Sheoldred 2 by mattbeaty10

Format: Commander

Commander: Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 57

Deck overview

This mono-black deck is commanded by Sheoldred, the Apocalypse and focuses on turning card draw and life swings into decisive win conditions. It establishes early control using efficient creature removal, hand disruption, and asymmetric stax pieces like Opposition Agent and Torpor Orb. The deck generates massive card flow through engines like Necropotence, Necrodominance, and Bolas's Citadel, using Sheoldred's passive life gain to offset steep life payments. Its primary win condition is assembling two-card infinite drain combos, most notably Exquisite Blood paired with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Enduring Tenacity, or Bloodthirsty Conqueror. Alternatively, resolving Peer into the Abyss with Sheoldred on board deals lethal damage directly to an opponent or draws half the deck to close the game on the spot. With strong tutor density and redundant recursion, the deck reliably presents game-ending lines by Turn 5.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Erebos, God of the Dead
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
  • 1 Necrodominance
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 21 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thoughtseize
  • 1 Torpor Orb
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Withering Boon