Lifegain Staxx by AshleyyyBuilds

Format: Commander

Commander: Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov lifegain combo-control deck commanded by Sorin of House Markov. The primary game plan focuses on establishing early lifegain engines, creating defensive tax barriers, and assembling deterministic life-drain combos. In the early game, cheap lifegain enablers like Soul Warden and Authority of the Consuls trigger Sorin's transformation into a planeswalker, generating Food tokens and removal. Defensive pillowfort pieces like Ghostly Prison and Silent Arbiter stall opposing combat aggression while card draw engines like The Gaffer and Phyrexian Arena dig through the library. The deck finishes games around Turn 6 by pairing life-gain triggers with infinite drain loops via Exquisite Blood or Bloodthirsty Conqueror alongside Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Sanguine Bond, or Enduring Tenacity. Alternate win conditions include Aetherflux Reservoir, Felidar Sovereign, and Bolas's Citadel. The deck excels at stabilizing its life total and executing same-turn combo kills, though it lacks direct tutors and stack-based countermagic.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1 Alhammarret's Archive
• 1 Angel of Vitality
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archivist of Oghma
• 1 Astarion, the Decadent
• 1 Authority of the Consuls
• 1 Beacon of Immortality
• 1 Bloodchief Ascension
• 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
• 1 Bolas's Citadel
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Celestial Convergence
• 1 Celestial Mantle
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Crypt Ghast
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Defense Grid
• 1 Doctor Strange, Surgeon
• 1 Elenda, Saint of Dusk
• 1 Enduring Tenacity
• 1 Exemplar of Light
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exquisite Blood
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Felidar Sovereign
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Ghostly Prison
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
• 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1 Greed
• 1 Heliod's Intervention
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Jet Medallion
• 1 Koskun Falls
• 1 Liesa, Forgotten Archangel
• 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Mister Negative
• 1 Mortify
• 1 No Mercy
• 1 Norn's Annex
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Peacekeeper
• 1 Pearl Medallion
• 1 Phyrexian Arena
• 12 Plains
• 1 Rhox Faithmender
• 1 Sanguine Bond
• 1 Shadowy Backstreet
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Silent Arbiter
• 1 Silverquill, the Disputant
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate
• 1 Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord
• 1 Soul Warden
• 1 Soul's Attendant
• 1 Spirit of the Labyrinth
• 1 Surge of Salvation
• 13 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Temple of Silence
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 Temporal Extortion
• 1 Test of Endurance
• 1 The Gaffer
• 1 The Wind Crystal
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Tree of Perdition
• 1 Twilight Prophet
• 1 Tymna the Weaver
• 1 Unstoppable Slasher
• 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose