Test by Cubeiq

Format: Commander

Commander: Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim is an aristocrats deck that converts creature deaths into life loss for all opponents. The core loop is token production plus free sacrifice outlets, with redundant drain effects in Zulaport Cutthroat, Cruel Celebrant, and Blood Artist. The fastest kill is Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose plus Bloodthirsty Conqueror: once triggered, each life gain makes an opponent lose life and each life loss gains life, looping until the table dies. Secondary plans grind card advantage with Skullclamp and Dark Prophecy, or loop Reassembling Skeleton with Ashnod's Altar and Pitiless Plunderer for infinite death triggers. The deck is resilient to spot removal but has almost no answer to Rest in Peace or Torpor Orb.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crested Sunmare
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dark Prophecy
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Doomed Traveler
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Nested Shambler
  • 1 Obsessive Pursuit
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Will of the Mardu
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat