Surveil this, by Malaika_LR

Format: Commander

Commander: Denzilore Fatehold

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This deck is an Azorius aggro-control deck built around Denzilore Fatehold. The primary strategy focuses on assembling a fleet of low-cost flying creatures, deploying the commander, and repeatedly triggering scry and surveil to distribute +1/+1 counters across the entire team. High-density scry and surveil cards such as Cryptic Annelid, Eye of Jace, and Nightveil Sprite smooth out draw steps while swelling the board into a formidable aerial strike force. Reactive counterspells and removal spells protect the team and disrupt opposing power plays, while anthems like Empyrean Eagle and finishers like Akroma's Will accelerate the clock. Although vulnerable to mass creature sweepers and lacking fast tutors, the deck maintains steady pressure and robust card selection across all stages of the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bilbo Baggins, Burglar // Take a Glance
  • 1 Chain to Memory
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Condemn
  • 1 Contact Other Plane
  • 1 Contentious Plan
  • 1 Convolute
  • 1 Cryptic Annelid
  • 1 Deny the Divine
  • 1 Denzilore Fatehold
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Desperate Futurescribe
  • 1 Disdainful Stroke
  • 1 Disrupt
  • 1 Dissolve
  • 1 Duty Beyond Death
  • 1 Empyrean Eagle
  • 1 Ertai's Scorn
  • 1 Essence Anchor
  • 1 Ethereal Valkyrie
  • 1 Eye of Jace
  • 1 Eyes Everywhere
  • 1 Fatehold Chronologist // Peer Review
  • 1 Gates of Istfell
  • 1 Geist of the Archives
  • 1 Giant's Boulder
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glacial Floodplain
  • 1 Grateful Apparition
  • 1 Guiding Hydra
  • 1 Infinite Coursework
  • 15 Island
  • 1 Jace, Reality Sculptor
  • 1 Keeper of the Quiet Hour
  • 1 Koth of the Homestead
  • 1 Lightshell Duo
  • 1 Memory Trap
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindseeker Oculus
  • 1 Mindwhisker
  • 1 Nightveil Sprite
  • 1 Open into Wonder
  • 14 Plains
  • 1 Proctor of Potential
  • 1 Proft, Consulting Detective
  • 1 Protege's Awakening
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Ruric Thar, Biomagus
  • 1 Sejiri Refuge
  • 1 Semester Foreseer // Peer Review
  • 1 Shatterwing Pegasus
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Skycoach Waypoint
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectral Deluge
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Surgical Precision
  • 1 Surveillance Phantasm
  • 1 Tester of the Tangential
  • 1 The Lord of the Eagles
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Thunderclap Wyvern
  • 1 Together Forever
  • 1 Tranquil Cove
  • 1 Unbounded Potential
  • 1 Way of the Healer
  • 1 Yoshimaru, Beloved Companion
  • 1 Yuriko, Blade of the Mighty
  • 1 Yuriko, Hope from the Shadows