Shay Cormac by TJ_Bulldog

Format: Commander

Commander: Shay Cormac

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This Orzhov deck uses Shay Cormac to control the board and grow a single threat. You strip hexproof, indestructible, protection, shroud and ward for {1}, then target opposing creatures with cheap removal to place bounty counters. When those creatures die, Shay gains two +1/+1 counters and becomes a commander-damage threat. Killian, Ink Duelist and Deathbringer Liege reduce and reward targeting, while Super Shredder, Vadmir and Animation Module turn every death into counters and tokens. Secondary wins come from Blood Artist drain, Black Market mana and Walking Ballista. The plan is interactive and grindy, not combo, and needs repeated removal to close games.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animation Module
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Avatar of Woe
  • 1 Bandit's Haul
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bounty Board
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Curtains' Call
  • 1 Cut Down
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Deathbringer Liege
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Doom Blade
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fateful Absence
  • 1 Feast of the Victorious Dead
  • 1 Fell
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fracture
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Haystack
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 Hex
  • 1 Intrepid Hero
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jaws of Defeat
  • 1 Killian, Ink Duelist
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phantom Blade
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Rattleback Apothecary
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Royal Assassin
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shay Cormac
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Super Shredder
  • 17 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Termination Facilitator
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teyo, Geometric Tactician
  • 1 The Aetherspark
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Unwanted Remake
  • 1 V.A.T.S.
  • 1 Vadmir, New Blood
  • 1 Valorous Stance
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Withering Torment