E by user3211500

Format: Commander

Commander: Elves of Deep Shadow

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Golgari battlecruiser ramp strategy optimized for the Pauper Commander format, utilizing Elves of Deep Shadow in the command zone for guaranteed early-game mana acceleration. The game plan focuses on deploying dense basic land ramp, cycling creatures, and mana rocks on turns 1 through 3, smoothly transitioning into midgame value engines like Monarch and Initiative triggers (Entourage of Trest, Avenging Hunter). Board control is maintained through recurring small-creature sweepers such as Pestilence, Crypt Rats, and Evincar's Justice, clearing the field while the deck's higher-toughness creatures survive. In the late game, the deck leverages its deep mana reserves to cast massive commons like Ulamog's Crusher, Maelstrom Colossus, and Crash of Rhino Beetles to overpower opposing boards through trample damage, annihilator triggers, and life drains from Gray Merchant of Asphodel.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Annoyed Altisaur
  • 1 Avenging Hunter
  • 1 Basilica Screecher
  • 1 Beacon Behemoth
  • 1 Beneath the Sands
  • 1 Bonder's Ornament
  • 1 Boulderbranch Golem
  • 1 Bramble Wurm
  • 1 Colossal Dreadmask
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Crash of Rhino Beetles
  • 1 Cruel Feeding
  • 1 Crypt Rats
  • 1 Dead Ringers
  • 1 Draugr Recruiter
  • 1 Dread Linnorm // Scale Deflection
  • 1 Drown in Sorrow
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Entourage of Trest
  • 1 Evincar's Justice
  • 1 Eyeblight Massacre
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 20 Forest
  • 1 Generous Ent
  • 1 Giant's Boulder
  • 1 Golgari Locket
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Greater Tanuki
  • 1 Grow from the Ashes
  • 1 Growth Spasm
  • 1 Haunted Cloak
  • 1 Heaped Harvest
  • 1 Infernal Idol
  • 1 Krosan Tusker
  • 1 Loathsome Curator
  • 1 Maelstrom Colossus
  • 1 Malboro
  • 1 Malevolent Rumble
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nylea's Forerunner
  • 1 Nyxborn Hydra
  • 1 Orazca Relic
  • 1 Oubliette
  • 1 Overgrowth
  • 1 Path to the Festival
  • 1 Pestilence
  • 1 Phyrexian Gargantua
  • 1 Pinnacle Kill-Ship
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Roamer's Routine
  • 1 Rot-Tide Gargantua
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Soul Stair Expedition
  • 1 Staunch Throneguard
  • 1 Suffocating Fumes
  • 1 Summon: Fat Chocobo
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 They Went This Way
  • 1 Thorn of the Black Rose
  • 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
  • 1 Ulamog's Crusher
  • 1 Underdark Explorer
  • 1 Unstable Obelisk
  • 1 Vicious Battlerager
  • 1 Warped Tusker
  • 1 You Meet in a Tavern