Surveil Control by Zlyfer

Format: Commander

Commander: Denzilore Fatehold

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is an Azorius midrange strategy led by Denzilore Fatehold. It focuses on turning scry and surveil actions into permanent board power. Early turns establish cheap, evasive creatures with attack or enter triggers that look through the library. Casting Denzilore with flash enables immediate team-wide growth whenever you scry or surveil, transforming small flyers into formidable threats. The deck supports this aggressive core with consistent card draw engines like Matoya, Archon Elder and The Theorist, Jace Beleren, as well as pillowfort and tax pieces like Grand Arbiter Augustin IV and Ghostly Prison to slow opposing aggression. A one-sided board wipe in Damning Verdict provides a clean path to close games through unblocked aerial damage across Turns 6 to 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Augury Owl
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Chain to Memory
  • 1 Chandra, Chill of Compliance
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Countersculpt
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Damning Verdict
  • 1 Deliberate
  • 1 Denzilore Fatehold
  • 1 Desperate Futurescribe
  • 1 Diviner of Victory // Unwind History
  • 1 Don't Make a Sound
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dreams of Laguna
  • 1 Dusk Legion Duelist
  • 1 Eligeth, Crossroads Augur
  • 1 Elrond, Lord of Rivendell
  • 1 Emeria, the Sky Ruin
  • 1 Enlightened Confidant
  • 1 Eye of Jace
  • 1 Fatehold Annex
  • 1 Fatehold Charm
  • 1 Fear of Surveillance
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Hithlain Knots
  • 1 Hopeful Initiate
  • 1 Il Mheg Pixie
  • 1 Infinite Coursework
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Jace's Machinations
  • 1 Jace, Mirror Mage
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Loyal Tutor
  • 1 Matoya, Archon Elder
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Nightveil Sprite
  • 1 Octoprophet
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Political Triumph
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Precise Redaction
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Proctor of Potential
  • 1 Proft, Consulting Detective
  • 1 Prognostic Sphinx
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Prudent Fateseer // Peer Review
  • 1 Refute Destiny
  • 1 Rumor Gatherer
  • 1 Saheeli, Consul of Oversight
  • 1 Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
  • 1 Serum Sovereign
  • 1 Sigiled Starfish
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of Foresight
  • 1 Surveillance Phantasm
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Thalia, the Survivor
  • 1 Thassa, God of the Sea
  • 1 The Grey Havens
  • 1 The Theorist, Jace Beleren
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Unsummon
  • 1 Watcher of Hours
  • 1 Way of the Healer
  • 1 Yoshimaru, Beloved Companion
  • 1 Yuriko, Hope from the Shadows