Elenda 🌹🤍🖤🌹 (copy) by VandalismusGandalf

Format: Commander

Commander: Elenda, the Dusk Rose

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 54

Deck overview

This deck is a focused Orzhov Aristocrats build led by Elenda, the Dusk Rose. Its primary strategy revolves around producing small creature tokens, growing Elenda through incidental creature deaths, and converting board states into lethal life drain through sacrifice outlets and blood artist effects. The list features dense functional redundancy across sacrifice outlets like Phyrexian Altar and Warren Soultrader, recurring token generators such as Bitterblossom and Ophiomancer, and drain payoffs including Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Bastion of Remembrance. Support pieces like Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos create an oppressive asymmetric creature lock, stripping opposing boards whenever the pilot sacrifices a token. Card advantage engines such as Skullclamp, Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, and Bolas's Citadel ensure continuous replenishment, while protection spells like Flawless Maneuver defend key permanents. The deck reliably assembles its engine by Turn 4, presents a must-answer board state on Turn 5, and eliminates all three opponents on Turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Anointed Procession
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
• 1 Bitterblossom
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Blade of the Bloodchief
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
• 1 Bolas's Citadel
• 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
• 1 Cabal Coffers
• 1 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
• 1 Carrion Feeder
• 1 Cathars' Crusade
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Charismatic Conqueror
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cruel Celebrant
• 1 Culling the Weak
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Dictate of Erebos
• 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
• 1 Elenda's Hierophant
• 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
• 1 Esper Sentinel
• 1 Exquisite Blood
• 1 Feast of the Victorious Dead
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Grave Pact
• 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
• 1 High Market
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
• 1 Kaya's Ghostform
• 1 Land Tax
• 1 Lazotep Quarry
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Luminous Broodmoth
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Marionette Apprentice
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
• 1 Necropotence
• 1 Nim Deathmantle
• 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1 Ophiomancer
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Phyrexian Altar
• 1 Phyrexian Arena
• 1 Phyrexian Tower
• 1 Pitiless Plunderer
• 3 Plains
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Prismatic Vista
• 1 Putrid Goblin
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Scrubland
• 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1 Skrelv's Hive
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 9 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Tainted Field
• 1 Tarrian's Soulcleaver
• 1 Teysa Karlov
• 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
• 1 The Meathook Massacre
• 1 Tombstone Stairwell
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Urza's Saga
• 1 Vault of Champions
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Warren Soultrader
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat