Knights WIP by Oishiigami

Format: Commander

Commander: Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Knight tribal and reanimator strategy commanded by Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir. The game plan exploits Sidar's Eminence ability from the command zone, turning every Knight attack into card filtering that discards high-cost Knight payoffs directly into the graveyard. Once Sidar Jabari is deployed on Turn 4, his flying combat damage trigger immediately recurs these threats to the battlefield, bypassing mana costs to cheat out game-dominating creatures like Vodalian Wave-Knight, Silverwing Squadron, and Haytham Kenway. The deck consolidates its board on Turn 6 with tribal lords, anthems, and mass reanimation spells like Patriarch's Bidding and Primevals' Glorious Rebirth, presenting an overwhelming combat clock that eliminates the table by Turn 8. High-efficiency exile removal and asymmetric tribal sweepers keep opposing threats in check, while built-in indestructible effects protect the army against standard board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arvad the Cursed
  • 1 Aryel, Knight of Windgrace
  • 1 Ayara's Oathsworn
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Black Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Breathless Knight
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Coiling Rebirth
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Covetous Elegy
  • 1 Crippling Fear
  • 1 Dauntless Bodyguard
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Door of Destinies
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Etchings of the Chosen
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
  • 1 Haytham Kenway
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Knight Exemplar
  • 1 Knight of Dusk's Shadow
  • 1 Knight of the Ebon Legion
  • 1 Knights' Charge
  • 1 Lich-Knights' Conquest
  • 1 Locthwain Lancer
  • 1 Marshal of Zhalfir
  • 1 Mask of Memory
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Neglected Manor
  • 1 Order of Midnight // Alter Fate
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Paladin Class
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Persist
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Primevals' Glorious Rebirth
  • 1 Rally the Ranks
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Scurrilous Sentry
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir
  • 1 Silverwing Squadron
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 19 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thalia's Lancers
  • 1 The Circle of Loyalty
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Unburial Rites
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Utter End
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vodalian Wave-Knight
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Wintermoor Commander
  • 1 Zephyr Boots