The Good Hunter by Garultur

Format: Commander

Commander: Eloise, Nephalia Sleuth

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir Aristocrats and artifact synergy engine led by Eloise, Nephalia Sleuth. The game plan revolves around generating creature tokens, sacrificing them for value, and turning creature deaths into Clue tokens. Eloise pairs this token flow with surveil triggers to dig deep into the library. The deck converts stockpiled artifacts and death triggers into game-ending states through two main paths: mass artifact animation with Cyberdrive Awakener or Rise and Shine, and infinite aristocrat drain loops using Ashnod's Altar, Pitiless Plunderer, and Reassembling Skeleton. Strong card velocity from Skullclamp and Bolas's Citadel ensures steady resource accumulation, while Junk Winder and edict effects keep opposing boards suppressed. Operating at a focused casual power level, the deck assembles its core engine on Turn 5 and consistently threatens game-winning pressure on Turns 6 to 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bad River
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Biotransference
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contraband Kingpin
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Disciple of the Vault
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eloise, Nephalia Sleuth
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Erdwal Illuminator
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Havengul Laboratory // Havengul Mystery
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Junk Winder
  • 1 Krark-Clan Ironworks
  • 1 Kuldotha Forgemaster
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Master
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rise and Shine
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Shimmer Dragon
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sudden Spoiling
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Szat's Will
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh
  • 1 Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Time Sieve
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treasure Map // Treasure Cove
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat