Elis is-Kor by ThurstonCounty

Format: Commander

Commander: Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a low-curve Orzhov token aristocrats deck helmed by Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim. The plan is straightforward: flood the board with cheap creatures and tokens, install death-trigger drains, and convert every death into table-wide life loss while padding your own life total. Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim is an efficient 2-CMC command-zone drain that also gains life on ETBs, but she is far from unique-the 99 is packed with redundant aristocrats (Blood Artist, Cruel Celebrant, Zulaport Cutthroat, The Meathook Massacre, etc.). Primary wins come from looping sacrifice outlets with recursive fodder and drain engines into infinite (or near-infinite) life loss; secondary paths include grinding opponents out with steady token attrition, transforming Westvale Abbey, or resolving a critical mass of doubled triggers under Teysa Karlov or Drivnod, Carnage Dominus. The deck plays at a brisk mid-power tempo thanks to its 2.40 average CMC, dense 1- and 2-drops, and card-advantage engines like Skullclamp.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Athreos, God of Passage
  • 1 Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Denethor, Ruling Steward
  • 1 Doomed Traveler
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Eaten Alive
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Field of Souls
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hinterland Sanctifier
  • 1 Hunted Witness
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lampad of Death's Vigil
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meekstone
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 1 Nightmare Shepherd
  • 1 Oketra's Monument
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rite of Oblivion
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vraan, Executioner Thane
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat