Target locked! by Geurimja

Format: Commander

Commander: Shay Cormac

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Orzhov control deck, helmed by Shay Cormac, leans heavily on bounty counter synergies and targeted removal to grind out value. The commander's activated ability strips protection from opposing permanents, while its trigger puts bounty counters on creatures you target with spells or abilities, eventually growing Shay into a respectable threat. The deck's primary plan is to control the board with a dense suite of instant-speed removal, drain opponents through death-triggered payoffs like Blood Artist and Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim, and close out with creature combat from Elenda, the Dusk Rose or token swarms. Recursion engines like Athreos, Shroud-Veiled and Reanimate provide resilience, while pillowfort effects Ghostly Prison and Blind Obedience buy time. The deck has no infinite combos and wins through incremental advantage and attrition.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Athreos, Shroud-Veiled
  • 1 Bandit's Haul
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bounty Board
  • 1 Bounty Hunter
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Brotherhood Regalia
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathbringer Liege
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Emeria's Call // Emeria, Shattered Skyclave
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fateful Absence
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Fracture
  • 1 General's Enforcer
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Halvar, God of Battle // Sword of the Realms
  • 1 Hex
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kaervek, the Punisher
  • 1 Killian, Ink Duelist
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Mari, the Killing Quill
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Razorgrass Ambush // Razorgrass Field
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reidane, God of the Worthy // Valkmira, Protector's Shield
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scolding Administrator
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Selfless Glyphweaver // Deadly Vanity
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shay Cormac
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Shoot the Sheriff
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stirring Hopesinger
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Termination Facilitator
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 V.A.T.S.
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow