Killi(a)n It by Fredrikie

Format: Commander

Commander: Killian, Ink Duelist

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a focused Orzhov Aura Voltron deck helmed by Killian, Ink Duelist. The core strategy uses Killian's cost-reduction ability to deploy a dense suite of cheap Auras that grant protection, evasion, lifelink, and power boosts, aiming to win through commander damage. The deck leans heavily on the commander as its primary threat and enabler, with a secondary kill via Tainted Strike to deliver an infect-based one-shot. The 99 is packed with protection spells (both Auras and instants), targeted removal for creatures and enchantments, a small recursion package (Reanimate, Animate Dead, Sevinne's Reclamation), and a few powerful draw engines such as Necropotence and the Thorn of the Black Rose. The mana base is slow (many tapped lands) and ramp is minimal, so the deck depends on Killian's discount to accelerate its game plan.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Afterlife
• 1 Angelic Gift
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Apostle's Blessing
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Asha's Favor
• 1 Ashes to Ashes
• 1 Barren Moor
• 1 Battle Mastery
• 1 Beaming Defiance
• 1 Benevolent Blessing
• 1 Benevolent Bodyguard
• 1 Black Dragon Gate
• 1 Blessing of Leeches
• 1 Blood Pact
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Break the Spell
• 1 Cartouche of Solidarity
• 1 Cast Down
• 1 Center Soul
• 1 Cho-Manno's Blessing
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cooped Up
• 1 Crib Swap
• 1 Crypt Rats
• 1 Dark Banishing
• 1 Divine Reckoning
• 1 Doom Blade
• 1 Edge of the Divinity
• 1 Emerge Unscathed
• 1 Ethereal Armor
• 1 Expunge
• 1 Eyeblight's Ending
• 1 Feat of Resistance
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Forlorn Flats
• 1 Forsaken Sanctuary
• 1 Gift of Orzhova
• 1 Gods Willing
• 1 Goldmire Bridge
• 1 Grisly Transformation
• 1 Grotesque Demise
• 1 Heliod's Pilgrim
• 1 Hyena Umbra
• 1 Killian, Ink Duelist
• 1 Mask of Law and Grace
• 1 Necropotence
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Nihil Spellbomb
• 1 Ob Nixilis's Cruelty
• 1 Obscura Storefront
• 1 Orzhov Basilica
• 1 Orzhov Guildgate
• 1 Oubliette
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Pentarch Ward
• 1 Pestilence
• 1 Phyresis
• 6 Plains
• 1 Read the Bones
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Relic of Progenitus
• 1 Rend Flesh
• 1 Reprobation
• 1 Rowan's Grim Search
• 1 Rune of Mortality
• 1 Sadistic Glee
• 1 Scavenged Weaponry
• 1 Scoured Barrens
• 1 Secluded Steppe
• 1 Sejiri Steppe
• 1 Sentinel's Eyes
• 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1 Shelter
• 1 Shield of Duty and Reason
• 1 Sign in Blood
• 1 Silverquill Campus
• 1 Slumbering Keepguard
• 1 Snowfield Sinkhole
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Soul Channeling
• 7 Swamp
• 1 Syphon Mind
• 1 Tainted Strike
• 1 Thorn of the Black Rose
• 1 Thriving Heath
• 1 Thriving Moor
• 1 Twisted Embrace