Esper Vamps by Papa_Swoose

Format: Commander

Commander: Elenda and Azor

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Elenda and Azor commands an Esper engine that converts mass card draw into an army of lifelinking Vampire Knights. The deck leverages burst draw spells, wheel effects, and passive card advantage engines like Rhystic Study and Consecrated Sphinx to generate massive token swarms at each end step. You can overwhelm opponents through wide combat buffed by Cathars' Crusade and Knowledge Is Power, or drain life totals directly using Corpse Knight, Ayara, and Smitten Swordmaster. Additionally, the deck features a lethal two-card loop between Queza, Augur of Agonies and Drogskol Reaver to drain the table or draw out into Laboratory Maniac.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bard, King of Dale
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cathars' Crusade
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Cordial Vampire
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Crawlspace
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Curiosity Crafter
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drogskol Reaver
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Echo of Eons
  • 1 Elenda and Azor
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Harmonized Crescendo
  • 1 Intruder Alarm
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Knight Exemplar
  • 1 Knowledge Is Power
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Olivia's Wrath
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smitten Swordmaster // Curry Favor
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Tolarian Winds
  • 1 Transcendent Message
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Verrak, Warped Sengir
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vodalian Wave-Knight
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wintermoor Commander
  • 1 Wizard Class