amalia lurus companion by polock

Format: Commander

Commander: Amalia Benavides Aguirre

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 56

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Orzhov lifegain aristocrats engine commanded by Amalia Benavides Aguirre. The strategy deploys low-cost lifegain creatures like Soul Warden and Guide of Souls to trigger Amalia's explore ability continuously. Each explore trigger puts revealed lands into hand while binning nonland creatures to curate a stacked graveyard. The deck leverages extreme functional redundancy across lifegain enablers, blood artist drainers, and mass reanimation spells such as Raise the Past and Rally the Ancestors. When mass recursion resolves, a wave of creatures enters simultaneously, triggering dozens of lifegain instances that grow Amalia to 20 power and wipe the board. The resulting simultaneous death triggers from Blood Artist, Cruel Celebrant, and Zulaport Cutthroat drain the entire table for lethal damage. The deck operates with remarkable consistency on an ultra-low mana curve and recovers rapidly from sweepers by turning creature removal into graveyard fuel.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Ajani Resolute
  • 1 Ajani's Welcome
  • 1 Alseid of Life's Bounty
  • 1 Amalia Benavides Aguirre
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Auriok Champion
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Case of the Uneaten Feast
  • 1 Cathar Commando
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
  • 1 Deep-Cavern Bat
  • 1 Dewdrop Cure
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Essence Channeler
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Guide of Souls
  • 1 Helping Hand
  • 1 Hinterland Sanctifier
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Karlov of the Ghost Council
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Liliana the Faultless
  • 1 Liliana the Repentant
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Pile On
  • 13 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Raise the Past
  • 1 Rally the Ancestors
  • 1 Return to the Ranks
  • 1 Rite of Oblivion
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Sheltered by Ghosts
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snarling Gorehound
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 Speaker of the Heavens
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Suture Priest
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampire of the Dire Moon
  • 1 Vanishing Verse
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Voice of the Blessed
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat