Silver and Shadow by Ioun

Format: Commander

Creator: Ioun

Commander: Noble Heritage and Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This Orzhov deck leverages the commander pairing of Noble Heritage and Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar to turn +1/+1 counters into massive bursts of card draw and aristocrat drain. In the early game, Noble Heritage offers political protection while steadily growing early creatures. Once Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar hits the board, she converts these oversized creatures into fresh hands of 4 to 8 cards. This overwhelming card advantage fuels an aristocrat strategy filled with drain pieces like Blood Artist, Cruel Celebrant, and Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim, along with token generators such as Felisa, Fang of Silverquill and Elenda, the Dusk Rose. Defensively, the deck employs pillowfort tools like Nils, Discipline Enforcer and Orzhov Advokist to direct aggression away from your life total. Games are decisively closed on turn 7 either through wide unblockable combat damage with Akroma's Will or by burning the table with drain loops.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abzan Falconer
• 1 Akroma's Will
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Astarion's Thirst
• 1 Astarion, the Decadent
• 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
• 1 Ayara's Oathsworn
• 1 Beseech the Queen
• 1 Black Market
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Breena, the Demagogue
• 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
• 1 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cruel Celebrant
• 1 Damn
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Dawn's Truce
• 1 Despark
• 1 Dusk Legion Duelist
• 1 Duty Beyond Death
• 1 Ebondeath, Dracolich
• 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
• 1 Elenda's Hierophant
• 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fain, the Broker
• 1 Felisa, Fang of Silverquill
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Generous Pup
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Guardian Scalelord
• 1 High Priest of Penance
• 1 Inkshield
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Mikaeus, the Lunarch
• 1 Minthara, Merciless Soul
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 1 Mother of Runes
• 1 Nils, Discipline Enforcer
• 1 Noble Heritage
• 1 Orzhov Advokist
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Pitiless Plunderer
• 8 Plains
• 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1 Promise of Loyalty
• 1 Psychosis Crawler
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Resourceful Defense
• 1 Retribution of the Ancients
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
• 1 Selfless Squire
• 1 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
• 1 Shadowspear
• 1 Shadowy Backstreet
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Starlit Sanctum
• 8 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar
• 1 Tainted Field
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Teysa Karlov
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Together Forever
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Vault of Champions
• 1 Vault of the Archangel
• 1 Viconia, Drow Apostate
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Your Temple Is Under Attack
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat