Cecil by user8004900

Format: Commander

Commander: Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck leverages high-risk life manipulation in an Orzhov shell to pivot rapidly between aggressive life-loss engines and lethal swings. Cecil, Dark Knight serves as an early defensive body that safely transforms into Cecil, Redeemed Paladin once you reach 20 life or less, providing mass indestructible protection and lifelink on attacks. The deck exploits this low-life threshold using cards like K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth, Necrologia, and Doomsday. You secure victory by assembling life-drain loops such as Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose alongside Bloodthirsty Conqueror, exchanging fragile life totals using Mister Negative or Repay in Kind, or firing off Aetherflux Reservoir.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aerith Gainsborough
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Astarion, the Decadent
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dion, Bahamut's Dominant // Bahamut, Warden of Light
  • 1 Doctor Strange, Surgeon
  • 1 Doomsday
  • 1 Enduring Angel // Angelic Enforcer
  • 1 Exsanguinator Cavalry
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Font of Agonies
  • 1 General's Enforcer
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gonti's Machinations
  • 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jerren, Corrupted Bishop // Ormendahl, the Corrupter
  • 1 Judgment of Alexander
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Kain, Traitorous Dragoon
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Madame Null, Power Broker
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mister Negative
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Necrologia
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Pact Weapon
  • 1 Pain's Reward
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Unlife
  • 1 Plague Drone
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Repay in Kind
  • 1 Reverse the Sands
  • 1 Rosa, Resolute White Mage
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squall, SeeD Mercenary
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Sigil
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 The Endstone
  • 1 The Golden Throne
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unspeakable Symbol
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Vona, Butcher of Magan
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival