Clavileño by ClemFandango

Format: Commander

Creator: ClemFandango

Commander: Clavileño, First of the Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov Vampire tribal aristocrats build led by Clavileño, First of the Blessed. Its main strategy leverages low-cost nontoken Vampires to attack early, turning them into Demons that yield both a replacement card and a flying 4/3 Vampire Demon token upon death. Sacrificing these anointed creatures through outlets like Bartolomé del Presidio or Viscera Seer triggers aristocrat drain engines like Blood Artist, Cruel Celebrant, and Mirkwood Bats. The deck steadily accumulates evasive power in the air while draining life across the table. While it contains the game-ending combo of Exquisite Blood and Sanguine Bond, the lack of dedicated tutors means it generally plays as a fair, resilient creature engine that closes games around Turn 8 through wide combat and burn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Amalia Benavides Aguirre
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Blade of the Bloodchief
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodline Bidding
  • 1 Bloodline Necromancer
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
  • 1 Champion of Dusk
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 Clavileño, First of the Blessed
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Cordial Vampire
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Crossway Troublemakers
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
  • 1 Dusk Legion Zealot
  • 1 Elenda's Hierophant
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Etchings of the Chosen
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Heirloom Blade
  • 1 Indulgent Aristocrat
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Legion Lieutenant
  • 1 Lunar Convocation
  • 1 March of the Canonized
  • 1 Markov Baron
  • 1 Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nighthawk Scavenger
  • 1 Olivia's Wrath
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patron of the Vein
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Preacher of the Schism
  • 1 Promise of Aclazotz // Foul Rebirth
  • 1 Radiant Destiny
  • 1 Reckoner's Bargain
  • 1 Redemption Choir
  • 1 Return to Dust
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sanctum Seeker
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Timothar, Baron of Bats
  • 1 Twilight Prophet
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Utter End
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Fanatic of Aclazotz
  • 1 Voldaren Estate
  • 1 Vraan, Executioner Thane
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Windbrisk Heights
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan