Elesh Norn by Liberatious

Format: Commander

Commander: Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 24

Deck overview

This mono-white deck harnesses Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines to command an army of Phyrexians, leveraging enter-the-battlefield triggers, incubation, and toxic tokens. The commander acts as both an asymmetric Torpor Orb against opponents and a Panharmonicon for your own synergistic board pieces. The deck builds velocity through token producers like Darksteel Splicer, Blade Splicer, and Essence of Orthodoxy, while proliferating poison and oil counters to overwhelm the table. While it possesses strong board-state oppression against ETB-reliant strategies, the deck is constrained by traditional mono-white vulnerabilities: limited card velocity, reliance on natural top-decks, and susceptibility to mass nonland permanent removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alabaster Host Intercessor
  • 1 Annex Sentry
  • 1 Another Round
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Argent Dais
  • 1 Attentive Skywarden
  • 1 Basilica Shepherd
  • 1 Blade Splicer
  • 1 Caged Sun
  • 1 Charge of the Mites
  • 1 Cloudpost
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Contagion Engine
  • 1 Darksteel Splicer
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
  • 1 Emeria, the Sky Ruin
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Essence of Orthodoxy
  • 1 Filigree Vector
  • 1 Flensing Raptor
  • 1 Glimmerpost
  • 1 Glistening Sphere
  • 1 Indoctrination Attendant
  • 1 Infested Fleshcutter
  • 1 Metastatic Evangel
  • 1 Mirrex
  • 1 Mite Overseer
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Monument to Perfection
  • 1 Norn's Annex
  • 1 Norn's Choirmaster
  • 1 Norn's Decree
  • 1 Norn's Inquisitor
  • 1 Norn's Wellspring
  • 1 Ossification
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pearl Medallion
  • 1 Phyrexia's Core
  • 1 Phyrexian Atlas
  • 1 Phyrexian Awakening
  • 1 Phyrexian Censor
  • 1 Phyrexian Rebirth
  • 1 Phyrexian Unlife
  • 1 Phyrexian Vindicator
  • 22 Plains
  • 1 Plated Onslaught
  • 1 Portal to Phyrexia
  • 1 Progenitor Exarch
  • 1 Realmbreaker's Grasp
  • 1 Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree
  • 1 Scrollshift
  • 1 Seal from Existence
  • 1 Sensor Splicer
  • 1 Shattered Angel
  • 1 Skrelv's Hive
  • 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul of New Phyrexia
  • 1 Soulless Jailer
  • 1 Sunder the Gateway
  • 1 Sunfall
  • 1 Suture Priest
  • 1 Tablet of Compleation
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Fair Basilica
  • 1 The Monumental Facade
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 The Seedcore
  • 1 Trenchpost
  • 1 Veil of Assimilation
  • 1 Vulpine Harvester
  • 1 White Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Zealot's Conviction
  • 1 Zenith Chronicler