Silverquill Influence by Fjord

Format: Commander

Commander: Killian, Decisive Mentor

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Orzhov Aura-Voltron deck is helmed by Killian, Decisive Mentor, whose enchantment-ETB trigger goads an opponent's creature and whose attack trigger draws a card whenever an Aura-enchanted creature swings. The game plan is to deploy a dense aura package (30+ Auras) onto the commander and a handful of enchantress creatures, generating overwhelming card advantage, cost reduction, and forced combat to control the table. The primary win condition is commander damage via a heavily suited-up Killian, with backup from large creatures like Kor Spiritdancer and Eidolon of Countless Battles. The deck leans into redundancy rather than combo, using goad auras and protection spells to ensure its threats connect over repeated turns.

Decklist (102 cards)

  • 1 All That Glitters
  • 1 Angelic Destiny
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Banishing Light
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chains of Custody
  • 1 Codsworth, Handy Helper
  • 1 Coercive Impetus
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Daybreak Coronet
  • 1 Demonic Embrace
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Eidolon of Countless Battles
  • 1 Eiganjo Dynastorian // Replenish
  • 1 Eriette of the Charmed Apple
  • 1 Ethereal Armor
  • 1 Eye of Nidhogg
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feather of Flight
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flickering Ward
  • 1 Forum of Amity
  • 1 Ghoulish Impetus
  • 1 Gift of Immortality
  • 1 Hateful Eidolon
  • 1 Herald of Amity
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Killian, Decisive Mentor
  • 1 Killian, Ink Duelist
  • 1 Kor Spiritdancer
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice
  • 1 Lord Skitter's Blessing
  • 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Mantle of the Ancients
  • 1 Martial Impetus
  • 1 Mesa Enchantress
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Open the Armory
  • 1 Parasitic Impetus
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pearl-Ear, Imperial Advisor
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Raffine's Guidance
  • 1 Razorgrass Ambush // Razorgrass Field
  • 1 Redemption Arc
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Rune of Mortality
  • 1 Sage's Reverie
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Shardmage's Rescue
  • 1 Sheltered by Ghosts
  • 1 Shielded by Faith
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Silverquill Campus
  • 1 Silverquill Charm
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songbirds' Blessing
  • 1 Spirit Mantle
  • 1 Sram, Senior Edificer
  • 1 Starfield Mystic
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Timely Ward
  • 1 Transcendent Envoy
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Twinblade Blessing
  • 1 Umbral Expanse
  • 1 Vanishing Verse
  • 1 Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Winds of Rath