Athreos, God of Passage by TheAceWheelie

Format: Commander

Commander: Athreos, God of Passage

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Athreos, God of Passage leads an Orzhov aristocrats-reanimator deck that wins through infinite sacrifice loops and drain triggers. There is no hidden commander; Athreos is a repeatable value engine that either returns creatures to hand or costs opponents life, but he is not required for any combo line. The primary plan is to assemble a recursive creature plus a sacrifice outlet and an altar that produces colored mana, then close with Blood Artist or a similar drain effect. Secondary paths use Karmic Guide/Reveillark loops, Mikaeus/Triskelion, and large reanimation effects like Rise of the Dark Realms. The deck is tutor-heavy and recursion-heavy, using the graveyard as a second hand.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Athreos, God of Passage
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Gutterbones
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reveillark
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sidisi, Undead Vizier
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 16 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Triskelion
  • 1 Unburial Rites
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat