New Untitled Deck by ALanger17

Format: Commander

Commander: Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This Orzhov deck leverages lifegain and aristocrats drain engines under the command of Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel. Early turns focus on deploying cheap lifegain enablers like Hinterland Sanctifier alongside death-trigger drainers such as Blood Artist and Cruel Celebrant. By midgame, the deck establishes powerful card draw engines through Trouble in Pairs and the commander, whose ability turns every point of gained life into card advantage. The deck pressures all three opponents simultaneously through continuous incidental drain and token swarms. Game-ending lines include the infinite life-drain loop of Exquisite Blood with Sanguine Bond or Enduring Tenacity, as well as massive mana sinks like Exsanguinate and mass reanimation with Rise of the Dark Realms. While the deck has minimal instant-speed stack protection, its deep graveyard recursion and dense functional redundancy ensure resilient mid-to-late-game performance.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Amalia Benavides Aguirre
  • 1 Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Baron Bertram Graywater
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bringer of the Last Gift
  • 1 Case of the Uneaten Feast
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Elenda's Hierophant
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Essence Channeler
  • 1 Exorcise
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Glass-Cast Heart
  • 1 Haliya, Guided by Light
  • 1 Hinterland Sanctifier
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Keeper of the Accord
  • 1 Leonardo, Cutting Edge
  • 1 Lifecreed Duo
  • 1 Liliana the Faultless
  • 1 Living End
  • 1 March of the Canonized
  • 1 Massacre Girl, Most Wanted
  • 1 Meathook Massacre II
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel
  • 1 Nyx Lotus
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Ascended
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 18 Plains
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Raise the Past
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sangromancer
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Starving Revenant
  • 1 Sunscorch Regent
  • 19 Swamp
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Utter End
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 White Lotus Tile
  • 1 Wispdrinker Vampire
  • 1 Withering Torment