Orzhov Burn/Lifegain.

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Orzhov Burn/Lifegain is a 100-card Commander deck led by Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim in the Orzhov color identity (white/black), played 3 times with a 67% win rate. TableCommander estimates this deck at bracket 3 — upgraded / mid-power.

The mainboard runs 32 creatures, 8 instants, 9 sorceries, 5 artifacts, 12 enchantments, and 34 lands, averaging 2.70 mana value across non-land cards. 77% of non-land cards cost 3 mana or less; 8% cost 5 or more.

Notable inclusions: 3 game changers (Smothering Tithe, Demonic Tutor, and Teferi's Protection), 1 fast mana (Dark Ritual), 2 cheap tutors (Entomb and Diabolic Intent), and 2 tutors (Beseech the Mirror and Grim Tutor). This deck is currently Commander-legal on TableCommander.

COMMANDER

Commander

CREATURE(31)

ARTIFACT(5)

ENCHANTMENT(12)

INSTANT(8)

SORCERY(9)

LAND(34)

Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt

Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway

4×

4×

TOKENS(17)

100

Total

Creatures

Spells

Lands

Bracket

Games

Wins

67%

Win Rate

Why bracket 3? — Upgraded

6 two-card combos: Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose + Bloodthirsty Conqueror, Sanguine Bond + Bloodthirsty Conqueror and 4 more

Two cards that together form an infinite combo (data from Commander Spellbook). Bracket 2 decks are expected not to run any; late-game combos are at home in Bracket 3.

3 Game Changers

Cards on WotC's official Game Changers list. Any puts a deck at Bracket 3 or above; more than three means Bracket 4.

Demonic TutorSmothering TitheTeferi's Protection

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CURVE

COLORS

1825%

5475%

COMBOS

Combos

Early

2-Card

3+ Card

Game-Ending

Sanguine Bond+

Exquisite Blood

Infinite lifegain triggers, Infinite lifeloss, Infinite lifegain

Prerequisites

You have a way to gain life.

Steps

Gain life.
Sanguine Bond triggers, causing an opponent to lose 1 life.
Exquisite Blood triggers, causing you to gain 1 life.
Repeat from step 2.

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Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose+

Exquisite Blood

Infinite lifegain triggers, Infinite lifeloss, Infinite lifegain

Prerequisites

You have a way to gain life.

Steps

Gain life.
Vito triggers, causing an opponent to lose 1 life.
Exquisite Blood triggers, causing you to gain 1 life.
Repeat from step 2.

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Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose+

Bloodthirsty Conqueror

Infinite lifegain triggers, Infinite lifeloss, Infinite lifegain

Prerequisites

You have a way to gain life.

Steps

Gain life.
Vito triggers, causing an opponent to lose 1 life.
Bloodthirsty Conqueror triggers, causing you to gain 1 life.
Repeat from step 2.

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Sanguine Bond+

Bloodthirsty Conqueror

Infinite lifegain triggers, Infinite lifeloss, Infinite lifegain

Prerequisites

You have a way to gain life.

Steps

Gain life.
Sanguine Bond triggers, causing an opponent to lose 1 life.
Bloodthirsty Conqueror triggers, causing you to gain 1 life.
Repeat from step 2.

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Exquisite Blood+

Enduring Tenacity

Infinite lifegain triggers, Infinite lifeloss, Infinite lifegain

Prerequisites

You have a way to gain life.

Steps

Gain life.
Enduring Tenacity triggers, causing an opponent to lose 1 life.
Exquisite Blood triggers, causing you to gain 1 life.
Repeat from step 2.

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Enduring Tenacity+

Bloodthirsty Conqueror

Infinite lifegain triggers, Infinite lifeloss, Infinite lifegain

Prerequisites

You have a way to gain life.

Steps

Gain life.
Enduring Tenacity triggers, causing an opponent to lose 1 life.
Bloodthirsty Conqueror triggers, causing you to gain 1 life.
Repeat from step 2.

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Ashnod's Altar+

Reassembling Skeleton+

Pitiless Plunderer

Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers

Steps

Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Reassembling Skeleton, adding CC.
When Reassembling Skeleton dies, Pitiless Plunderer triggers, creating a Treasure token.
Activate the Treasure token by tapping and sacrificing it, adding B.
Activate Reassembling Skeleton by paying 1B, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Repeat.

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Phyrexian Altar+

Reassembling Skeleton+

Pitiless Plunderer

Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers

Steps

Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Reassembling Skeleton, adding 1.
When Reassembling Skeleton dies, Pitiless Plunderer triggers, creating a Treasure token.
Activate the Treasure token by tapping and sacrificing it, adding B.
Activate Reassembling Skeleton by paying 1B, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Repeat.

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Blood Artist+

Phyrexian Altar+

Forsaken Miner

Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifegain, Infinite lifegain triggers, Infinite lifeloss, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers

Steps

Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Forsaken Miner, adding B.
When Forsaken Miner dies, Blood Artist triggers.
When you commit that crime, Forsaken Miner triggers, causing you to pay B to return it from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Resolve the Blood Artist trigger, causing target opponent to lose 1 life and gaining 1 life.
Repeat.

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Vengeful Bloodwitch+

Phyrexian Altar+

Forsaken Miner

Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers, Infinite death triggers, Infinite lifegain triggers, Infinite lifegain, Infinite lifeloss

Steps

Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Forsaken Miner, adding B.
When Forsaken Miner dies, Vengeful Bloodwitch triggers, targeting an opponent.
When you commit that crime, Forsaken Miner triggers, causing you to pay B to return it from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Resolve the Vengeful Bloodwitch trigger, causing target opponent to lose 1 life and gaining 1 life.
Repeat.

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Phyrexian Altar+

Athreos, God of Passage+

Forsaken Miner

Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers, Infinite death triggers

Steps

Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Forsaken Miner, adding B.
When Forsaken Miner dies, Athreos triggers, targeting an opponent.
When you commit that crime, Forsaken Miner triggers, causing you to pay B to return it from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Repeat.

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Drivnod, Carnage Dominus+

Reassembling Skeleton+

Pitiless Plunderer+

Viscera Seer

Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers, Infinite death triggers, Infinite scry 1

Steps

Activate Viscera Seer by sacrificing Reassembling Skeleton.
When Reassembling Skeleton dies, Pitiless Plunderer triggers twice, creating two Treasure tokens.
Resolve the Viscera Seer ability.
Activate the Treasure tokens by tapping and sacrificing them, adding 1B.
Activate Reassembling Skeleton by paying 1B, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Repeat.

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Combo data from Commander Spellbook. “Early” two-card combos (cheap enough to win in the first few turns) put a deck at Bracket 4; other two-card combos are at home in Bracket 3.

Valid

Legality

This deck currently passes the commander checks.

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