Golgari Aristocrats by nitoric

Format: Commander

Commander: Savra, Queen of the Golgari

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized Golgari Aristocrats engine commanded by Savra, Queen of the Golgari. The core strategy establishes repeatable sacrifice loops using recursive creatures and low-cost token generators such as Ophiomancer, Bitterblossom, and Gravecrawler. By pairing these fodder engines with free sacrifice outlets like Carrion Feeder, Viscera Seer, and Ashnod's Altar, the deck leverages Savra and Grave Pact to systematically clear opposing boards through forced edicts. As opponents' creatures are suppressed, life drain anchors like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Mirkwood Bats, and Syr Konrad, the Grim turn every death into table-wide life loss. The deck can close games through steady attrition, massive team buffs via Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest, or an assembled 3-card infinite loop using Pitiless Plunderer and Gravecrawler. High-quality Golgari removal and resilient graveyard recursion provide exceptional staying power across grindy multiplayer games.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ashnod's Intervention
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cauldron Familiar
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Gaze of Granite
  • 1 Golgari Germination
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mosswood Dreadknight // Dread Whispers
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pest Rescuer
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Savra, Queen of the Golgari
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trudge Garden
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vraska, Golgari Queen
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat