E by user3211500

Format: Commander

Commander: Elves of Deep Shadow

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a budget Golgari ramp-into-midrange deck helmed by Elves of Deep Shadow, a one-mana dork that simply fixes black mana from the command zone. The plan is straightforward: ramp hard with a dense suite of three-mana land searchers and mana rocks, then deploy oversized threats, cascade bombs, and devotion payoffs. Primary wins come from combat with Ulamog's Crusher, Annoyed Altisaur, Maelstrom Colossus, and Crash of Rhino Beetles, backed by Gray Merchant of Asphodel drains and table-wide burn from Crypt Rats or Pestilence. Secondary value engines include the monarch (Thorn of the Black Rose, Entourage of Trest, Staunch Throneguard) and the initiative. There are no infinite combos; the deck is a classic big-mana beatdown pile that leans on raw size and attrition rather than synergy or stack control.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alacrian Jaguar
  • 1 Annoyed Altisaur
  • 1 Avenging Hunter
  • 1 Basilica Screecher
  • 1 Beacon Behemoth
  • 1 Beneath the Sands
  • 1 Blood Fountain
  • 1 Bonder's Ornament
  • 1 Boulderbranch Golem
  • 1 Bramble Wurm
  • 1 Caligo Skin-Witch
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Contract Killing
  • 1 Crash of Rhino Beetles
  • 1 Crypt Rats
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dead Ringers
  • 1 Disturbed Burial
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Entourage of Trest
  • 1 Evincar's Justice
  • 1 Excavating Anurid
  • 1 Eyeblight Massacre
  • 1 Farhaven Elf
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Find the Path
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 20 Forest
  • 1 Generous Ent
  • 1 Golgari Cluestone
  • 1 Golgari Locket
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Greater Tanuki
  • 1 Grow from the Ashes
  • 1 Growth Spasm
  • 1 Infernal Idol
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Loathsome Curator
  • 1 Maelstrom Colossus
  • 1 Malboro
  • 1 Natural Reclamation
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nissa's Pilgrimage
  • 1 Nylea's Forerunner
  • 1 Nyxborn Hydra
  • 1 Orazca Relic
  • 1 Oubliette
  • 1 Overgrowth
  • 1 Owlbear
  • 1 Path to the Festival
  • 1 Pestilence
  • 1 Phyrexian Gargantua
  • 1 Primal Growth
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Rot-Tide Gargantua
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Staunch Throneguard
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Tasigur's Cruelty
  • 1 They Went This Way
  • 1 Thorn of the Black Rose
  • 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
  • 1 Ulamog's Crusher
  • 1 Underdark Explorer
  • 1 Unnerve
  • 1 Vicious Battlerager
  • 1 Walk with the Ancestors