2cmc or bust by Fredrikie

Format: Commander

Commander: Amalia Benavides Aguirre

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is an Orzhov life-gain aristocrats deck built around Amalia Benavides Aguirre's unique scaling ability. The primary plan is to gain life in large bursts so Amalia explores repeatedly, stacking +1/+1 counters until she reaches exactly 20 power, at which point she destroys all other creatures - a one-sided board wipe that leaves a 20/20 commander to close the game. The deck is packed with redundant life-gain-on-ETB pieces (Soul Warden, Soul's Attendant, Suture Priest, Hinterland Sanctifier, Lifecreed Duo, Guide of Souls, Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim) that each trigger an explore, plus a full aristocrat drain package (Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Vengeful Bloodwitch, Marionette Apprentice, The Meathook Massacre) as a parallel, commander-independent win. Recursion via Living Death, Raise the Past, and Recommission keeps the engine grinding, while Blind Obedience, Drannith Magistrate, and Grand Abolisher slow opponents down.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Accursed Marauder
• 1 Amalia Benavides Aguirre
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Austere Command
• 1 Authority of the Consuls
• 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
• 1 Blind Obedience
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Blood Seeker
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Case of the Stashed Skeleton
• 1 Castle Ardenvale
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Children of Korlis
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Collective Effort
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cosmic Intervention
• 1 Damn
• 1 Dark Confidant
• 1 Dawn Charm
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Dockside Chef
• 1 Drannith Magistrate
• 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
• 1 Entrapment Maneuver
• 1 Essence Channeler
• 1 Eviscerator's Insight
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fleshtaker
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Forlorn Flats
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Goldmire Bridge
• 1 Grand Abolisher
• 1 Great Arashin City
• 1 Guide of Souls
• 1 Helpful Hunter
• 1 Hinterland Sanctifier
• 1 Inkshield
• 1 Innocent Blood
• 1 Intrepid Adversary
• 1 Jolted Awake
• 1 Knight of the White Orchid
• 1 Lifecreed Duo
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
• 1 Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom
• 1 Marionette Apprentice
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Mikaeus, the Lunarch
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Path to Exile
• 8 Plains
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Raise the Past
• 1 Recommission
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Reprieve
• 1 Scrubland
• 1 Senu, Keen-Eyed Protector
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Siege Zombie
• 1 Silence
• 1 Skrelv's Hive
• 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Skyknight Squire
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate
• 1 Soul Warden
• 1 Soul's Attendant
• 1 Spectrum Sentinel
• 1 Starscape Cleric
• 1 Sun-Blessed Healer
• 1 Sunlit Marsh
• 1 Suture Priest
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Meathook Massacre
• 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Vindicate
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Zenith Chronicler
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat