Shilgengar, Sire of Famine by Production

Format: Commander

Commander: Shilgengar, Sire of Famine

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov aristocrats swarm strategy helmed by Shilgengar, Sire of Famine, built around 15 copies of Hare Apparent. The game plan revolves around casting early Hare Apparents to generate an exponential board of 1/1 Rabbit tokens, which are leveraged through sacrifice outlets like Warren Soultrader, Phyrexian Altar, and Shilgengar itself to generate Blood tokens, mana, and card draw. Secret Salvage serves as a massive tutor burst by exiling a single Hare Apparent from the graveyard to put every remaining copy into hand. The deck transitions into a lethal win on Turn 6 by utilizing mass reanimation spells like Raise the Past or Shilgengar's activated ability to return multiple Hares simultaneously. Each entering Hare sees every other Hare, spawning dozens of tokens that are instantly sacrificed to drain the entire table to zero life in a single turn via Cruel Celebrant, Marionette Apprentice, and Mirkwood Bats.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ascend from Avernus
  • 1 Athreos, God of Passage
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Body Count
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Divine Visitation
  • 1 Drana and Linvala
  • 1 Duty Beyond Death
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 15 Hare Apparent
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kingpin, Wilson Fisk
  • 1 Lich-Knights' Conquest
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lupinflower Village
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mentor of the Meek
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Raise the Past
  • 1 Requisition Raid
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rumor Gatherer
  • 1 Ruthless Lawbringer
  • 1 Secret Salvage
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shilgengar, Sire of Famine
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemnity
  • 1 Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Vito, Fanatic of Aclazotz
  • 1 Voldaren Bloodcaster // Bloodbat Summoner
  • 1 Wander Off
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat