Fafner's Gold by Shinigami-13

Format: Commander

Commander: Shadrix Silverquill

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This Orzhov deck helmed by Shadrix Silverquill combines group hug card draw, pillowfort defense, and sudden-death alternate win conditions. Rather than winning through creature combat, the strategy accelerates table card draw with artifacts like Howling Mine, Font of Mythos, and Temple Bell, pacifying opponents while filling their hands. Defensive enchantments like Ghostly Prison, Solitary Confinement, and Marchesa's Decree, coupled with blowout fogs like Inkshield and Batwing Brume, deter attacks and keep the pilot alive. Meanwhile, mass draw converts into overwhelming resources via Smothering Tithe and punishes opponents through Iron Maiden and Price of Knowledge. The primary endgame focuses on resolving Approach of the Second Sun, utilizing the deck's excessive card velocity to quickly dig through the library and cast it a second time for a definitive victory. Heavy board wipes and artifact/enchantment recursion provide resilience against opposing aggression.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Argivian Find
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Batwing Brume
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Blood Pact
  • 1 Blot Out the Sky
  • 1 Bucknard's Everfull Purse
  • 1 Castle Ardenvale
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Contract Killing
  • 1 Coveted Jewel
  • 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
  • 1 Cut a Deal
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Damnable Pact
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Darkness
  • 1 Dawn to Dusk
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Deadly Derision
  • 1 Ebony Owl Netsuke
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Font of Mythos
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Ghirapur Orrery
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Greater Auramancy
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Harrowing Journey
  • 1 Horn of Greed
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Iron Maiden
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 1 Marchesa's Decree
  • 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
  • 1 Mine Excavation
  • 1 Monumental Corruption
  • 1 Noble's Purse
  • 1 Norn's Decree
  • 1 Oblation
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Otherworld Atlas
  • 1 Pact of the Serpent
  • 1 Painful Lesson
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Pendant of Prosperity
  • 12 Plains
  • 1 Price of Knowledge
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Secret Rendezvous
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Silverquill Command
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Solitary Confinement
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 Temple Bell
  • 1 Temporary Truce
  • 1 Tempting Contract
  • 1 Tenuous Truce
  • 1 Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca
  • 1 The Gold Saucer
  • 1 The Rack
  • 1 Throne of the High City
  • 1 Treasure Map // Treasure Cove
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Truce
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Wedding Ring
  • 1 What Must Be Done
  • 1 Wrath of God
  • 1 Your Temple Is Under Attack