Elenda, The Dusk Rose by gamarimon95

Format: Commander

Commander: Elenda, the Dusk Rose

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Elenda, the Dusk Rose leads an Orzhov sacrifice/value deck. You win by generating bodies, sacrificing them to outlets like Viscera Seer or Ashnod's Altar, and converting every death into drain via Blood Artist, Bastion of Remembrance, Elas il-Kor, Cruel Celebrant, or Mirkwood Bats. Elenda is both a sacrifice sink that grows with each death and a payoff: when she dies she turns her power into a swarm of lifelink Vampires. The main deterministic win is the Ashnod's Altar + Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + drain outlet loop. Secondary paths are Black Market/Bolas's Citadel into Debt to the Deathless or Champions from Beyond. Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince is a hidden transform finisher in the land base.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Carrier Thrall
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Champions from Beyond
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Debt to the Deathless
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Fanatical Devotion
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fix What's Broken
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Greedy Freebooter
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Indulgent Aristocrat
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
  • 1 Martyr's Cause
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Secluded Steppe
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 The Masamune
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Vat of Rebirth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan