Shilgengar death to bunnies by Rary

Format: Commander

Commander: Shilgengar, Sire of Famine

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov Aristocrats strategy built around Shilgengar, Sire of Famine and a dense package of 15 copies of Hare Apparent. Early turns focus on deploying mana rocks, sacrifice outlets, and cheap Rabbit Nobles to flood the board with tokens while drawing cards through engines like Skullclamp and Grim Haruspex. Shilgengar serves as both a free sacrifice outlet and a mass-reanimation payoff in the command zone, converting sacrificed creatures into Blood tokens and returning all creatures from the graveyard for three mana and six Blood. When multiple Hare Apparents return simultaneously, their abilities trigger quadratically, producing dozens of Rabbit tokens. Paired with aristocrat drain pieces such as Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Marionette Apprentice, and Mirkwood Bats, sacrificing this army drains every opponent from full life in a single turn. Asymmetric board control from Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos clears opposing creatures while your engine safely develops.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 15 Hare Apparent
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Lich-Knights' Conquest
  • 1 Liesa, Forgotten Archangel
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marble Diamond
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shilgengar, Sire of Famine
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snowfield Sinkhole
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat