Zoraline Commander by user1333987

Format: Commander

Commander: Zoraline, Cosmos Caller

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov Bat typal and aristocrat strategy commanded by Zoraline, Cosmos Caller. It uses low-cost evasive Bats to trigger steady lifegain, draw cards, and apply early aerial pressure. Zoraline acts as a persistent recursion engine from the command zone, reanimating key utility permanents with mana value 3 or less whenever it enters or attacks. The deck converts life fluctuations into direct damage through aristocrat payoffs like Starscape Cleric, Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim, and Mirkwood Bats. While it can win through sustained flying beatdown boosted by Banner of Kinship or huge swings from Bloodletter of Aclazotz, its definitive win condition is the two-card infinite loop between Exquisite Blood and drain permanents like Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose or Sanguine Bond. The deck features premium Orzhov spot removal and board wipes, backed by resilient recursion, but remains vulnerable to stack-based combo strategies due to a lack of countermagic.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Batwing Brume
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Cleric Class
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Courier Bat
  • 1 Darkstar Augur
  • 1 Debt to the Deathless
  • 1 Deep-Cavern Bat
  • 1 Desecrated Tomb
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Essence Channeler
  • 1 Etchings of the Chosen
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Excalibur II
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fell
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Glidedive Duo
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hazel's Nocturne
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lifecreed Duo
  • 1 Lunar Convocation
  • 1 Lupinflower Village
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moonrise Cleric
  • 1 Moonstone Harbinger
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Mudflat Village
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Regal Bloodlord
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sinister Monolith
  • 1 Skeletal Vampire
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sonar Strike
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Star Charter
  • 1 Starfall Invocation
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Starseer Mentor
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Valley Questcaller
  • 1 Valley Rotcaller
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Zoraline, Cosmos Caller