Clerics 2 by ramescuo

Format: Commander

Commander: Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This Orzhov deck helmed by Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar blends traditional Aristocrats sacrifice loops with lifegain and counter-based beatdown. The primary strategy establishes an early board state with low-cost creature fodder and sacrifice outlets, enabling Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar to grow into a formidable menace threat while passively draining the table. Redundant drain enablers like Bastion of Remembrance, Vengeful Bloodwitch, and Marauding Blight-Priest convert creature deaths and lifegain triggers into steady, table-wide life loss. High-impact midgame threats such as Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER, Righteous Valkyrie, and Luminous Broodmoth amplify combat pressure and provide insurance against opposing sweepers. The deck features potent graveyard recursion through spells like Reanimate and Priest of Fell Rites, ensuring engine recovery after removal. With versatile interaction like Damn, Snuff Out, and Massacre Girl, the deck steadily grinds down opposing life totals, closing the game around Turn 8 through accumulated drain triggers and evasive combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aerith Gainsborough
  • 1 Afterlife Insurance
  • 1 Al Bhed Salvagers
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Cat Collector
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Citizen V, Helmut Zemo
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Doomed Necromancer
  • 1 Elegy Acolyte
  • 1 Elenda, Saint of Dusk
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Essence Channeler
  • 1 Excalibur II
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fiendish Panda
  • 1 Fumulus, the Infestation
  • 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
  • 1 Haliya, Guided by Light
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hinterland Sanctifier
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Light of Promise
  • 1 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Minwu, White Mage
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Nullpriest of Oblivion
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Pre-War Formalwear
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Priest of Gix
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Righteous Valkyrie
  • 1 Rodolf Duskbringer
  • 1 Sandbender Scavengers
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shambling Vent
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Susurian Voidborn
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar
  • 1 Taborax, Hope's Demise
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 The Destined White Mage
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 The Speed Demon
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Zahur, Glory's Past