Orphan Crushing Machine by futmeh

Format: Commander

Commander: Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov Aristocrats Midrange strategy commanded by Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff. The game plan focuses on generating early mana velocity through Lotho's Treasure creation, capitalizing on opponents casting multiple spells per turn. With this mana advantage, the deck quickly establishes an engine of repeatable token producers like Bitterblossom and Ophiomancer, paired with versatile sacrifice outlets such as Viscera Seer and Warren Soultrader. Card flow engines like Morbid Opportunist, Skullclamp, and Caretaker's Talent ensure a continuous stream of fresh resources. As the game develops, the deck deploys high-impact drain pieces including Blood Artist, Cruel Celebrant, Marionette Apprentice, and Mirkwood Bats, alongside trigger multipliers like Delney, Streetwise Lookout and Drivnod, Carnage Dominus. These cards rapidly deplete opposing life totals whenever tokens or creatures enter and leave the battlefield. Robust interaction and graveyard recursion provide resilience, closing out the game through inevitable, non-combat table-wide drain.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arid Archway
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Caretaker's Talent
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
  • 1 Emptiness
  • 1 Enduring Innocence
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 1 Forlorn Flats
  • 1 Fracture
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hidden Stockpile
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mirage Mesa
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Overlord of the Mistmoors
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Recruiter of the Guard
  • 1 Sand Scout
  • 1 Secure the Wastes
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sothera, the Supervoid
  • 1 Staff of the Storyteller
  • 1 Stridehangar Automaton
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Tempt with Bunnies
  • 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Will of the Mardu
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat