Scarlet Sweet Sanguine by LunarMageDeluge

Format: Commander

Commander: Astarion, the Decadent

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

An Orzhov Vampire aristocrats deck built around Astarion's end-step multiplier. It converts lifegain, death triggers, and attack drains into board advantage, then closes with repeated Exsanguinate-style effects and a Blood Tribute kill. The commander is a finisher rather than a necessary engine; if he is removed, the deck still grinds through Clavileno, Elenda, Blood Artist, and recursion. It is a deliberate midrange attrition deck with no fast infinite combo and no counterspells, so games often extend to turns 8 or 9 before the final drain clears all opponents.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Amalia Benavides Aguirre
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Astarion, the Decadent
• 1 Austere Command
• 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Blood Tribute
• 1 Bloodghast
• 1 Bloodline Bidding
• 1 Bloodtracker
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Butcher of Malakir
• 1 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
• 1 Champion of Dusk
• 1 Charismatic Conqueror
• 1 Clavileño, First of the Blessed
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cordial Vampire
• 1 Crossway Troublemakers
• 1 Cruel Celebrant
• 1 Damn
• 1 Debt to the Deathless
• 1 Drana's Emissary
• 1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
• 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
• 1 Dusk Legion Sergeant
• 1 Dusk Legion Zealot
• 1 Elenda's Hierophant
• 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
• 1 Essence Channeler
• 1 Etchings of the Chosen
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Fiendish Panda
• 1 Indulgent Aristocrat
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Legion Lieutenant
• 1 Master of Dark Rites
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Necromantic Selection
• 1 Nighthawk Scavenger
• 1 Oathsworn Vampire
• 1 Olivia's Wrath
• 1 Order of Sacred Dusk
• 1 Orzhov Basilica
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Pact of the Serpent
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Patron of the Vein
• 7 Plains
• 1 Promise of Aclazotz // Foul Rebirth
• 1 Radiant Destiny
• 1 Rejoin the Fight
• 1 Return to Dust
• 1 Riot Control
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Sanctum Seeker
• 1 Secluded Courtyard
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
• 1 Stromkirk Bloodthief
• 12 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Tainted Field
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Temple of Silence
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 Tithe Drinker
• 1 Twilight Prophet
• 1 Unclaimed Territory
• 1 Utter End
• 1 Vault of the Archangel
• 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Voldaren Estate
• 1 Vona, Butcher of Magan
• 1 Welcoming Vampire
• 1 Windbrisk Heights
• 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan