Sivriss Snape by xXdueceXx

Format: Commander

Creator: xXdueceXx

Commander: Cloakwood Hermit and Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This Golgari Aristocrats deck leverages the partnership of Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker and Cloakwood Hermit to form a self-sustaining engine of graveyard fill, card advantage, and token generation. The deck ramps on early turns to deploy both commanders by Turn 4. Sivriss sacrifices disposable fodder to mill three cards every turn, presenting opponents with a punishing choice between card advantage or life loss, while Cloakwood Hermit replaces the sacrificed creature with two Squirrel tokens at the end step. The deck converts this steady resource churn into victory around Turn 6 by resolving premier aristocrat payoffs such as Chatterfang, Squirrel General, Syr Konrad, the Grim, or Mirkwood Bats, rapidly draining the table across two response cycles. It backs its game plan with efficient removal and recursion spells, though it remains vulnerable to graveyard exile and sweeping noncreature combo strategies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Cloakwood Hermit
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
  • 1 Krosan Grip
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Poison-Tip Archer
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sting, the Glinting Dagger
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat