Life and Death by user9941159

Format: Commander

Commander: Elenda, the Dusk Rose

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Elenda, the Dusk Rose is the center of an Orzhov aristocrats deck that turns every creature death into life loss, life gain, and +1/+1 counters. The primary plan is to flood the board with Vampire tokens, sacrifice them through Viscera Seer or Ashnod's Altar, and drain with Blood Artist, Elas il-Kor, and Bastion of Remembrance while Elenda grows. Secondary paths are Vampire tribal beats with Clavileno and Teysa, plus an Exquisite Blood/Sanguine Bond lifegain-drain kill. There is no double-faced commander; Teysa Karlov is the functional hidden engine. The deck rebuilds from its own graveyard and finishes with a huge Elenda explosion, sacrificing the resulting lifelink Vampire tokens to kill the table.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blade of the Bloodchief
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Tribute
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Captivating Vampire
  • 1 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Champion of Dusk
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 Clavileño, First of the Blessed
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cordial Vampire
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda's Hierophant
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feast of the Victorious Dead
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Forerunner of the Legion
  • 1 Gift of Immortality
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Legion Lieutenant
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 March of the Canonized
  • 1 Master of Dark Rites
  • 1 Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Olivia's Wrath
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Preacher of the Schism
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sanctum Seeker
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
  • 18 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Tarrian's Soulcleaver
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Twilight Prophet
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Voldaren Estate
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat