Silksong by WrongFootForward

Format: Commander

Commander: Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is an Esper Knight tribal deck led by Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir, built to leverage the commander's eminence ability for consistent card advantage and graveyard filling. The core strategy is to deploy a swarm of Knights, attack each turn to draw and discard via eminence, then reanimate key pieces with Sidar's combat-damage trigger or mass-recursion spells like Patriarch's Bidding and Knights' Charge. The deck wins through overwhelming combat damage fueled by anthem effects (Knight Exemplar, Valiant Knight, Haytham Kenway), double-strike enablers (Kinsbaile Cavalier, True Conviction), and finishers like Moonshaker Cavalry or Akroma's Will. Haakon, Stromgald Scourge provides additional grind by letting you cast Knights from the graveyard. While the deck lacks infinite combos, its dense recursion and protection suite make it a resilient midrange force.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 And They Shall Know No Fear
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Battle Angels of Tyr
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breathless Knight
  • 1 Cavalier of Dawn
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin
  • 1 Chivalric Alliance
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Dauntless Bodyguard
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Dion, Bahamut's Dominant // Bahamut, Warden of Light
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exsanguinator Cavalry
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forsworn Paladin
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Crescendo
  • 1 Guardian of Faith
  • 1 Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Haytham Kenway
  • 1 Herald of Hoofbeats
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Invasion of New Capenna // Holy Frazzle-Cannon
  • 1 Invasion of New Phyrexia // Teferi Akosa of Zhalfir
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kinsbaile Cavalier
  • 1 Knight Exemplar
  • 1 Knight of Dusk's Shadow
  • 1 Knight of the White Orchid
  • 1 Knights' Charge
  • 1 Locthwain Lancer
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Marshal of Zhalfir
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 1 Moonshaker Cavalry
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Paladin Danse, Steel Maverick
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir
  • 1 Smitten Swordmaster // Curry Favor
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Summon: Knights of Round
  • 1 Summon: Primal Odin
  • 1 Suppressor Skyguard
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 True Conviction
  • 1 Unsettled Mariner
  • 1 Valiant Knight
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Virtue of Loyalty // Ardenvale Fealty
  • 1 Vodalian Wave-Knight
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wintermoor Commander