Killian by user8617582

Format: Commander

Commander: Killian, Ink Duelist

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov Voltron and Aura-centric strategy led by Killian, Ink Duelist. Killian discounts any spell targeting a creature by two generic mana, enabling the deck to cast powerful Auras and targeted interaction at an extreme mana discount. The game plan focuses on casting Killian on Turn 2, suiting him up on Turn 3 with cheap evasion and protection, and scaling his power rapidly using cards like All That Glitters, Light of Promise, and Twinblade Blessing. Because Killian possesses native lifelink and menace, early combat swings quickly establish dominant life buffers while presenting severe commander damage clocks. The deck relies on redundant 1-mana protection spells to counter targeted removal, alongside mass-reanimation sorceries like Replenish and Retether to shrug off sweepers. Winning requires eliminating opponents one by one across consecutive combat steps.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abstruse Appropriation
  • 1 All That Glitters
  • 1 Angelic Destiny
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Astarion's Thirst
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Celestial Mantle
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Courageous Resolve
  • 1 Dub
  • 1 Eldrazi Conscription
  • 1 Ethereal Armor
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 General's Enforcer
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Giver of Runes
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Hateful Eidolon
  • 1 Heliod's Punishment
  • 1 Holy Mantle
  • 1 Hyena Umbra
  • 1 Idolized
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Iona's Blessing
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jirina, Dauntless General
  • 1 Karametra's Blessing
  • 1 Killian, Ink Duelist
  • 1 Kor Spiritdancer
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Light of Promise
  • 1 Loran's Escape
  • 1 Mantle of the Ancients
  • 1 Mesa Enchantress
  • 1 Minimus Containment
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Odric, Lunarch Marshal
  • 1 Open the Armory
  • 1 Pearl-Ear, Imperial Advisor
  • 1 Phyresis
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 17 Plains
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Rebuff the Wicked
  • 1 Replenish
  • 1 Reprobation
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Retether
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sage's Reverie
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shay Cormac
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songbirds' Blessing
  • 1 Spirit Mantle
  • 1 Sram, Senior Edificer
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sunbond
  • 1 Super State
  • 1 Super-Soldier Serum
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tempest Technique
  • 1 Timely Ward
  • 1 Twinblade Blessing
  • 1 Umbra Mystic
  • 1 Unquestioned Authority
  • 1 Utter End
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Vow of Malice