Tormod by Buried

Format: Commander

Commander: Tormod, the Desecrator and Ravos, Soultender

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 54

Deck overview

This Orzhov Aristocrats deck leverages Tormod, the Desecrator and Ravos, Soultender to generate incremental token armies and grind out card advantage while assembling game-ending graveyard loops. The primary win condition revolves around infinite sacrifice sequences using Gravecrawler with Phyrexian Altar, Karmic Guide with Reveillark, or Ratadrabik of Urborg with Boromir, Warden of the Tower. When paired with an aristocrat payoff like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, or Cruel Celebrant, these engines drain the entire table of life in a single turn. The deck features extreme functional redundancy across all combo components, allowing it to transition seamlessly between midrange attrition and sudden combo finishes. While vulnerable to targeted graveyard hate and lacking countermagic, its high density of cheap reanimation spells ensures rapid recovery from board wipes and removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Black Market
• 1 Bleachbone Verge
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Bontu's Monument
• 1 Boromir, Warden of the Tower
• 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Carrion Feeder
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Concealed Courtyard
• 1 Corpse Knight
• 1 Cruel Celebrant
• 1 Damn
• 1 Dance of the Dead
• 1 Desolate Mire
• 1 Despark
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Dread Return
• 1 Eclipsed Steppe
• 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
• 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Generous Gift
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Gravecrawler
• 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Karmic Guide
• 1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
• 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1 Luminous Broodmoth
• 1 Midnight Reaper
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Mortify
• 1 Necromancy
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Oversold Cemetery
• 1 Phyrexian Altar
• 1 Phyrexian Arena
• 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1 Pitiless Plunderer
• 5 Plains
• 1 Plumb the Forbidden
• 1 Ratadrabik of Urborg
• 1 Ravos, Soultender
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reassembling Skeleton
• 1 Reveillark
• 1 Ripples of Undeath
• 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Silent Clearing
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stitcher's Supplier
• 12 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Tainted Field
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Teysa Karlov
• 1 Tormod, the Desecrator
• 1 Tortured Existence
• 1 Undead Augur
• 1 Unearth
• 1 Unmarked Grave
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Vindicate
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Warren Soultrader
• 1 Wayward Servant
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat