Sac & Sling by Thylorekeeper

Format: Commander

Commander: Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Mardu token-aristocrats strategy built around casting Awaken the Blood Avatar, the sorcery side of Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar. The deck deploys efficient, low-cost token generators such as Young Pyromancer, Bitterblossom, and Sedgemoor Witch across turns one through three. On turn four, it sacrifices three disposable tokens to reduce the cost of Awaken the Blood Avatar to just two mana. Upon resolution, each opponent sacrifices a creature while you create a 3/6 Avatar token with haste that deals three damage to every opponent on attack. The deck compounds this damage clock with aristocrat drain engines like Mirkwood Bats, Purphoros, God of the Forge, and Marionette Apprentice. Rule-of-law style turn silencers like Grand Abolisher and Voice of Victory protect your combat and spellcasting windows. Even if opponents remove the commander, alternate go-wide token swarms and the infinite Magecraft loop between Fury Storm and Storm-Kiln Artist provide resilient paths to victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Body Count
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Call the Coppercoats
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Endless Foot Assault
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar
  • 1 Fury Storm
  • 1 Galadriel's Dismissal
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Inspiring Vantage
  • 1 Lagomos, Hand of Hatred
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Martial Coup
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Monastery Mentor
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Muster the Departed
  • 1 Myrel, Shield of Argive
  • 1 Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway
  • 1 Nesting Dovehawk
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Prismari Pianist
  • 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Recruiter of the Guard
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Rite of Oblivion
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Secure the Wastes
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Silverquill, the Disputant
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunbillow Verge
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Windcrag Siege
  • 1 Young Pyromancer