Crimson Party by Dendrex

Format: Commander

Commander: Olivia, Crimson Bride

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 23

Deck overview

This deck uses Olivia, Crimson Bride as a hasty reanimation engine. Its main sequence is to place a high-impact creature in the graveyard, cast Olivia, Crimson Bride, and attack immediately to return that creature tapped and attacking. Archon of Cruelty is the best ordinary target because its entrance and attack triggers create two opposing sacrifices and discards while drawing two cards. Other targets, including Balefire Dragon, Terror of the Peaks, and Sheoldred, Whispering One, provide removal, damage, or attrition. Tutors make the plan findable, but the six-mana commander and limited acceleration keep assembly near turn 6. The deck generates strong combat value, yet it lacks a compact, reliable table kill. It also depends heavily on creatures, attacks, and graveyard access, so removal and graveyard hate are effective. Its interaction and protection are useful but sparse compared with competitive builds.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 Accursed Duneyard
• 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
• 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
• 1 Anje Falkenrath
• 1 Anje, Maid of Dishonor
• 1 Anowon, the Ruin Sage
• 1 Archon of Cruelty
• 1 Arid Mesa
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Balefire Dragon
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Blazemire Verge
• 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodchief Ascension
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Bolas's Citadel
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Burning-Rune Demon
• 1 Cabal Coffers
• 1 Captivating Vampire
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
• 1 Drana, the Last Bloodchief
• 1 Dusk Legion Sergeant
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Exsanguinator Cavalry
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Falkenrath Gorger
• 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
• 1 Final Parting
• 1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
• 1 Goblin Bombardment
• 1 Graven Cairns
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Hellkite Tyrant
• 1 Henrika Domnathi // Henrika, Infernal Seer
• 1 High Market
• 1 Ivora, Insatiable Heir
• 1 Jaws, Relentless Predator
• 1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 1 Kamber, the Plunderer
• 1 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Mana Confluence
• 1 Master of Cruelties
• 2 Mountain
• 1 Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
• 1 Olivia Voldaren
• 1 Olivia, Crimson Bride
• 1 Olivia, Mobilized for War
• 1 Patron of the Vein
• 1 Phyrexian Altar
• 1 Phyrexian Tower
• 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Preacher of the Schism
• 1 Rakish Heir
• 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Ripples of Undeath
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Strefan, Maurer Progenitor
• 1 Stromkirk Captain
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1 Terror of the Peaks
• 1 The Haunt of Hightower
• 1 Tibalt's Trickery
• 1 Turbulent Crater
• 1 Unmarked Grave
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Urza's Cave
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1 Voldaren Estate
• 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan