Sharuum the Hegemon by CptBstrd

Format: Commander

Commander: Sharuum the Hegemon

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Artifact Combo-Control deck led by Sharuum the Hegemon. Its primary game plan revolves around accelerating mana through powerful artifact rocks, controlling the board with a dense suite of sweepers, and assembling a decisive infinite mana combination using Basalt Monolith and Rings of Brighthearth. Once infinite mana is online, the deck channels it into Walking Ballista or Staff of Domination to eliminate the entire table on the same turn. If the primary combo is disrupted, Sharuum the Hegemon provides instant engine recovery directly from the command zone, while alternate win conditions such as Sculpting Steel with Bitter Ordeal, Mindslaver locks, and devastating beatdown threats like Blightsteel Colossus ensure strong resilience. The deck excels at resetting creature-heavy boards and grinding out resource advantage through high-impact artifacts.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Academy Ruins
• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 All Is Dust
• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Austere Command
• 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1 Basalt Monolith
• 1 Bitter Ordeal
• 1 Blightsteel Colossus
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consecrated Sphinx
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Damnation
• 1 Darksteel Forge
• 1 Darksteel Ingot
• 1 Day of Judgment
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Duplicant
• 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1 End Hostilities
• 1 Enlightened Tutor
• 1 Ethersworn Adjudicator
• 1 Eye of Ugin
• 1 Fetid Pools
• 1 Final Showdown
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Grim Monolith
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 In Garruk's Wake
• 1 Inventors' Fair
• 1 Irrigated Farmland
• 5 Island
• 1 Karn Liberated
• 1 Karn, Scion of Urza
• 1 Karn, Silver Golem
• 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1 Magister Sphinx
• 1 Mana Vault
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Memnarch
• 1 Meticulous Archive
• 1 Mindslaver
• 1 Mox Opal
• 1 Muzzio, Visionary Architect
• 1 Open the Vaults
• 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
• 4 Plains
• 1 Platinum Angel
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Portal to Phyrexia
• 1 Raffine's Tower
• 1 Rings of Brighthearth
• 1 Rout
• 1 Scourglass
• 1 Sculpting Steel
• 1 Sen Triplets
• 1 Shadowy Backstreet
• 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1 Soulscour
• 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
• 1 Staff of Domination
• 1 Steel Hellkite
• 1 Supreme Verdict
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Tezzeret the Seeker
• 1 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
• 1 Tezzeret, Artifice Master
• 1 Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 Thran Dynamo
• 1 Treasure Mage
• 1 Trinket Mage
• 1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
• 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1 Undercity Sewers
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Walking Ballista
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Wrath of God
• 1 Wurmcoil Engine