Sharuum by Atho

Format: Commander

Commander: Sharuum the Hegemon

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This Sharuum the Hegemon deck is a dedicated Esper artifact reanimator and control strategy. The primary game plan focuses on dumping high-impact artifact bombs—such as Portal to Phyrexia, Magister Sphinx, and Sphinx of the Steel Wind—into the graveyard and cheating them onto the battlefield ahead of curve. Sharuum serves as an accessible reanimation engine from the command zone, reinforced by efficient 99 reanimation spells like Reanimate and Argivian Restoration. Once deployed, the deck leverages blink effects like Ephemerate and Ghostly Flicker to double up on enter-the-battlefield triggers, decimating opposing boards and dropping life totals to 10. The interaction suite is dense, packing efficient spot removal, versatile sweepers, and countermagic. While vulnerable to targeted graveyard hate and lacking compact infinite combos, the deck commands the late game through overwhelming resource generation, repeatable attrition, and resilient artifact recursion.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Argivian Restoration
  • 1 Artificer's Intuition
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Castle Doom
  • 1 Cataclysmic Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dakkon, Shadow Slayer
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Filigree Angel
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Ginger, Queen of Sweets
  • 1 Glimmervoid
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Goldmire Bridge
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Iron Man, Bleeding Edge
  • 1 Ironsoul Enforcer
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Kaldra Compleat
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Master Transmuter
  • 1 Memnarch, the Warden
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mirrorworks
  • 1 Mistvault Bridge
  • 1 Momentary Blink
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 One with the Machine
  • 1 Open the Vaults
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Portal to Phyrexia
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Research Thief
  • 1 Riptide Gearhulk
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Scourglass
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Semblance Anvil
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Summoner
  • 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Stoic Rebuttal
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 The Ten Rings
  • 1 Thirst for Knowledge
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Thoughtcast
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Turbulent Shore
  • 1 Turbulent Wetlands
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whir of Invention
  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine