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COMMANDER(S)
Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal
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- Orzhov
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ANALYSIS

Overview:

This is a graveyard-focused deck that utilizes Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal to enable a strong reanimator strategy while leveraging enchantment synergies for value generation and control elements.

Primer:

The deck operates on multiple axes, primarily focusing on reanimator strategies while using enchantments as a value engine. Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal provides consistent card selection through surveil, forces discards, and enables reanimation, creating a powerful engine that supports both aggressive and controlling gameplay patterns. The deck uses efficient tutors and entomb effects to fill the graveyard with high-impact creatures like Archon of Cruelty and Valgavoth, Terror Eater.

The secondary enchantment theme provides additional value through cards like Hallowed Haunting, Spirit-Sister's Call, and Ghostly Dancers. The deck can pivot between aggressive reanimation lines and controlling elements through cards like The Meathook Massacre and Solitary Confinement, making it adaptable to different game states while maintaining consistent pressure through recursive threats.

Weaknesses:

  • Vulnerable to graveyard hate like Rest in Peace and Leyline of the Void
  • Relatively dependent on the commander for optimal performance
  • Can struggle against heavy artifact/enchantment removal
  • Somewhat vulnerable to fast combo decks due to moderate interaction suite

Most Important Cards:

  1. Necropotence
  2. Smothering Tithe
  3. Living Death
  4. Spirit-Sister's Call
  5. Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
  6. Archon of Cruelty
  7. Animate Dead
  8. Reanimate
  9. Demonic Tutor
  10. The Meathook Massacre

Attribute Ratings:

  • Speed: 7/10
  • Resilience: 8/10
  • Consistency: 7/10
  • Interaction: 6/10

Rating Justification:

This deck operates at a focused competitive level, capable of establishing strong board positions by turn 5-6 through reanimation strategies while maintaining interaction and resilience. While it lacks the explosive speed of higher-powered decks, it makes up for it with strong recursive elements and multiple paths to victory. The combination of efficient tutors, strong reanimation targets, and enchantment-based value engines places it solidly in the 7.0-7.5 range.

Final power level rating: 7.2 - 7.5

The deck demonstrates too much consistency and power to be rated lower than 7.0, but lacks the explosive fast mana and turn 2-3 wins needed for an 8.0+ rating. Its ability to maintain pressure while recovering from disruption through multiple angles of attack makes it a solid focused competitive deck.

DECK LIST
Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal
Creature: 21
1
Ancient Brass Dragon
5 B B
1
Archon of Cruelty
6 B B
1
Athreos, Shroud-Veiled
4 W B
1
Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
1
Dockside Chef
B
1
Eagles of the North
5 W
1
Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
4 W
1
Ghostly Dancers
3 W W
1
Metamorphosis Fanatic
4 B B
1
Ondu Spiritdancer
4 W
1
Overlord of the Balemurk
3 B B
1
Sepulchral Primordial
5 B B
1
Soaring Lightbringer
4 W
1
Solitude
3 W W
1
Spirited Companion
1 W
1
Sun Titan
4 W W
1
Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
1 B
1
Troll of Khazad-dûm
5 B
1
Underworld Coinsmith
W B
1
Valgavoth, Terror Eater
6 B B B
1
Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
Sorcery: 7
1
Buried Alive
2 B
1
Damn
B B
1
Dark Deal
2 B
1
Demonic Tutor
1 B
1
Living Death
3 B B
1
Reanimate
B
1
Replenish
3 W
Instant: 10
1
Anguished Unmaking
1 W B
1
Enlightened Tutor
W
1
Entomb
B
1
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
1
Flare of Fortitude
2 W W
1
Inkshield
3 W B
1
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
1
Razorgrass Ambush // Razorgrass Field
1
Sheoldred's Edict
1 B
1
Vampiric Tutor
B
Artifact: 7
1
Altar of Dementia
2
1
Arcane Signet
2
1
Cloudstone Curio
3
1
Mesmeric Orb
2
1
Mindcrank
2
1
Sol Ring
1
1
Whip of Erebos
2 B B
Enchantment: 25
1
Animate Dead
1 B
1
Aura of Silence
1 W W
1
Authority of the Consuls
W
1
Bloodchief Ascension
B
1
Defiled Crypt // Cadaver Lab
3 B //  B
1
Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
2 B //  6 B B
1
Gift of Immortality
2 W
1
Glasswing Grace // Age-Graced Chapel
1
Hallowed Haunting
2 W W
1
Necromancy
2 B
1
Necropotence
B B B
1
Nowhere to Run
1 B
1
Parallax Wave
2 W W
1
Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette
1 B //  4 B
1
Ripples of Undeath
1 B
1
Secret Arcade // Dusty Parlor
4 W //  2 W
1
Smothering Tithe
3 W
1
Solitary Confinement
2 W
1
Spirit-Sister's Call
3 W B
1
The Meathook Massacre
X B B
1
The Restoration of Eiganjo // Architect of Restoration
1
Tinybones Joins Up
B
1
Trouble in Pairs
2 W W
1
Valkyrie's Call
3 W W
1
Waste Not
1 B
Land: 29
1
Bojuka Bog
1
Cabal Coffers
1
Caves of Koilos
1
Command Tower
1
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
1
Godless Shrine
1
Phyrexian Tower
7
Plains
1
Scrubland
1
Serra's Sanctum
1
Shadowy Backstreet
7
Swamp
1
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
1
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1
Urza's Saga
1
Valgavoth's Lair
1
Volrath's Stronghold