NuKor by Muskyknuts

Format: Commander

Commander: Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

An Orzhov token/aristocrats build centered on Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim. The commander's ETB life gain and death drain turn every token spell into a two-way life engine. The deck's primary plan is to assemble an infinite life-loss loop using Exquisite Blood (or Bloodthirsty Conqueror) plus any "whenever you gain life, opponents lose life" permanent, seeded by a single creature entering with the commander or Soul Warden. Secondary plans generate a wide token swarm backed by Corpse Knight, Ocelot Pride, and lifegain payoffs. There is no hidden commander and the DFCs in the list are land/utility rather than second faces the deck is built around.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandoned Air Temple
  • 1 Airbender Ascension
  • 1 Ajani's Welcome
  • 1 Athreos, God of Passage
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Baron Bertram Graywater
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Callous Bloodmage
  • 1 Castle Ardenvale
  • 1 Cat Collector
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Cosmogrand Zenith
  • 1 Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Enduring Innocence
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Exalted Sunborn
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 God-Eternal Oketra
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Golden Sidekick
  • 1 Guide of Souls
  • 1 Haliya, Guided by Light
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Inspiring Overseer
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Joo Dee, One of Many
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lunar Convocation
  • 1 Lunarch Veteran // Luminous Phantom
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Ocelot Pride
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Ossification
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Realm of Koh
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Restless Bloodseeker // Bloodsoaked Reveler
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheltered by Ghosts
  • 1 Skrelv's Hive
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Speaker of the Heavens
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Teysa, Opulent Oligarch
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Voice of the Blessed
  • 1 Waystone's Guidance
  • 1 Zoraline, Cosmos Caller