Silver and Shadow by Ioun

Format: Commander

Creator: Ioun

Commander: Noble Heritage and Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck pairs Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar with Noble Heritage to create a synergistic midrange engine that blends +1/+1 counters, aristocrat sacrifice value, and political combat deterrence. Noble Heritage pumps your creatures for free while dissuading attacks from opponents who take the counters. Shadowheart turns these inflated creatures into massive bursts of card draw. The deck leverages this raw velocity to assemble sticky death-trigger boards featuring Elenda, the Dusk Rose, Felisa, Fang of Silverquill, and Luminous Broodmoth, converting bodies into life drain via Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Syr Konrad, the Grim. Finish lines center on alpha strikes augmented by Akroma's Will or massive board sacrifices yielding lethal reach.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abzan Falconer
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Astarion's Thirst
  • 1 Astarion, the Decadent
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Ayara's Oathsworn
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dusk Legion Duelist
  • 1 Duty Beyond Death
  • 1 Ebondeath, Dracolich
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda's Hierophant
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Felisa, Fang of Silverquill
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Generous Pup
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Guardian Scalelord
  • 1 Guardian of Faith
  • 1 High Priest of Penance
  • 1 Hopeful Initiate
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Lunarch
  • 1 Minthara, Merciless Soul
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 1 Nils, Discipline Enforcer
  • 1 Noble Heritage
  • 1 Orzhov Advokist
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resourceful Defense
  • 1 Retribution of the Ancients
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
  • 1 Selfless Squire
  • 1 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starlit Sanctum
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Together Forever
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Viconia, Drow Apostate
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Your Temple Is Under Attack
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat