Blood Rites by Jimmydee83

Format: Commander

Commander: Clavileño, First of the Blessed

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Clavileno, First of the Blessed leads an aggressive Orzhov Vampire aristocrats strategy that converts disposable attackers into card advantage and evasive threats. The primary game plan deploys low-cost Vampires early, marks them as attacking Demons using Clavileno, and converts them into flying 4/3 Vampire Demon tokens and fresh card draws through combat attrition and sacrifice outlets like Viscera Seer and Bartolome del Presidio. The deck closes out games by combining wide combat damage from flying Demon tokens and anthem effects with non-combat life drain from aristocrat staples like Blood Artist, Cruel Celebrant, and Sanctum Seeker, grinding down opponents while sustaining your life total.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Blade of the Bloodchief
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodline Necromancer
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
  • 1 Champion of Dusk
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 Clavileño, First of the Blessed
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Cordial Vampire
  • 1 Crossway Troublemakers
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
  • 1 Dusk Legion Sergeant
  • 1 Dusk Legion Zealot
  • 1 Elenda's Hierophant
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Etchings of the Chosen
  • 1 Falkenrath Noble
  • 1 Forerunner of the Legion
  • 1 Glass-Cast Heart
  • 1 Indulgent Aristocrat
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Knight of the Ebon Legion
  • 1 Legion Lieutenant
  • 1 March of the Canonized
  • 1 Martyr of Dusk
  • 1 Master of Dark Rites
  • 1 Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 New Blood
  • 1 Nighthawk Scavenger
  • 1 Nullpriest of Oblivion
  • 1 Oathsworn Vampire
  • 1 Olivia's Wrath
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Pact of the Serpent
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Patron of the Vein
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Promise of Aclazotz // Foul Rebirth
  • 1 Radiant Destiny
  • 1 Redemption Choir
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sanctum Seeker
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
  • 1 Spawning Pit
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Twilight Prophet
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Utter End
  • 1 Vampire of the Dire Moon
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Voldaren Estate
  • 1 Vraan, Executioner Thane
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Windbrisk Heights
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan