Sentry by bear5134

Format: Commander

Commander: The Sentry, Golden Guardian

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This mono-white deck harnesses The Sentry, Golden Guardian as an aggressive, indestructible Voltron commander supported by an extensive equipment arsenal and damage-redirection package. The game plan focuses on deploying early equip-cost cheaters like Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist and Forge Anew, casting The Sentry on Turn 4, and attaching game-ending weapons like Colossus Hammer, Excalibur, Sword of Eden, or Commander's Plate for a Turn 5 onset. Combat pressure is supplemented by unique defensive redirection engines using Pariah effects to divert all incoming damage to indestructible creatures, rendering combat damage against the pilot futile. An instant-win backup combo with Guilty Conscience and Phyrexian Vindicator provides non-combat lethality. While susceptible to mass artifact removal and instant-speed exile, the deck exerts formidable combat clocks and resilient board control.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Angelic Armaments
  • 1 Angelic Destiny
  • 1 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer
  • 1 Arc Reactor
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist
  • 1 Avenge
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Battlefield Improvisation
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Bloodforged Battle-Axe
  • 1 Brotherhood Regalia
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Buster Sword
  • 1 Colossus Hammer
  • 1 Commander's Plate
  • 1 Conqueror's Flail
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Entangler
  • 1 Excalibur, Sword of Eden
  • 1 Forge Anew
  • 1 Genji Glove
  • 1 Gideon's Sacrifice
  • 1 Guilty Conscience
  • 1 Halvar, God of Battle // Sword of the Realms
  • 1 Hammer of Nazahn
  • 1 Harvest Hand // Scrounged Scythe
  • 1 Hero's Heirloom
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Judgment of Alexander
  • 1 Kíli the Resourceful
  • 1 Leonin Shikari
  • 1 Leyline Axe
  • 1 Machinist's Arsenal
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Nettlecyst
  • 1 Open the Armory
  • 1 Pariah
  • 1 Pariah's Shield
  • 1 Patriar's Seal
  • 1 Phyrexian Vindicator
  • 34 Plains
  • 1 Righteous Fury
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Single Combat
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectrum Sentinel
  • 1 Spelltithe Enforcer
  • 1 Steelshaper's Gift
  • 1 Stoneforge Mystic
  • 1 Super-Soldier Serum
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
  • 1 Sword of Forge and Frontier
  • 1 Sword of Hearth and Home
  • 1 Sword of Light and Shadow
  • 1 Sword of Once and Future
  • 1 Sword of Sinew and Steel
  • 1 Sword of War and Peace
  • 1 Swordsman's Steel
  • 1 The Aetherspark
  • 1 The Sentry, Golden Guardian
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 With Great Power . . .