Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar, Noble Heritage by Sageofsausage

Format: Commander

Commander: Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Orzhov Aristocrats deck is led by the partner pairing of Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar and the Background Noble Heritage. The primary game plan revolves around leveraging Noble Heritage to place +1/+1 counters on your creatures-granting political protection while rapidly inflating creature power-and then sacrificing those large creatures to Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar to draw massive bursts of cards. The deck converts card advantage and sacrifice loops into victory through classic aristocrats drain engines like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Cruel Celebrant, and Bastion of Remembrance. Secondary win conditions include massive life-drain bursts via Gray Merchant of Asphodel, devastating one-sided graveyard swings with Living Death, and wide aerial combat damage created by Felisa, Fang of Silverquill, Elenda, the Dusk Rose, and Inkshield.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Afterlife Insurance
  • 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Prophecy
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda's Hierophant
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Felisa, Fang of Silverquill
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Nested Shambler
  • 1 Nils, Discipline Enforcer
  • 1 Noble Heritage
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scholar of New Horizons
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Vanishing Verse
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat