Blackblade Voltron by user6661702

Format: Commander

Commander: Dakkon Blackblade

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Lands and Voltron strategy helmed by Dakkon Blackblade. Operating outside traditional green ramp colors, it utilizes artifact-based land searchers, creature-based land fetching, and equipment synergies to steadily scale land counts. The primary game plan focuses on assembling 6 to 8 lands to deploy a massive Dakkon Blackblade, then enhancing him with evasion and power multipliers such as Steel of the Godhead, Blackblade Reforged, and Lightning Greaves. Backed by premium Esper control pieces including Swords to Plowshares, Counterspell, and Void Rend, the deck protects its commander while systematically eliminating opponents via lethal commander damage. Secondary threats like Ob Nixilis, the Fallen, Korlash, Heir to Blackblade, and Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival provide resilient backup win conditions that capitalize on the high land density.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bant Panorama
  • 1 Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Blacksmith's Skill
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cosima, God of the Voyage // The Omenkeel
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dakkon Blackblade
  • 1 Dakkon, Shadow Slayer
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Deprive
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Divine Reckoning
  • 1 Doom Blade
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dreamscape Artist
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explorer's Scope
  • 1 Fell
  • 1 General's Enforcer
  • 1 Ghirapur Orrery
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gideon Blackblade
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Golden Guardian // Gold-Forge Garrison
  • 1 Herald of Leshrac
  • 1 Iridescent Vinelasher
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Keeper of the Accord
  • 1 Knight of the White Orchid
  • 1 Kor Cartographer
  • 1 Korlash, Heir to Blackblade
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Loran's Escape
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nine Lives
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Open the Armory
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Unlife
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Puresteel Paladin
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scaretiller
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Steel of the Godhead
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Terrain Generator
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Reality Chip
  • 1 Time Wipe
  • 1 Tribute Mage
  • 1 Trophy Mage
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Walking Atlas
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival