Shadowheart? by user8591736

Format: Commander

Commander: Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar and Agent of the Iron Throne

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 52

Deck overview

This mono-black deck combines aristocrats sacrifice loops with reanimator payoffs and an infinite drain combo. Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar acts as a potent card-draw engine in the command zone, turning sacrificial fodder and oversized creatures into massive bursts of fresh cards. Agent of the Iron Throne supplements this engine by applying persistent life drain to the entire table whenever creatures or artifacts die. The deck establishes early board control through recurring creatures like Ophiomancer and asymmetric attrition pieces like Grave Pact and Braids, Arisen Nightmare. It rapidly fills the graveyard using cards like Entomb and Buried Alive, setting up devastating mass reanimation spells like Living Death. The primary route to victory is assembling Bloodthirsty Conqueror alongside Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, creating an unbounded life gain and life loss loop that eliminates all three opponents instantly. Robust reanimation redundancy ensures fast recovery after board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Archfiend of the Dross
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blast Zone
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodline Keeper // Lord of Lineage
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Hall of the Bandit Lord
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rotting Regisaur
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 29 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat