Shilgengar - Angel sacrifice by user8427211

Format: Commander

Commander: Shilgengar, Sire of Famine

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Orzhov Angel tribal deck is helmed by Shilgengar, Sire of Famine, a 6/6 flying demon that turns creature sacrifice into a multi-step reanimation engine. The primary game plan is to fill the graveyard with high-impact Angels, then use the commander's activated ability - sacrificing six Blood tokens - to return every creature card from the graveyard to the battlefield at once. The Angels provide diverse ETB effects (permanent removal, graveyard exile, mass bounce, recursion) and form a resilient flying army. The deck also runs a robust suite of targeted reanimation spells (Reanimate, Animate Dead, Living Death) and recursion engines (Emeria Shepherd, Karmic Guide) to maintain pressure. Combat damage from a swarm of Angels is the main win condition, with Angel of Destiny offering an alternate life-gain-based finish. The deck is a mid-range value engine that excels at grinding out advantage through repeated reanimation.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Angel of Despair
  • 1 Angel of Destiny
  • 1 Angel of Finality
  • 1 Angel of Indemnity
  • 1 Angel of Sanctions
  • 1 Angel of Serenity
  • 1 Angel of Vitality
  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deathless Angel
  • 1 Doomskar
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Emeria Shepherd
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Firja, Judge of Valor
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Giada, Font of Hope
  • 1 Inspiring Overseer
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Late to Dinner
  • 1 Liesa, Forgotten Archangel
  • 1 Liesa, Shroud of Dusk
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Make a Stand
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Oriq Loremage
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Pointed Discussion
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Resplendent Angel
  • 1 Righteous Valkyrie
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Secluded Steppe
  • 1 Serra's Guardian
  • 1 Shilgengar, Sire of Famine
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Silverquill Campus
  • 1 Snowfield Sinkhole
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starnheim Aspirant
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Unburial Rites
  • 1 Utter End
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Your Temple Is Under Attack
  • 1 Youthful Valkyrie