Sidar Jabari Turn-them-sideways knight! B3 by Farside

Format: Commander

Commander: Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Esper Knight tribal and reanimation strategy led by Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir. The game plan utilizes cheap, aggressive Knights in the opening turns to activate Sidar Jabari's eminence ability from the command zone, repeatedly looting cards to sculpt the hand and deposit massive Knight payoffs directly into the graveyard. Once deployed on Turn 4, Sidar Jabari converts combat connections into free reanimation, cheating high-impact creatures such as Moonshaker Cavalry, Herald of Hoofbeats, and Cavalier of Night onto the battlefield. The deck backs up this combat clock with a dense package of board-protection spells like Teferi's Protection and Guardian of Faith, alongside targeted interaction and secondary recursion engines such as Haakon, Stromgald Scourge. It reliably establishes a must-answer board state on Turn 5 and closes the game through overwhelming combat damage across two response cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acclaimed Contender
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ayara's Oathsworn
  • 1 Blacklance Paragon
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cauldron Haze
  • 1 Cavalier of Dawn
  • 1 Cavalier of Night
  • 1 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Chivalric Alliance
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Mantle
  • 1 Dauntless Bodyguard
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exsanguinator Cavalry
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forsworn Paladin
  • 1 Foulmire Knight // Profane Insight
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Guardian of Faith
  • 1 Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Haytham Kenway
  • 1 Herald of Hoofbeats
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kinsbaile Cavalier
  • 1 Knight Exemplar
  • 1 Knight of Dusk's Shadow
  • 1 Knight of the Ebon Legion
  • 1 Knight of the White Orchid
  • 1 Knights' Charge
  • 1 Kwende, Pride of Femeref
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Locthwain Lancer
  • 1 Mana Leak
  • 1 Mana Tithe
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 1 Moonshaker Cavalry
  • 1 Nameless Inversion
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Rebuff the Wicked
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Silverblade Paladin
  • 1 Skyhunter Strike Force
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Squall, SeeD Mercenary
  • 1 Student of Warfare
  • 1 Summon: Primal Odin
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 The Circle of Loyalty
  • 1 Triumphant Adventurer
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Universal Automaton
  • 1 Unsettled Mariner
  • 1 Valkyrie's Call
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Vodalian Wave-Knight
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Westfold Rider
  • 1 White Orchid Phantom
  • 1 Wonder