This Darkened Heart by jmajewicz23

Format: Commander

Commander: Inspiring Leader and Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Orzhov deck pairs Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar with the Inspiring Leader background to turn a swarm of small creature tokens into imposing threats and fuel for massive card draw. Inspiring Leader grants all creature tokens plus two plus two while Shadowheart is on the battlefield, converting disposable one-one tokens into three-three attackers and allowing Shadowheart to sacrifice them to draw three or more cards per activation. The primary game plan overwhelms opponents through combat damage amplified by anthems and finishers like Moonshaker Cavalry. A secondary win condition bleeds the table with aristocrat payoffs like Mirkwood Bats, Corpse Knight, and Bastion of Remembrance.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Barad-dûr
• 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Bitterblossom
• 1 Call the Coppercoats
• 1 Call to the Feast
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Corpse Knight
• 1 Cosmogrand Zenith
• 1 Dalkovan Encampment
• 1 Dazzling Theater // Prop Room
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Denethor, Ruling Steward
• 1 Desolate Mire
• 1 Despark
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Dictate of Erebos
• 1 Divine Visitation
• 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
• 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
• 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1 Entrapment Maneuver
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Forlorn Flats
• 1 God-Eternal Bontu
• 1 God-Eternal Oketra
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Goldnight Commander
• 1 Grand Crescendo
• 1 High Market
• 1 Horn of Valhalla // Ysgard's Call
• 1 Inquisitorial Rosette
• 1 Inspiring Leader
• 1 Intangible Virtue
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Kabira Takedown // Kabira Plateau
• 1 Kaya, Geist Hunter
• 1 Lingering Souls
• 1 Martial Coup
• 1 Minas Tirith
• 1 Minthara, Merciless Soul
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Monastery Mentor
• 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
• 1 Moogles' Valor
• 1 Moonshaker Cavalry
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Nadier's Nightblade
• 1 Obscura Storefront
• 1 Okoye, Dora Milaje Leader
• 1 Orzhov Basilica
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Patriar's Seal
• 8 Plains
• 1 Plumb the Forbidden
• 1 Political Triumph
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Requisition Raid
• 1 Rite of Oblivion
• 1 Rootborn Defenses
• 1 Sadistic Hypnotist
• 1 Sandbender Scavengers
• 1 Scoured Barrens
• 1 Secure the Wastes
• 1 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
• 1 Shambling Vent
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Silent Clearing
• 1 Silverquill Lecturer
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Staff of the Storyteller
• 1 Suki, Courageous Rescuer
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Tainted Field
• 1 Temple of Silence
• 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
• 1 Treasure Keeper
• 1 Vanquish the Horde
• 1 Vayne's Treachery
• 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Vindicate
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
• 1 White Sun's Zenith