Silverquill, The Disputant by FilipinoStarkey

Format: Commander

Commander: Silverquill, the Disputant

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Orzhov token-and-drain deck, helmed by Silverquill, the Disputant, aims to flood the battlefield with 1/1 creature tokens and drain opponents incrementally through death triggers. The commander's casualty 1 ability doubles the most impactful token-making instants and sorceries, turning a single Increasing Devotion into ten tokens and a Lingering Souls into four spirits. Multiple drain permanents-Bastion of Remembrance, Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim, Mirkwood Bats, Nadier's Nightblade-convert every token death into life loss across the table. Sacrifice outlets like Ashnod's Altar and Ruthless Knave enable value loops and can generate infinite colorless mana with Pitiless Plunderer and Reassembling Skeleton, fueling a devastating Debt to the Deathless. The deck lacks speed and explosive starts, relying on incremental advantage and eventual combo finishes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ambition's Cost
  • 1 Ancient Craving
  • 1 Antiquities on the Loose
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Battle Screech
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Call the Coppercoats
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Cost of Brilliance
  • 1 Costly Plunder
  • 1 Dalkovan Encampment
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Debt to the Deathless
  • 1 Decode Transmissions
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Feed the Infection
  • 1 Forlorn Flats
  • 1 Forsaken Sanctuary
  • 1 Forum of Amity
  • 1 Goldmire Bridge
  • 1 Great Hall of the Biblioplex
  • 1 Group Project
  • 1 Gruesome Realization
  • 1 Hardened Tactician
  • 1 Harsh Annotation
  • 1 Hop to It
  • 1 Increasing Devotion
  • 1 Languish
  • 1 Lingering Souls
  • 1 Martial Coup
  • 1 Merciless Eviction
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moment of Reckoning
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Ogre Slumlord
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Guildgate
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Rally the Monastery
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Release the Dogs
  • 1 Ruthless Knave
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Send in the Pest
  • 1 Shadow Summoning
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Silverquill Campus
  • 1 Silverquill, the Disputant
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Twilight Drover
  • 1 Utter End
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 White Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Witch's Cauldron