Silverquill by Shock05

Format: Commander

Commander: Silverquill, the Disputant

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 25

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov Spellslinger Control deck led by Silverquill, the Disputant. The strategy focuses on establishing early creature fodder and deploying the commander on turn 4. Once assembled, Silverquill grants casualty 1 to all instant and sorcery spells, enabling powerful two-for-one removal and card advantage plays whenever you sacrifice a creature with power 1 or greater. The deck controls the board using a dense package of cheap removal spells like Fatal Push, Shoot the Sheriff, and Swords to Plowshares, which clear opposing threats while triggering death payoffs. Creatures such as Thanos, Death's Consort, Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast, and Judge Magister Gabranth grow substantially as opposing creatures die. In the late game, the deck transitions from reactive control to proactive beatdown, finishing opponents with large commander swings, token armies from Sedgemoor Witch and The Final Days, or direct life loss from Season of Loss.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ajani's Response
  • 1 Alesha's Legacy
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Bilbo's Deadly Slice
  • 1 Blitzball
  • 1 Cast Away Doubt
  • 1 Chain Assassination
  • 1 Cheerful Osteomancer // Raise Dead
  • 1 Consumed by Greed
  • 1 Cornered by Black Mages
  • 1 Daydream
  • 1 Diresight
  • 1 Dual-Sun Technique
  • 1 Duty Beyond Death
  • 1 Dwarven Castle Guard
  • 1 Eliminate
  • 1 Elite Interceptor // Rejoinder
  • 1 Emeritus of Truce // Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Essence Infusion
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Fix What's Broken
  • 1 Forlorn Flats
  • 1 Forum of Amity
  • 1 Front Porch Sentries
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Grounded for Life
  • 1 Honorbound Page // Forum's Favor
  • 1 Inkshape Demonstrator
  • 1 Insomnia, Crown City
  • 1 Interjection
  • 1 Joined Researchers // Secret Rendezvous
  • 1 Joust Through
  • 1 Judge Magister Gabranth
  • 1 Killian, Ink Duelist
  • 1 Lay Down Arms
  • 1 Lifecreed Duo
  • 1 Mage Hunters' Onslaught
  • 1 Make Your Move
  • 1 Mutual Destruction
  • 1 Nezumi Linkbreaker
  • 1 Nita, Forum Conciliator
  • 1 Nocturnal Hunger
  • 16 Plains
  • 1 Political Triumph
  • 1 Predictive Preparations
  • 1 Primary Research
  • 1 Ravine Raider
  • 1 Repel Calamity
  • 1 Reroute Systems
  • 1 Scavenger's Talent
  • 1 Season of Loss
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Shaile, Dean of Radiance // Embrose, Dean of Shadow
  • 1 Shattered Acolyte
  • 1 Shoot the Sheriff
  • 1 Silverquill, the Disputant
  • 1 Stand Up for Yourself
  • 1 Starlit Soothsayer
  • 1 Stirring Hopesinger
  • 19 Swamp
  • 1 Thanos, Death's Consort
  • 1 The Final Days
  • 1 The Last Ronin's Technique
  • 1 The Masamune
  • 1 Undercity Dire Rat
  • 1 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast
  • 1 Vow to Erebor