sultai by user8930997

Format: Commander

Commander: Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper and Ghost of Ramirez DePietro

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai saboteur midrange strategy led by Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper and Ghost of Ramirez DePietro. The game plan focuses on deploying cheap, evasive creatures and stacking combat-damage triggers that draw cards, grow threats, and drain opponents. Early ramp enables Turn 3 evasive threats, followed immediately by continuous card-draw enchantments like Coastal Piracy and Bident of Thassa. In the mid-game, Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper converts combat damage into massive life totals, while defensive enchantments like Propaganda, No Mercy, and Painful Quandary deter aggressive counterattacks. The deck protects its primary attackers with hexproof Auras, ward equipment, and totem armor umbras. Without infinite combos, victory is achieved through sustained, unblockable combat pressure enhanced by +1/+1 counter engines, land-untapping enchantments like Nature's Will, and Ninjutsu payoffs like Fallen Shinobi.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agent of the Shadow Thieves
  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 Alpha Authority
  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Basim Ibn Ishaq
  • 1 Bear Umbra
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Brokkos, Apex of Forever
  • 1 Brotherhood Regalia
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Canopy Cover
  • 1 Cazur, Ruthless Stalker
  • 1 Coastal Piracy
  • 1 Combat Research
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Embrace
  • 1 Dissipation Field
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Enchantress's Presence
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Fertile Ground
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Gemrazer
  • 1 Ghost of Ramirez DePietro
  • 1 Gloomshrieker
  • 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
  • 1 Higure, the Still Wind
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hissing Quagmire
  • 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Kimahri, Valiant Guardian
  • 1 Kotis, the Fangkeeper
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Monastery Siege
  • 1 Nature's Will
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Octopus Umbra
  • 1 Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Oubliette
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Polymorphist's Jest
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
  • 1 Rancor
  • 1 Restless Reef
  • 1 Restless Vinestalk
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sea-Dasher Octopus
  • 1 Shimmerwilds Growth
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Snake Umbra
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Song of the Dryads
  • 1 Sphere Grid
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 1 Sultai Charm
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Tatsunari, Toad Rider
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Ukkima, Stalking Shadow
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Valgavoth's Lair
  • 1 Vesuvan Duplimancy
  • 1 Vicious Rivalry
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Winged Boots
  • 1 Wolfwillow Haven
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow