Vampires but not edgar markov by Jakin

Format: Commander

Commander: Elenda, the Dusk Rose

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck executes an Orzhov aristocrats strategy focused on sacrifice loops, death triggers, and token swarms. Elenda, the Dusk Rose serves as both a high-threat counter sponge and an explosive token producer. You build a board of cheap Vampires, sacrifice outlets, and blood artist drain engines, growing Elenda whenever bodies fall. Once she reaches high power, sacrifice her to generate a massive wave of lifelink Vampire tokens while triggering redundant drain effects like Cruel Celebrant, Bastion of Remembrance, and Mirkwood Bats. You secure victory either by draining the entire table through chained sacrifice loops or by overrunning opponents with an anthem-boosted token army.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blade of the Bloodchief
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brave the Sands
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Clavileño, First of the Blessed
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cordial Vampire
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Dusk Legion Sergeant
  • 1 Duty Beyond Death
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda's Hierophant
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Etchings of the Chosen
  • 1 Exalted Sunborn
  • 1 Falkenrath Noble
  • 1 Feast of the Victorious Dead
  • 1 Felisa, Fang of Silverquill
  • 1 Forerunner of the Legion
  • 1 Gift of Immortality
  • 1 Hex
  • 1 Indulgent Aristocrat
  • 1 Intangible Virtue
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Legion Lieutenant
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Master of Dark Rites
  • 1 Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 New Blood
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Olivia's Wrath
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Pact of the Serpent
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patron of the Vein
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 16 Plains
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Redemption Choir
  • 1 Resourceful Defense
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 16 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Tarrian's Soulcleaver
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vona's Hunger
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan