Angel That Bites - Shilgengar by MochiTushi

Format: Commander

Commander: Shilgengar, Sire of Famine

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This Orzhov deck leverages Shilgengar, Sire of Famine as a dedicated sacrifice outlet and mass-reanimation engine atop an Angel tribal shell. Early turns focus on accelerating mana with low-cost rocks and loading the graveyard through self-mill, cycling, and Buried Alive. Once Shilgengar enters, sacrificing high-toughness Angels creates a surplus of Blood tokens, enabling a multi-creature reanimation wave as early as Turn 5. The reanimated board deploys massive flying threats like Lyra Dawnbringer, Righteous Valkyrie, and Sanctuary Warden, supplemented by life drain from Mirkwood Bats and Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim. Mass-blink spells such as Eerie Interlude and Ghostway double as board protection and a reset mechanism to remove finality counters. If the primary commander plan is disrupted, independent backups like Living Death and natural Angel combat maintain high table pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
  • 1 Angel of Suffering
  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bishop of Wings
  • 1 Bruna, the Fading Light
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Doomed Necromancer
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Faith's Reward
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Firemane Commando
  • 1 Firja's Retribution
  • 1 Firja, Judge of Valor
  • 1 Ghostway
  • 1 Giada, Font of Hope
  • 1 Gisela, the Broken Blade
  • 1 Glass-Cast Heart
  • 1 Inspiring Statuary
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kamber, the Plunderer
  • 1 Legions to Ashes
  • 1 Lich-Knights' Conquest
  • 1 Liesa, Forgotten Archangel
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lumbering Battlement
  • 1 Lyra Dawnbringer
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mogis's Marauder
  • 1 Moment of Reckoning
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Perpetual Timepiece
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Rampage of the Valkyries
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Renegade Reaper
  • 1 Righteous Valkyrie
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rodolf Duskbringer
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sanctuary Warden
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Sephara, Sky's Blade
  • 1 Seraph Sanctuary
  • 1 Serra Paragon
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shilgengar, Sire of Famine
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Solemnity
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Thief of Blood
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unburial Rites
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vito, Fanatic of Aclazotz
  • 1 Voldaren Bloodcaster // Bloodbat Summoner
  • 1 Vraan, Executioner Thane
  • 1 Windbrisk Heights
  • 1 Youthful Valkyrie