Amalia by Grohlus

Format: Commander

Commander: Amalia Benavides Aguirre

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov Lifegain Aristocrats strategy commanded by Amalia Benavides Aguirre. The game plan revolves around deploying cheap soul-sister enablers like Soul Warden, Soul's Attendant, and Ajani's Welcome to trigger Amalia's explore ability continuously. As Amalia explores, she draws basic lands to hand, bins unneeded cards, and grows in power toward her 20-power threshold, which triggers a one-sided creature board wipe. In parallel, drain payoffs like Marauding Blight-Priest, Starscape Cleric, Blood Artist, and Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim convert each lifegain instance into direct life loss for all opponents. The deck relies on high functional redundancy, low-cost reanimation spells such as Reanimate and Unearth, and robust protection including Clever Concealment and Selfless Spirit to weather disruption. While it lacks fast mana and instant infinite combos, it steadily drains the table and closes games by Turn 8 through accumulated life loss and explosive combat swings backed by Akroma's Will.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Ajani's Welcome
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Amalia Benavides Aguirre
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Battle Menu
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bofur, Reliable Guardian // Concerted Care
  • 1 Capital City
  • 1 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Disciple of Griselbrand
  • 1 Disentomb
  • 1 Duty Beyond Death
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Foot Headquarters
  • 1 Forum of Amity
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gollum, Riddle Master
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Haliya, Guided by Light
  • 1 Healer's Hawk
  • 1 Helping Hand
  • 1 Hinterland Sanctifier
  • 1 Impassioned Orator
  • 1 Indulging Patrician
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lake-town Lookout
  • 1 Leonardo, Cutting Edge
  • 1 Lunar Convocation
  • 1 Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Martial Coup
  • 1 Misty Palms Oasis
  • 1 Moogles' Valor
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Ruin-Lurker Bat
  • 1 SOLDIER Military Program
  • 1 Sacred Cat
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Silverquill Charm
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Soulmender
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Staff of Compleation
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Suture Priest
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat