Silverquill the Discarder by Encaglion

Format: Commander

Commander: Silverquill, the Disputant

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

Silverquill, the Disputant commands an Orzhov Discard and Attrition engine engineered to systematically dismantle opposing hands while extracting compounding resource advantages. The deck's primary game plan revolves around deploying low-cost hand-disruption creatures like Burglar Rat and Virus Beetle, then leveraging Silverquill, the Disputant's casualty 1 ability to sacrifice disposable fodder and duplicate powerful sorceries, discard spells, and blink effects. As opponents are rapidly forced into top-deck mode, parity-breakers such as Waste Not, Geth's Grimoire, and Tinybones, Bauble Burglar convert enemy discards into mana, card draw, and stolen spells. Lethality is achieved through persistent group-slug drain engines including Court of Ambition, Painful Quandary, Megrim, and Shrieking Affliction, reinforced by aerial pressure from Silverquill and Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal. Additionally, the deck features a compact two-card infinite combo between an active Bloodchief Ascension and The Master of Lake-town, allowing it to instantly mill out and drain the entire table.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead
  • 1 Acrobatic Maneuver
  • 1 Airbender Ascension
  • 1 Auntie's Sentence
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Bandit's Talent
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blacksmith's Skill
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Burglar Rat
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conqueror's Flail
  • 1 Court of Ambition
  • 1 Dai Li Indoctrination
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Duress
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Elderfang Disciple
  • 1 Elvish Doomsayer
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Entropic Battlecruiser
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Flicker of Fate
  • 1 Geth's Grimoire
  • 1 Hecteyes
  • 1 Hymn to Tourach
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Justiciar's Portal
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana of the Veil
  • 1 Lunar Convocation
  • 1 Make Your Move
  • 1 Malboro
  • 1 Megrim
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Monk Gyatso
  • 1 Myrel, Shield of Argive
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Ozai's Cruelty
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Poison the Waters
  • 1 Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer
  • 1 Rankle, Master of Pranks
  • 1 Restoration Seminar
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scarring Memories
  • 1 Seeker's Folly
  • 1 Send in the Pest
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Shrieking Affliction
  • 1 Silverquill, the Disputant
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Stony-Voiced Goblins
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Haunt of Hightower
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
  • 1 Vicious Rumors
  • 1 Virus Beetle
  • 1 Waste Not