A TEST OF YOUR REFLEXES! by user5403958

Format: Commander

Commander: Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This mono-black deck leans into sacrifice, edicts, and repeated life-loss effects. Zenos yae Galvus enters as a conditional -2/-2 sweeper and transforms into Shinryu whenever the chosen creature leaves, turning Shinryu into an alternate-win flyer. The real engine is Warlock Class plus Shredder, Shadow Master: after reaching Class level 3, a single Shredder attack makes every opponent lose half their life and then lose that same amount again on the end step. Secondary paths are big-mana Exsanguinate, reanimation of demons like Zodiark and Nefarox, and incremental drains from Syr Konrad and Painful Quandary. There is no hidden commander; the deck is built around the Shredder/Warlock Class kill.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ahriman
  • 1 Alpharael, Stonechosen
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baron Helmut Zemo
  • 1 Black Cat, Cunning Thief
  • 1 Bone Splinters
  • 1 Chain Devil
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Construct a Cosmic Cube
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Doctor Doom
  • 1 Doom Blade
  • 1 Doom Reigns Supreme
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Emet-Selch, Ascian
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Extract a Confession
  • 1 Fanatical Offering
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Final Act
  • 1 Final Vengeance
  • 1 Gaius van Baelsar
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Hidden Necropolis
  • 1 Jecht, Reluctant Guardian // Braska's Final Aeon
  • 1 Lash of the Balrog
  • 1 M.O.D.O.K.
  • 1 Magitek Scythe
  • 1 Malboro
  • 1 Megrim
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Nefarox, Overlord of Grixis
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reno and Rude
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Summon: Anima
  • 1 Summon: Primal Odin
  • 27 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tarrian's Journal // The Tomb of Aclazotz
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terror Tide
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Tribute to Hunger
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast
  • 1 Vraska's Fall
  • 1 Warlock Class
  • 1 Whisper, Blood Liturgist
  • 1 Widow-Making Infiltrator
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival
  • 1 Zodiark, Umbral God
  • 1 Zombify