Hei Bai, Spirit of Balance by Hinokacopter

Format: Commander

Commander: Hei Bai, Spirit of Balance

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This Orzhov (+1/+1 counters and sacrifice) deck is helmed by Hei Bai, Spirit of Balance, a value engine that grows by sacrificing creatures or artifacts and then passes its counters on death. The primary game plan is to generate incremental advantage through death triggers (Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Cruel Celebrant, Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim), token generation (Oketra's Monument, Felisa, Fang of Silverquill, Elenda, the Dusk Rose), and recursion (Sun Titan, Victimize, Ascend from Avernus). The deck aims to win by draining opponents out with repeated sacrifice loops or by building an unblockable, oversized commander via Rogue's Passage and Cathars' Crusade. It lacks fast combos and relies on sustained value to outlast opponents.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Airbender's Reversal
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ascend from Avernus
• 1 Austere Command
• 1 Barrensteppe Siege
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Bender's Waterskin
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Bloodghast
• 1 Buzzard-Wasp Colony
• 1 Castle Ardenvale
• 1 Cathars' Crusade
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cruel Celebrant
• 1 Damn
• 1 Day of Black Sun
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Desolate Mire
• 1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
• 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
• 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
• 1 Enter the Avatar State
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Feast of the Victorious Dead
• 1 Felisa, Fang of Silverquill
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Fiendish Panda
• 1 Fire Navy Trebuchet
• 1 Ghostly Prison
• 1 Hei Bai, Spirit of Balance
• 1 High Market
• 1 Inkshield
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Joo Dee, One of Many
• 1 June, Bounty Hunter
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Luminous Broodmoth
• 1 Mechanical Glider
• 1 Merchant of Many Hats
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 1 Mortify
• 1 Oketra's Monument
• 1 Orzhov Basilica
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Personify
• 1 Phoenix Fleet Airship
• 1 Pirate Peddlers
• 10 Plains
• 1 Pretending Poxbearers
• 1 Realm of Koh
• 1 Reassembling Skeleton
• 1 Resourceful Defense
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Sandbender Scavengers
• 1 Scoured Barrens
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Suki, Courageous Rescuer
• 1 Sun Titan
• 10 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Tainted Field
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Tarrian's Soulcleaver
• 1 Temple of Silence
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Teysa Karlov
• 1 That's Rough Buddy
• 1 The Fire Nation Drill
• 1 Tolls of War
• 1 United Front
• 1 Vault of the Archangel
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat