Knights by woodsman

Format: Commander

Creator: woodsman

Commander: Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Knight tribal deck commanded by Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir. It uses the commander's eminence ability to loot away high-cost, high-impact Knights during early attacks, sculpting hand quality while filling the graveyard. Once Sidar Jabari enters the battlefield on Turn 4, it uses its evasive combat damage trigger on Turn 5 to reanimate powerful lords and finishers, such as Herald of Hoofbeats, Kinsbaile Cavalier, and Moonshaker Cavalry. The deck maintains steady card flow through combat recursion and tribal draw engines like Kindred Discovery and Tocasia's Welcome. Because it does not run infinite combos or fast-mana packages, it wins strictly through accumulated combat damage over several turn cycles. It packs resilient creature answers and flexible exile removal in Void Rend and Farewell, but it remains susceptible to stack-based combo wins and mass exile board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Aryel, Knight of Windgrace
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Ayara's Oathsworn
  • 1 Basri's Lieutenant
  • 1 Cascading Cataracts
  • 1 Cavalier of Gales
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Coat of Arms
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Crippling Fear
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dawn of a New Age
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dion, Bahamut's Dominant // Bahamut, Warden of Light
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Elenda and Azor
  • 1 Esper Panorama
  • 1 Ethersworn Adjudicator
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinator Cavalry
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Feast of Sanity
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Foulmire Knight // Profane Insight
  • 1 Fountainport
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
  • 1 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
  • 1 Haytham Kenway
  • 1 Herald of Hoofbeats
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hero of Bladehold
  • 1 History of Benalia
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kinsbaile Cavalier
  • 1 Knight Exemplar
  • 1 Knight of Dusk's Shadow
  • 1 Knight of the Ebon Legion
  • 1 Knight of the White Orchid
  • 1 Knights' Charge
  • 1 Marshal of Zhalfir
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 1 Moonshaker Cavalry
  • 1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootborn Defenses
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Settle the Wreckage
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Smitten Swordmaster // Curry Favor
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Summon: Knights of Round
  • 1 Summon: Primal Odin
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Vodalian Wave-Knight
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Wintermoor Commander
  • 1 Worthy Knight