Nero DEck by Leikur

Format: Commander

Commander: Ketramose, the New Dawn

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov midrange strategy commanded by Ketramose, the New Dawn. The game plan revolves around exiling cards from the battlefield and graveyards to trigger Ketramose's card-draw ability, creating a continuous flow of resources. The deck leverages efficient blink creatures such as Flickerwisp, Felidar Guardian, and Restoration Angel, paired with exile engines like Teleportation Circle and Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd. In addition to value generation, the list packs potent graveyard hate with cards like Dauthi Voidwalker and Ghost Vacuum, which simultaneously disrupt opponents and feed Ketramose. The deck closes games through alternative win conditions like Approach of the Second Sun, asymmetric life-drain bombs like Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Massacre Wurm, or infinite blink loops between Felidar Guardian and Restoration Angel with an enter-the-battlefield payoff.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
  • 1 Airbender Ascension
  • 1 Airbender's Reversal
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Another Round
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Athreos, Shroud-Veiled
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Charming Prince
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Emperor of Bones
  • 1 Ennis, Debate Moderator
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Felidar Guardian
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flickerwisp
  • 1 Ghost Vacuum
  • 1 Gixian Puppeteer
  • 1 Glider Staff
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Icewind Stalwart
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kaya, Orzhov Usurper
  • 1 Ketramose, the New Dawn
  • 1 Knight of the White Orchid
  • 1 Lich's Mastery
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 M.O.D.O.K., Evil Intellect
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Monk Gyatso
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mysterious Limousine
  • 1 Obzedat, Ghost Council
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Parting Gust
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Preston, the Vanisher
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Relic of Progenitus
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restoration Angel
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skyclave Apparition
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Vanishing Verse
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel