Tributes to the Legion by Baknb

Format: Commander

Commander: Vito, Fanatic of Aclazotz

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This Orzhov aristocrats deck is piloted by Vito, Fanatic of Aclazotz, leveraging sacrifice engines to generate incremental lifegain, steady opponent life drain, and evasive 4/3 flying Vampire Demon tokens. The game plan focuses on establishing sticky, low-cost creature fodder alongside free sacrifice outlets like Bartolomé del Presidio and Yahenni, Undying Partisan. Once Vito resolves on Turn 4, the deck triggers three sacrifices each turn to build a formidable airborne token presence while siphoning opposing life totals through cards like Falkenrath Noble and Bontu's Monument. While the list excels at sustained midgame pressure and board recovery, its reliance on non-haste combat and drain gives opponents three response cycles to answer threats. The deck also includes an infinite drain combo via Exquisite Blood and Marauding Blight-Priest as a compact alternate finish. However, a lack of stack interaction and vulnerability to mass exile effects represent its primary strategic limitations.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abyssal Harvester
  • 1 Agent Venom
  • 1 Amalia Benavides Aguirre
  • 1 Archon of Justice
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Benalish Sleeper
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Bringer of the Last Gift
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Cathar Commando
  • 1 Comet Crawler
  • 1 Costly Plunder
  • 1 Crossway Troublemakers
  • 1 Decode Transmissions
  • 1 Devouring Swarm
  • 1 Diresight
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Elenda, Saint of Dusk
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Falkenrath Noble
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Final Payment
  • 1 Forerunner of the Legion
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Fumulus, the Infestation
  • 1 Greedy Freebooter
  • 1 Hidden Courtyard
  • 1 Hidden Necropolis
  • 1 Hidden Stockpile
  • 1 Hildibrand Manderville // Gentleman's Rise
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Hour of Victory
  • 1 Hunted Witness
  • 1 Hymn of the Faller
  • 1 Infestation Sage
  • 1 Insomnia, Crown City
  • 1 Lord Skitter's Blessing
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Martyr of Dusk
  • 1 Merchant of Venom
  • 1 Misty Palms Oasis
  • 1 Muster the Departed
  • 1 Nantuko Husk
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Obsessive Pursuit
  • 1 Orzhov Guildgate
  • 1 Phantom Train
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Promising Vein
  • 1 Queen's Commission
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Repel Calamity
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Scrounge for Eternity
  • 1 Shadow Summoning
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Skrelv's Hive
  • 1 Smothering Abomination
  • 1 Soulstone Sanctuary
  • 1 Squire's Devotion
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Valkyrie's Call
  • 1 Vanguard of the Rose
  • 1 Veinwitch Coven
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vito, Fanatic of Aclazotz
  • 1 White Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Wriggling Grub
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan