Pilgrim’s Pestilence

Commander / EDH Aristocrats Combo Sacrifice Tokens WB (Orzhov)

Mediumrick

Creature (25)

• 1x Bartolome del Presidio
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Cartel Aristocrat
• 1x Corpse Knight
• 1x Cruel Celebrant
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Deep Gnome Terramancer
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Esper Sentinel
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Knight of the White Orchid
• 1x Leonin Relic-Warder
• 1x Mondrak, Glory Dominus
• 1x Moonshaker Cavalry
• 1x Morbid Opportunist
• 1x Ophiomancer
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer
• 1x Welcoming Vampire
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Blot Out the Sky
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Increasing Devotion
• 1x Ondu Inversion  ^Flip
• 1x Plague of Vermin
• 1x White Sun's Twilight
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will

Land (37)

• 1x Barad-dur
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Demolition Field
• 1x Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 10x Plains
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Urza's Saga
• 1x Vault of Champions
• 1x Vault of the Archangel
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Skrelv's Hive
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x The Meathook Massacre

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1x Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools

Commander (1)

Artifact (11)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spawning Pit
• 1x Springleaf Drum
• 1x Staff of the Storyteller
• 1x Sword of the Animist

Instant (9)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Call the Coppercoats
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Excise the Imperfect
• 1x Inkshield
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Secure the Wastes
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

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Maybeboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Mirkwood Bats
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim

Artifact (1)

• 1x Anduril, Flame of the West

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Damn
• 1x Farewell
• 1x Final Parting

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Anointed Procession

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{W}{B} Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim Aristocrats {W}{B}

This is a versatile midrange deck that has multiple avenues to win via combat damage, infinite combo, or aristocrat damage.

In general, the idea is to survive into the mid/late game with incremental life gain while benefiting from various value engines. Then go wide and use combat and/or sacrifice and aristocrat effects to close the game out.

The deck can go from essentially no board presence into explosive winning turns in the late game.

One especially synergistic card in the deck is Plague of Vermin. With the commander on the field, upon resolution of the spell pay all your life but 1 and get that many 1/1 rats, while gaining back that life. Often with a sacrifice outlet on board this will just outright win the game on the spot.

Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim is an infinite combo outlet in the command zone as well as providing incidental life gain and damaging opponents through the game.

Combo

This deck is not built to maximize the included infinite combo as I generally desire to win in other ways. The combo is in there as an answer to certain opposing strategies and at tables where a quick combo is the only chance the deck stands.

With Leonin Relic-Warder in the graveyard (either sacrificed or put there directly), reanimate it with either Animate Dead or Dance of the Dead. This creates an unlimited loop of etb/death triggers. This will cause infinite life loss for each opponent with Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim on the battlefield. Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Cruel Celebrant, Corpse Knight, The Meathook Massacre, and Syr Konrad, the Grim will also kill all opponents and Altar of Dementia will mill them. The whole combo can be assembled via the one card combo Final Parting.

The deck is flexible, fairly resilient, and very fun. Im always looking to improve and refine it so if you have experience with this style of deck Im happy to hear feedback. Thanks for checking it out.

Date added	1 year
Last updated	11 months
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 5 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.79
Tokens	2/2 C Artifact Creature Spawn, Construct 0/0 C, Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Human 1/1 W, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Incubator, Inkling 2/1 WB, Orc Army, Phyrexian 0/0 C, Phyrexian Mite 1/1 C, Rat 1/1 B, Shapeshifter 3/2 C, Snake 1/1 B, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 W, Thrull 0/1 B, Treasure, Warrior 1/1 W, Zombie 2/2 B