Bertram

Format: Commander

Commander: Baron Bertram Graywater

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov Aristocrats and token-drain strategy led by Baron Bertram Graywater. The game plan revolves around generating small creature and artifact tokens (Vampires, Mercenaries, Blood, Treasures, and Snakes) and converting them into steady card advantage, mana velocity, and table-wide life drain. In the early game, the deck deploys resilient fodder such as Ophiomancer, Doomed Dissenter, and Shambling Ghast, setting up Baron Bertram Graywater on curve. Once established, Baron converts tokens into card draw while replenishing the board with lifelink Vampire Rogue tokens. Mid-to-late game transitions into lethal pressure via drain multipliers like Bastion of Remembrance, Kambal, Profiteering Mayor, Falkenrath Noble, and Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, backed by game-swinging bombs like Massacre Wurm and Exsanguinate. While the deck features outstanding spot removal across all permanent types and strong engine recovery through natural redundancy, it lacks countermagic and dedicated board protection, making it reliant on rebuilding rather than deflecting opposing board wipes.

Decklist (94 cards)

• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arid Archway
• 1 Authority of the Consuls
• 1 Baron Bertram Graywater
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Blood Fountain
• 1 Cave of Temptation
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Concealed Courtyard
• 1 Conduit Pylons
• 1 Corrupted Conviction
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Dire Fleet Hoarder
• 1 Doomed Dissenter
• 1 Dusk // Dawn
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Expedition Map
• 1 Expel the Interlopers
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Fake Your Own Death
• 1 Falkenrath Noble
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Felidar Retreat
• 1 Fomori Vault
• 1 Forlorn Flats
• 1 Gluttonous Guest
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Gold Pan
• 1 Helping Hand
• 1 Hour of Reckoning
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Infestation Sage
• 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
• 1 Lassoed by the Law
• 1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
• 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
• 1 Massacre Wurm
• 1 Mentor of the Meek
• 1 Midnight Reaper
• 1 Mirage Mesa
• 1 Monologue Tax
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 1 Mourner's Surprise
• 1 Murder
• 1 Nezumi Linkbreaker
• 1 Ophiomancer
• 1 Orzhov Guildgate
• 1 Ozox, the Clattering King
• 1 Pitiless Carnage
• 1 Pitiless Plunderer
• 5 Plains
• 1 Rakish Crew
• 1 Reassembling Skeleton
• 1 Ruthless Lawbringer
• 1 Ruthless Technomancer
• 1 Scoured Barrens
• 1 Shambling Ghast
• 1 Silverquill Campus
• 1 Stroke of Midnight
• 18 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Temple of Silence
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Thriving Heath
• 1 Thriving Moor
• 1 Tragic Slip
• 1 Treasure Dredger
• 1 Unscrupulous Contractor
• 1 Vampiric Rites
• 1 Vanishing Verse
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose