Shadowheart, Cloakwood Hermit by user5039927

Format: Commander

Commander: Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar and Cloakwood Hermit

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Shadowheart/Cloakwood Hermit is a Golgari sacrifice-and-self-mill engine: Shadowheart turns high-power creatures into burst card advantage, while Cloakwood repays every creature that reaches the graveyard with two Squirrels. The primary plan is to mill, reanimate, and sacrifice big threats (Gigantosaurus, Ghalta, Neo Exdeath), then convert the growing token/graveyard board into trample combat or direct life loss via Jarad and Throne of the God-Pharaoh. Exdeath, Void Warlock // Neo Exdeath, Dimension's End is a hidden commander: the front flips quickly, and the back is the main huge sacrifice/attacker. Cloakwood is the enabler, Shadowheart is the draw engine, and Jarad is the closer. The deck wins through accumulated advantages, not a compact combo.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beastcaller Savant
  • 1 Bite Down
  • 1 Bone Splinters
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Chatterstorm
  • 1 Chitterspitter
  • 1 Cloakwood Hermit
  • 1 Criminal Past
  • 1 Darkmoss Bridge
  • 1 Dawnhand Eulogist
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Desecration Demon
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dread Summons
  • 1 Drey Keeper
  • 1 Earthbender Ascension
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exdeath, Void Warlock // Neo Exdeath, Dimension's End
  • 1 Fog
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elder
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Gigantosaurus
  • 1 Glimmer Bairn
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Golgari Keyrune
  • 1 Golgari Locket
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Head of the Hunt
  • 1 Hydra's Growth
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Leaves from the Vine
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Macabre Waltz
  • 1 Maelstrom Pulse
  • 1 Midnight Snack
  • 1 Midnight Tilling
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Origin of Metalbending
  • 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
  • 1 Pick Your Poison
  • 1 Pull from the Grave
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Revenge of the Rats
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Rhonas's Monument
  • 1 Rydia's Return
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Say Its Name
  • 1 Secret Tunnel
  • 1 Seedship Broodtender
  • 1 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Slaughter Pact
  • 1 Squirrel Nest
  • 16 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Throne of the God-Pharaoh
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Tragedy Feaster
  • 1 Vat of Rebirth
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wear Down
  • 1 Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist
  • 1 Zombify