New Untitled Deck by Krull52-2512

Format: Commander

Commander: Ihsan's Shade

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 15

Deck overview

This mono-black deck is built around Shade tribal synergies led by Ihsan's Shade. The primary strategy focuses on developing Swamps, casting Shades with firebreathing-style pump abilities, and attacking opponents while keeping mana open for combat tricks and spot removal. The deck includes extensive targeted creature removal and an array of graveyard-hate artifacts, alongside the Lucky Charms life-gain cycle to mitigate life loss from cards like Greed and Read the Bones. However, the deck operates with limited mana acceleration and card draw engines, relying primarily on top-decked resources. Because its damage output is distributed through single-target combat steps without infinite combos or mass evasion, closing games requires multiple uninterrupted turn cycles. It excels in casual battlecruiser environments where steady combat trades and high creature removal density can grind down opponents over a long game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Angel's Feather
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Blood Pact
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Chilling Shade
  • 1 Chrome Companion
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Corrupt
  • 1 Cranial Archive
  • 1 Crypt Ripper
  • 1 Deepwood Legate
  • 1 Demon's Grasp
  • 1 Demon's Horn
  • 1 Doom Blade
  • 1 Drag to the Underworld
  • 1 Dragon's Claw
  • 1 Drain Life
  • 1 Drifting Shade
  • 1 Dungeon Shade
  • 1 Dutiful Return
  • 1 Elspeth's Nightmare
  • 1 Eternal Thirst
  • 1 Evernight Shade
  • 1 Eyes of the Beholder
  • 1 Feast of Sanity
  • 1 Frozen Shade
  • 1 Gateway Shade
  • 1 Greed
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 Ichor Shade
  • 1 Ihsan's Shade
  • 1 Kraken's Eye
  • 1 Liliana's Shade
  • 1 Looming Shade
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mire Shade
  • 1 Mirror Shield
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Necrosynthesis
  • 1 Nightwing Shade
  • 1 Nihil Spellbomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Perilous Shadow
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise Again
  • 1 Shade's Breath
  • 1 Skeleton Key
  • 1 Slithering Shade
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 Spectrum Sentinel
  • 1 Stonespeaker Crystal
  • 32 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tattered Apparition
  • 1 Tendrils of Corruption
  • 1 Terror
  • 1 Thirsting Shade
  • 1 Tormod's Cryptkeeper
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Undercity Shade
  • 1 Veiled Shade
  • 1 Whispering Shade
  • 1 Wurm's Tooth
  • 1 Zof Shade