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Elenda, the Dusk Rose · BW · 100 cards · 37 lands
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Bracket 3 - UpgradedCommander 1Creatures 46Instants 7Sorceries 2Artifacts 6Enchantments 1Lands 37
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Strategy
Elenda, the Dusk Rose leads a deck built from the cards players most often run with it, putting +1/+1 counters on things and growing them out of range. 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 2.85.
Early: Use the early turns on mana. Ashnod's Altar and the rest of the 12 ramp pieces are what let the deck cast Elenda, the Dusk Rose on curve and keep casting after it.
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 Welcoming Vampire keeps the hand full while you do it.
Late: Hold Damn 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 2.85 average mana value the top end is middling, which means most turns hold two spells.
Win conditions: Wins by growing a threat past what the table can answer and connecting with it.
- Blade of the Bloodchief - Core to the plan
- Cordial Vampire - Core to the plan
- Teysa Karlov - Core to the plan
- Cruel Celebrant - Core to the plan
- Blood Artist - Core to the plan
- Viscera Seer - Core to the plan
- Elenda's Hierophant - Core to the plan
- Bartolomé del Presidio - Core to the plan
~$455.40
estimated to build this deck
Commander (1)
Elenda, the Dusk Rose
Legendary Creature — Vampire Knight
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.
Creatures (46)
Cordial Vampire
Creature — Vampire
$2.08
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.
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.
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.
Blood Artist
Creature — Vampire
$2.67
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 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.)
Elenda's Hierophant
Creature — Vampire Cleric
$5.53
Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is its power.
Bartolomé del Presidio
Legendary Creature — Vampire Knight
$0.3
Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Bartolomé del Presidio.
Yahenni, Undying Partisan
Legendary Creature — Aetherborn Vampire
$0.31
Haste
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Yahenni.
Sacrifice another creature: Yahenni gains indestructible until end of turn.
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.
Charismatic Conqueror
Creature — Vampire Soldier
$22.87
Vigilance
Whenever an artifact or creature an opponent controls enters untapped, they may tap that permanent. If they don't, you create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Kor Cleric
$0.84
Deathtouch
Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.
Whenever another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life.
Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
Legendary Creature — Vampire Soldier
$5.72
Flying
Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on Carmen and you gain 1 life.
Whenever Carmen attacks, return up to one target permanent card with mana value less than or equal to Carmen's power from your graveyard to the battlefield.
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.
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.
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.")
Indulgent Aristocrat
Creature — Vampire Noble
$0.16
Lifelink
{2}, Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.
Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle
Legendary Creature — Vampire Cleric
$0.33
Whenever one or more nontoken Vampires you control attack, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.
Sanctum Seeker
Creature — Vampire Knight
$0.31
Whenever a Vampire you control attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Master of Dark Rites
Creature — Vampire Cleric
$4.43
{T}, Sacrifice another creature: Add {B}{B}{B}. Spend this mana only to cast Vampire, Cleric, and/or Demon spells.
Mirkwood Bats
Creature — Bat
$0.91
Flying
Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.
Legion Lieutenant
Creature — Vampire Knight
$0.41
Other Vampires you control get +1/+1.
Butcher of Malakir
Creature — Vampire Warrior
$0.32
Flying
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Clavileño, First of the Blessed
Legendary Creature — Vampire Cleric
$0.73
Whenever you attack, target attacking Vampire that isn't a Demon becomes a Demon in addition to its other types. It gains "When this creature dies, draw a card and create a tapped 4/3 white and black Vampire Demon creature token with flying."
Twilight Prophet
Creature — Vampire Cleric
$1.99
Flying
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.
Captivating Vampire
Creature — Vampire
$1.82
Other Vampire creatures you control get +1/+1.
Tap five untapped Vampires you control: Gain control of target creature. It becomes a Vampire in addition to its other types.
Bloodghast
Creature — Vampire Spirit
$0.93
This creature can't block.
This creature has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
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.
Champion of Dusk
Creature — Vampire Knight
$0.26
When this creature enters, you draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the number of Vampires you control.
Felisa, Fang of Silverquill
Legendary Creature — Vampire Wizard
$1.74
Flying
Mentor (Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on target attacking creature with lesser power.)
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, if it had counters on it, create X tapped 2/1 white and black Inkling creature tokens with flying, where X is the number of counters it had on it.
Morbid Opportunist
Creature — Human Rogue
$0.23
Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Luminous Broodmoth
Creature — Insect
$0.64
Flying
Whenever a creature you control without flying dies, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a flying counter on it.
Falkenrath Noble
Creature — Vampire Noble
$0.15
Flying
Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Drana, Liberator of Malakir
Legendary Creature — Vampire Ally
$0.93
Flying, first strike
Whenever Drana deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on each attacking creature you control.
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.
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.")
Patron of the Vein
Creature — Vampire Shaman
$0.3
Flying
When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, exile it and put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.
Marauding Blight-Priest
Creature — Vampire Cleric
$0.19
Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.
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}."
Preacher of the Schism
Creature — Vampire Cleric
$1.15
Deathtouch
Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.
Whenever this creature attacks while you have the most life or are tied for most life, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
Legendary Creature — Human Cleric
$25.13
Protection from Humans
Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card.
{B}{B}, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Crossway Troublemakers
Creature — Vampire
$0.29
Attacking Vampires you control have deathtouch and lifelink. (Any amount of damage they deal to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by those creatures also causes their controller to gain that much life.)
Whenever a Vampire you control dies, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.
Teysa, Orzhov Scion
Legendary Creature — Human Advisor
$1.29
Sacrifice three white creatures: Exile target creature.
Whenever another black creature you control dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.
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.)
Accursed Marauder
Creature — Zombie Warrior
$0.28
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.
Ruthless Lawbringer
Creature — Vampire Assassin
$0.27
When this creature enters, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, destroy target nonland permanent.
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 (7)
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.")
Fake Your Own Death
Instant
$0.15
Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control and you create a Treasure token." (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Sorceries (2)
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.")
Demonic Tutor
Sorcery
$62.17
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Artifacts (6)
Blade of the Bloodchief
Artifact — Equipment
$6.26
Whenever a creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on equipped creature. If equipped creature is a Vampire, put two +1/+1 counters on it instead.
Equip {1}
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 (1)
Smothering Tithe
Enchantment
$54.96
Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Lands (37)
Bojuka Bog
Land
$1.24
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {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.
Rogue's Passage
Land
$0.39
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Phyrexian Tower
Legendary Land
$28.43
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Legendary Land
$55.46
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Windbrisk Heights
Land
$0.21
Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
{W}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if you attacked with three or more creatures this turn.
Spymaster's Vault
Land
$2.75
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
{T}: Add {B}.
{B}, {T}: Target creature you control connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)
Temple of the False God
Land
$0.17
{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.
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.
Basic lands: 19 Swamp 6 Plains
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