Extus Experiment by NevanVermillion

Format: Commander

Commander: Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This deck is a Mardu Aristocrats and Spellslinger hybrid that leverages the dual nature of Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar. The primary strategy involves generating a wide board of tokens through creatures like Young Pyromancer, Monastery Mentor, and Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon, then sacrificing them to cast the back face, Awaken the Blood Avatar, repeatedly. This creates high-pressure 3/6 Haste Avatars that drain opponents upon attacking. The front face, Extus, provides a powerful recursion engine, using Magecraft to return key utility creatures or combo pieces like Dualcaster Mage from the graveyard to the hand whenever an instant or sorcery is cast. The deck wins through a combination of Avatar combat damage, aristocrat drain effects (Blood Artist variants), or the infinite Dualcaster Mage + Twinflame/Heat Shimmer combo. It is a highly synergistic engine deck that converts spells into bodies and bodies into game-ending threats.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Anim Pakal, Thousandth Moon
• 1 Ardent Elementalist
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Battlefield Forge
• 1 Blood for Bones
• 1 Bloodghast
• 1 Bloodsoaked Champion
• 1 Body Count
• 1 Boros Garrison
• 1 Boros Signet
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Burnt Offering
• 1 Canyon Slough
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Corpse Knight
• 1 Corrupted Conviction
• 1 Cruel Celebrant
• 1 Culling the Weak
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Despark
• 1 Dread Return
• 1 Dualcaster Mage
• 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
• 1 Electroduplicate
• 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
• 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Extus, Oriq Overlord // Awaken the Blood Avatar
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Fracture
• 1 Furycalm Snarl
• 1 Gravecrawler
• 1 Heat Shimmer
• 1 Impact Tremors
• 1 Imperial Recruiter
• 1 Infernal Plunge
• 1 Karmic Guide
• 1 Kolaghan's Command
• 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
• 1 Mayhem Devil
• 1 Molten Duplication
• 1 Monastery Mentor
• 3 Mountain
• 1 Nomad Outpost
• 1 Orzhov Basilica
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Pawn of Ulamog
• 1 Persist
• 1 Pitiless Plunderer
• 3 Plains
• 1 Plumb the Forbidden
• 1 Rakdos Carnarium
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Rally the Ancestors
• 1 Reassembling Skeleton
• 1 Recruiter of the Guard
• 1 Reveillark
• 1 Reverberate
• 1 Secure the Wastes
• 1 Sedgemoor Witch
• 1 Seize the Spotlight
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Song of Totentanz
• 1 Spymaster's Vault
• 1 Sram's Expertise
• 1 Sun Titan
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Tainted Field
• 1 Talisman of Conviction
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Temple of Triumph
• 1 Twinflame
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Warren Soultrader
• 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
• 1 Witch's Cottage
• 1 Woe Strider
• 1 Young Pyromancer
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat