Burakos, Hero of the folks by Nihilfox

Format: Commander

Commander: Burakos, Party Leader and Folk Hero

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov Party Midrange build commanded by Burakos, Party Leader and Folk Hero. It curves low-cost Clerics, Rogues, Warriors, and Wizards into an early deployment of Burakos. Each combat step with Burakos generates substantial Treasure mana and direct life drain based on party size, while Folk Hero and complementary draw engines ensure steady card flow. The deck uses disruptive hatebears like Drannith Magistrate and Opposition Agent to slow opposing strategies while breaking parity with asymmetric board wipes like Stick Together. Armed with surplus Treasures, the deck transitions into lethal game-enders such as Torment of Hailfire, Debt to the Deathless, or full-board combat overruns with Akroma's Will.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Angel of Indemnity
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Aven Interrupter
  • 1 Aven Mindcensor
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Burakos, Party Leader
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Celestine, the Living Saint
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Coveted Prize
  • 1 Crib Swap
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Debt to the Deathless
  • 1 Deep Gnome Terramancer
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Exalted Sunborn
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Folk Hero
  • 1 Giver of Runes
  • 1 Glasswing Grace // Age-Graced Chapel
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Hardened Tactician
  • 1 Harper Recruiter
  • 1 Hatut Zeraze Strike Force
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Keen Duelist
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mastermind Plum
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirror Entity
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 1 Multiclass Baldric
  • 1 Mutavault
  • 1 Nalia de'Arnise
  • 1 Nameless Inversion
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Redemption Choir
  • 1 Rev, Tithe Extractor
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Rhys, the Evermore
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Seasoned Dungeoneer
  • 1 Secret Tunnel
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Stick Together
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Twilight Prophet
  • 1 Tymna the Weaver
  • 1 Umbral Expanse
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Venat, Heart of Hydaelyn // Hydaelyn, the Mothercrystal
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Winnowing