Shart, beloved emo girl by user3415455

Format: Commander

Commander: Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This Mono-Black Aristocrats and Reanimation deck is helmed by Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar, converting high-power creatures and sacrificial fodder into massive bursts of card advantage. The strategy establishes early mana rocks and low-cost creatures like Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia and Creakwood Safewright, deploying Shadowheart on Turn 4. Once operational on Turn 5, Shadowheart sacrifices recurring threats like Ebondeath, Dracolich to draw deep into the library. The midgame leverages powerful drain engines including Syr Konrad, the Grim, Bastion of Remembrance, and Agent of the Iron Throne, alongside reanimation spells such as Victimize, Reanimate, and Solemn Doomguide. While the deck lacks two-card infinite combos and stack interaction, it generates overwhelming attrition through non-combat life loss, board control with targeted removal, and graveyard recycling, steadily draining all three opponents to zero life by Turn 9.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
  • 1 Alpharael, Stonechosen
  • 1 Archfiend's Vessel
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bonecaller Cleric
  • 1 Campfire
  • 1 Cemetery Tampering
  • 1 Creakwood Safewright
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Deluge of Doom
  • 1 Disfigure
  • 1 Drana, the Last Bloodchief
  • 1 Drider
  • 1 Ebondeath, Dracolich
  • 1 Elderfang Ritualist
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Fell
  • 1 Forsworn Paladin
  • 1 Ghost Lantern // Bind Spirit
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 Infernal Vessel
  • 1 Into the Pit
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Last Gasp
  • 1 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer
  • 1 Lolth, Spider Queen
  • 1 Lotus Field
  • 1 Macabre Reconstruction
  • 1 Macabre Waltz
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Offer Immortality
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patriar's Seal
  • 1 Pride of the Perfect
  • 1 Pull from the Grave
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic Vial
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Shadow-Rite Priest
  • 1 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
  • 1 Skemfar Shadowsage
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Doomguide
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soul Enervation
  • 1 Stab
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 1 Stoneforge Masterwork
  • 30 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Taborax, Hope's Demise
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Viconia, Drow Apostate
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Warlock Class
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Xathrid Necromancer
  • 1 Zombify