shadowheart v1 by jpwic

Format: Commander

Commander: Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar and Cloakwood Hermit

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Golgari aristocrats and Squirrel-token engine built around the Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar + Cloakwood Hermit Background pair. Cloakwood Hermit turns every creature death or graveyard placement into two tapped Squirrel tokens at end of turn, while Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar converts those bodies into raw card draw by sacrificing them. The 99 layers classic death-payoff drains (Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Bastion of Remembrance, Mirkwood Bats, Syr Konrad, the Grim), free sacrifice outlets (Ashnod's Altar, Phyrexian Altar, Viscera Seer), and Squirrel force-multipliers (Chatterfang, Squirrel General, Doubling Season, Hazel of the Rootbloom). Primary wins are infinite sacrifice loops that drain the table or generate unbounded mana into Exsanguinate; secondary paths are go-wide combat and recursive value with Meren of Clan Nel Toth and Mikaeus, the Unhallowed. The deck plays as a grindy midrange engine that converts chump bodies into cards, mana, and life-total pressure until a loop closes the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archdruid's Charm
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Cabal Coffers
• 1 Camellia, the Seedmiser
• 1 Cauldron of Essence
• 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
• 1 Chitterspitter
• 1 Chord of Calling
• 1 Cloakwood Hermit
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Deathcap Glade
• 1 Doubling Season
• 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
• 1 Fiend Artisan
• 1 Force of Vigor
• 7 Forest
• 1 Grave Pact
• 1 Hazel of the Rootbloom
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Jund Panorama
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Moldervine Reclamation
• 1 Nature's Claim
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Necropotence
• 1 Noxious Revival
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Phyrexian Altar
• 1 Pitiless Plunderer
• 1 Putrefy
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Scavenger's Talent
• 1 Scurry Oak
• 1 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
• 1 Skull Prophet
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Squirrel Sovereign
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Sylvan Library
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Talisman of Resilience
• 1 Tear Asunder
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 Thornvault Forager
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Tooth and Nail
• 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Underground Mortuary
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Valley Rotcaller
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Veil of Summer
• 1 Vernal Fen
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Wastewood Verge
• 1 Wight of the Reliquary
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
• 1 Ygra, Eater of All
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat