Elenda 🌹🤍🖤🌹 by VandalismusGandalf

Format: Commander

Commander: Elenda, the Dusk Rose

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 54

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Orzhov Aristocrats strategy piloted by Elenda, the Dusk Rose. The game plan revolves around generating cheap creature tokens, sacrificing them through mana-free outlets, and draining all opponents with death triggers. Elenda, the Dusk Rose acts as both a sponge for death triggers and an explosive token multiplier when sacrificed. Strong token producers like Bitterblossom, Ophiomancer, and Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia feed sacrifice outlets like Ashnod's Altar, Viscera Seer, and Warren Soultrader, converting fodder into mana and card selection. Aristocrat payoffs including Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Bastion of Remembrance, and Mirkwood Bats steadily reduce opposing life totals. The deck reaches a critical game-ending state around Turn 5 using explosive cards such as Tombstone Stairwell, Teysa Karlov, and Bolas's Citadel. Meanwhile, Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos lock down opposing creatures, ensuring complete board control on the way to a Turn 6 table finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blade of the Bloodchief
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cathars' Crusade
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda's Hierophant
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Feast of the Victorious Dead
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lazotep Quarry
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nim Deathmantle
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Skrelv's Hive
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Tarrian's Soulcleaver
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Tombstone Stairwell
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat