Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld by Tharris31

Format: Commander

Commander: Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 88

Deck overview

This deck is a high-speed competitive Dimir combo list commanded by Emet-Selch, Unsundered. It focuses on assembling compact, highly protected win conditions as early as Turn 2. The primary win line pairs Thassa's Oracle with Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact to exile the library and win on resolution. A singleton land base featuring basic and snow-covered variants guarantees seamless Tainted Pact resolutions. Format-ceiling acceleration from cards like Chrome Mox, Mana Vault, and Dark Ritual enables explosive starts, while premier tutors ensure rapid access to combo pieces. If the primary plan is contested, transformed commander Hades, Sorcerer of Eld grants full access to play spells from the graveyard, while backup combos such as Basalt Monolith with Power Artifact into Walking Ballista or Isochron Scepter reversals offer resilient win vectors. A dense suite of free and 1-mana counterspells protects combo windows and disrupts fast opposing attempts.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Capture of Jingzhou
  • 1 Careful Study
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consign to Memory
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Delay
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 1 Intuition
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Power Artifact
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Quistis Trepe
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Stifle
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temporal Manipulation
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Winding Canyons