I dieci anziani by stepqz

Format: Commander

Commander: Breena, the Demagogue

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov lifegain midrange strategy led by Breena, the Demagogue. It accelerates early board development using cheap evasive creatures and lifegain enablers such as Soul Warden and Guide of Souls. Deploying Breena on curve weaponizes combat, drawing extra cards and rapidly growing threats with +1/+1 counters whenever players attack the opponents with the highest life totals. The deck leverages pillowfort and tax pieces like Ghostly Prison and Blind Obedience to protect its life total and disrupt opposing combat tempo. As the game develops, redundant drain engines such as Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Enduring Tenacity, and Sanguine Bond convert repeated lifegain triggers into direct life loss. Board presence culminates in massive flying attackers, token swarms from Adeline, Resplendent Cathar, or an Aetherflux Reservoir burst to finish opponents around Turn 8. Efficient spot removal and flexible sweepers maintain board parity while graveyard recursion preserves mid-game momentum.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Ainok Strike Leader
  • 1 Ajani Resolute
  • 1 Ajani, Strength of the Pride
  • 1 Ascend from Avernus
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Dalkovan Packbeasts
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dusk Legion Duelist
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda's Hierophant
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Falcon and Redwing
  • 1 Germinate Recruits
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Guide of Souls
  • 1 Healer's Hawk
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jacked Rabbit
  • 1 Karlov of the Ghost Council
  • 1 Kaya, Geist Hunter
  • 1 Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion
  • 1 Liliana the Faultless
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel
  • 1 Norn's Annex
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 15 Plains
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Radiant Fountain
  • 1 Rewrite Regrets
  • 1 Rise of the Deathbringer
  • 1 Ruin-Lurker Bat
  • 1 Sanctum Lurker
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin Markov
  • 1 Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate
  • 1 Sorin the Mirthless
  • 1 Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Aetherspark
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Vampire Cutthroat
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Way of the Mentor
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow