Grimdark by user4976425

Format: Commander

Commander: Ketramose, the New Dawn

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Orzhov midrange deck uses Ketramose, the New Dawn as a card-advantage engine while winning through Equipment and reanimation. You exile cards from graveyards and the battlefield on your turn to trigger Ketramose, draw cards, and eventually enable his 4/4 menace lifelink body once seven cards sit in exile. The real damage comes from cheating large Equipment like Kaldra Compleat and Batterskull and Vehicles like Parhelion II into play with Stoneforge Mystic, Forge Anew, Danitha, Benalia's Hope and Greasefang, Okiba Boss. Recursion from Carmen, Hero of the Dunes and Lazotep Quarry grinds through removal, while exile removal like Aerial Extortionist and Detention Chariot fuels Ketramose and controls the board.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Rector
  • 1 Aerial Extortionist
  • 1 Archenemy's Charm
  • 1 Arena Rector
  • 1 Batterskull
  • 1 Blacksmith's Skill
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Bleeding Effect
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Danitha, Benalia's Hope
  • 1 Deadeye Tracker
  • 1 Deadly Cover-Up
  • 1 Deserted Temple
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Detention Chariot
  • 1 Eagles of the North
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Exorcise
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flagstones of Trokair
  • 1 Forge Anew
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Graveshifter
  • 1 Greasefang, Okiba Boss
  • 1 Hero of the Dunes
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kaldra Compleat
  • 1 Kaya, Ghost Assassin
  • 1 Ketramose, the New Dawn
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lazotep Quarry
  • 1 Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice
  • 1 Loran's Escape
  • 1 Lotus Field
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Merrow Bonegnawer
  • 1 Murdock's Crusade
  • 1 Nahiri, the Lithomancer
  • 1 Odric, Lunarch Marshal
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
  • 1 Parhelion II
  • 1 Patron of the Vein
  • 1 Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Preeminent Captain
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Revoke Existence
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rodolf Duskbringer
  • 1 Rooftop Percher
  • 1 Salvation Swan
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Senu, Keen-Eyed Protector
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smuggler's Copter
  • 1 Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Soul Transfer
  • 1 Stoneforge Mystic
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 The Eternal Wanderer
  • 1 The Wandering Rescuer
  • 1 Throne of the Grim Captain // The Grim Captain
  • 1 Trapjaw Tyrant
  • 1 Umbral Expanse
  • 1 Unlicensed Hearse
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow