Budget Elder dragon by Boki

Format: Commander

Commander: Silverquill, the Disputant

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov Spellslinger and Aristocrats hybrid commanded by Silverquill, the Disputant. The strategy centers on generating disposable 1-power creature tokens through cards like Ophiomancer, Sedgemoor Witch, and Gather the Townsfolk, then using them as casualty fodder to duplicate impactful instants and sorceries. Doubling cheap draw spells like Corrupted Conviction and Nasty End ensures continuous card flow, while casualty on removal spells like Anguished Unmaking and Despark allows the deck to control opposing boards at high mana efficiency. As the game develops, death-drain permanents such as Cruel Celebrant, Bastion of Remembrance, and Syr Konrad, the Grim turn every casualty sacrifice into direct life loss for opponents. The deck closes games around Turn 9 through accumulated aristocrat drains, massive token swings buffed by Moogles' Valor, or resolving a copied Breach the Multiverse to overwhelm the table.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Angel's Grace
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blot Out the Sky
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Decode Transmissions
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Diary of Dreams
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Earthshape
  • 1 Elegy Acolyte
  • 1 Embrace Oblivion
  • 1 Emeritus of Truce // Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Eviscerator's Insight
  • 1 Feast of the Victorious Dead
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Gather the Townsfolk
  • 1 Gods Willing
  • 1 Hop to It
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Informed Inkwright
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Long Goodbye
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Melancholic Poet
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Moment of Reckoning
  • 1 Moogles' Valor
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Raven of Fell Omens
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Rootborn Defenses
  • 1 Scarblade's Malice
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Silverquill Charm
  • 1 Silverquill, the Disputant
  • 1 Snooping Page
  • 1 Social Snub
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stirring Hopesinger
  • 16 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Opulent Oligarch
  • 1 The Dawning Archaic
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 Treacherous Greed
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Vanishing Verse
  • 1 Vile Rebirth
  • 1 Visions of Glory
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat