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Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim - community staples
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim · BW · 100 cards · 35 lands
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Bracket 3 - UpgradedCommander 1Creatures 44Instants 11Sorceries 2Artifacts 5Enchantments 2Lands 35
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Strategy
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim leads a deck built from the cards players most often run with it, sacrificing its own creatures for value and draining the table. The list holds 12 ramp pieces, 9 pieces of targeted interaction, 2 board wipes and 9 sources of card draw, at an average mana value of 2.31.
Early: Use the early turns on mana and on the commander itself. Deadly Dispute and the other 11 ramp pieces are there to power what comes after Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim, not to cast it - at 2 mana it should be on the table almost immediately.
Mid: Once the commander is down, the deck wants to be doing two things at once: advancing its own board and answering everyone else's. Swords to Plowshares is the first answer you will usually reach for, and Skullclamp keeps the hand full while you do it.
Late: Hold Amalia Benavides Aguirre for the turn the table gets ahead of you - with 2 in the deck you can afford to use one early and still have an answer later. At 2.31 average mana value the top end is cheap, so expect to deploy several spells a turn.
Win conditions: Wins by draining life a few points at a time while the board keeps recurring.
- Zulaport Cutthroat - Core to the plan
- Corpse Knight - Core to the plan
- Cruel Celebrant - Core to the plan
- Marauding Blight-Priest - Core to the plan
- Viscera Seer - Core to the plan
- Blood Artist - Core to the plan
- Suture Priest - Core to the plan
- Reassembling Skeleton - Core to the plan
~$503.85
estimated to build this deck
Commander (1)
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Kor Cleric
Deathtouch
Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Whenever another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.
Creatures (44)
Zulaport Cutthroat
Creature — Human Rogue Ally
$1.02
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Corpse Knight
Creature — Zombie Knight
$0.39
Whenever another creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life.
Cruel Celebrant
Creature — Vampire
$0.85
Whenever this creature or another creature or planeswalker you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Marauding Blight-Priest
Creature — Vampire Cleric
$0.19
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Viscera Seer
Creature — Vampire Wizard
$0.42
Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Blood Artist
Creature — Vampire
$2.67
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Suture Priest
Creature — Phyrexian Cleric
$1.53
Whenever another creature you control enters, you may gain 1 life.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you may have that player lose 1 life.
Reassembling Skeleton
Creature — Skeleton Warrior
$0.22
{1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Teysa Karlov
Legendary Creature — Human Advisor
$1.91
If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
Creature tokens you control have vigilance and lifelink.
Soul Warden
Creature — Human Cleric
$2.77
Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.
Bartolomé del Presidio
Legendary Creature — Vampire Knight
$0.3
Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Bartolomé del Presidio.
Carrion Feeder
Creature — Zombie
$3.84
This creature can't block.
Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Starscape Cleric
Creature — Bat Cleric
$1.04
Offspring {2}{B} (You may pay an additional {2}{B} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.)
Flying
This creature can't block.
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
Pitiless Plunderer
Creature — Human Pirate
$3.75
Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Priest of Forgotten Gods
Creature — Human Cleric
$0.6
{T}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature of their choice. You add {B}{B} and draw a card. (Activate only as an instant.)
Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
Legendary Creature — Vampire Cleric
$9.79
Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
{3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.
Marionette Apprentice
Creature — Human Artificer
$2.62
Fabricate 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.)
Whenever another creature or artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.
Morbid Opportunist
Creature — Human Rogue
$0.23
Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Cathar Commando
Creature — Human Soldier
$0.21
Flash
{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Ophiomancer
Creature — Human Shaman
$0.95
At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
$1.21
At the beginning of your end step, if you control no creatures with decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)
Elenda, the Dusk Rose
Legendary Creature — Vampire Knight
$5.72
Lifelink
Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Elenda.
When Elenda dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is Elenda's power.
Soul's Attendant
Creature — Human Cleric
$5.74
Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.
Mirkwood Bats
Creature — Bat
$0.91
Flying
Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.
Fleshtaker
Creature — Human Assassin
$0.28
Whenever you sacrifice another creature, you gain 1 life and scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{1}, Sacrifice another creature: This creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
Doomed Traveler
Creature — Human Soldier
$0.06
When this creature dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.
Warren Soultrader
Creature — Zombie Goblin Wizard
$16.4
Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Umbral Collar Zealot
Creature — Human Cleric
$0.36
Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Esper Sentinel
Artifact Creature — Human Soldier
$60.54
Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is this creature's power.
Lurrus of the Dream-Den
Legendary Creature — Cat Nightmare
$2.04
Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has mana value 2 or less. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.)
Lifelink
Once during each of your turns, you may cast a permanent spell with mana value 2 or less from your graveyard.
Denethor, Ruling Steward
Legendary Creature — Human Noble
$0.28
At the beginning of your end step, if a creature died under your control this turn, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
{2}, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Braids, Arisen Nightmare
Legendary Creature — Nightmare
$4.18
At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.
Vengeful Bloodwitch
Creature — Vampire Warlock
$0.3
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Accursed Marauder
Creature — Zombie Warrior
$0.28
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.
Syr Konrad, the Grim
Legendary Creature — Human Knight
$1.21
Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent.
{1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Vraan, Executioner Thane
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Vampire
$0.35
Whenever one or more other creatures you control die, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
Legendary Creature — Halfling Rogue
$10.5
Whenever a player casts their second spell each turn, you lose 1 life and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
Legendary Creature — Kor Cleric
$0.26
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
{1}, Sacrifice another creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature's toughness.
{1}{W}{B}, Sacrifice another creature: Exile target nonland permanent. Activate only if you have at least 10 life more than your starting life total.
Pawn of Ulamog
Creature — Vampire Shaman
$0.52
Whenever this creature or another nontoken creature you control dies, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."
Midnight Reaper
Creature — Zombie Knight
$0.23
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.
Welcoming Vampire
Creature — Vampire
$2.53
Flying
Whenever one or more other creatures you control with power 2 or less enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Grim Haruspex
Creature — Human Wizard
$2.61
Morph {B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.
Enduring Innocence
Enchantment Creature — Sheep Glimmer
$3.76
Lifelink
Whenever one or more other creatures you control with power 2 or less enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
When Enduring Innocence dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)
Amalia Benavides Aguirre
Legendary Creature — Vampire Scout
$0.34
Ward—Pay 3 life.
Whenever you gain life, Amalia Benavides Aguirre explores. Then destroy all other creatures if its power is exactly 20. (To have this creature explore, reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)
Instants (11)
Swords to Plowshares
Instant
$1.42
Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.
Village Rites
Instant
$0.28
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Path to Exile
Instant
$1.01
Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Deadly Dispute
Instant
$0.29
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Vampiric Tutor
Instant
$51
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.
Culling the Weak
Instant
$6.88
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.
Sorceries (2)
Demonic Tutor
Sorcery
$62.17
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Damn
Sorcery
$1.91
Destroy target creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated.
Overload {2}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Artifacts (5)
Skullclamp
Artifact — Equipment
$4.82
Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip {1}
Bolas's Citadel
Legendary Artifact
$9.05
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
{T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.
Wayfarer's Bauble
Artifact
$0.3
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Enchantments (2)
Bastion of Remembrance
Enchantment
$0.27
When this enchantment enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Black Market Connections
Enchantment
$9.15
At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)
Lands (35)
Bojuka Bog
Land
$1.24
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.
Phyrexian Tower
Legendary Land
$28.43
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.
Vault of the Archangel
Land
$0.74
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Legendary Land
$55.46
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Castle Ardenvale
Land
$0.23
This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains.
{T}: Add {W}.
{2}{W}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 white Human creature token.
Mortuary Mire
Land
$0.29
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
{T}: Add {B}.
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
Legendary Land
$11.85
{T}: Add {B}.
Channel — {3}{B}, Discard this card: Mill three cards, then return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Castle Locthwain
Land
$4.07
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
Legendary Land
$5.66
{T}: Add {W}.
Channel — {2}{W}, Discard this card: It deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Basic lands: 16 Swamp 7 Plains
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