El Barto by Rodrigorilla

Format: Commander

Commander: Bartolomé del Presidio

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This Orzhov deck is a dedicated graveyard combo and aristocrats engine commanded by Bartolomé del Presidio. The primary strategy uses Bartolomé as a free, instant-speed sacrifice outlet in the command zone to execute infinite loops. By pairing recursion creatures such as Brotherhood Outcast, Sun Titan, or Boonweaver Giant with self-reanimating auras like Kaya's Ghostform, Necrogen Communion, and Minion's Return, the deck creates infinite enters-the-battlefield and death triggers. Aristocrat payoffs like Cruel Celebrant, Zulaport Cutthroat, Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim, and Bastion of Remembrance convert these loops into immediate, table-wide lethal drain. Early turns focus on accelerating mana and filling the graveyard through self-mill engines such as Stitcher's Supplier, Undead Butler, and Perpetual Timepiece. Reanimation spells like Dread Return and Sevinne's Reclamation ensure high resilience and fast recovery against disruption, making the deck a compact and redundant combo threat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Angel of Indemnity
  • 1 Angelic Renewal
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Another Chance
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Body Snatcher
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boonweaver Giant
  • 1 Brotherhood Outcast
  • 1 Changing Loyalty
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit Pylons
  • 1 Corpse Augur
  • 1 Corpse Churn
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Danitha, Benalia's Hope
  • 1 Diresight
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fiend Hunter
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Funeral Rites
  • 1 Fungal Fortitude
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Gift of Immortality
  • 1 Gnawing Vermin
  • 1 Gorging Vulture
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Great Hall of the Citadel
  • 1 Hidden Grotto
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Legions to Ashes
  • 1 Leonin Relic-Warder
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Mariposa Military Base
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Minion's Return
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Necrogen Communion
  • 1 Ninja Teen
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Paramecia Coloniex
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Perpetual Timepiece
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Requisition Raid
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scavenger's Talent
  • 1 Seal from Existence
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shepherd of the Cosmos
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Summon Undead
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Surveillance Room
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 The Warring Triad
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Unburial Rites
  • 1 Undead Butler
  • 1 Unseal the Necropolis
  • 1 Valgavoth's Faithful
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wake the Dead
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Werefox Bodyguard
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat