Inversion
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pull from Eternity
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir
  • 1 Smitten Swordmaster // Curry Favor
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stifle
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Student of Warfare
  • 1 Summon: Primal Odin
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Venerable Knight
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Vodalian Wave-Knight
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Wintermoor Commander