Stronghold Overseer

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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Stronghold Overseer

Creature — Demon

Flying

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

(Black)(Black): Creatures with shadow get +1/+0 until end of turn and creatures without shadow get -1/-0 until end of turn.

multimedia on Rakdos, Lord of Riots Demon Tribal

1 year ago

In my last comment suggested a lot of cards to add, now here's some cards to consider cutting. For cards to consider cutting I would start with all the lower mana cost nonDemon creatures. I would simply replace these with other lower mana cost cards that can better enable Rakdos without attacking and reduce creature mana costs without attacking.

Rather than playing a lot of single creature removal spells, rely more on Demons who can destroy or remove creatures? Especially Demons who have repeatable removal effects. You could cut many creature removal spells and replace them with more draw.

Searing Spear, Shock, Disintegrate can target a player to make them lose life, but you have Lightning Bolt for that and you can make opponent lose life better ways then playing single burn spells. Some budget single removal spells are helpful such as Chaos Warp and Feed the Swarm because these spells can remove an enchantment, Warp any permanent. When attacking is important to your game plan these can remove Ghostly Prison, Propaganda and others.


Rakdos can only reduce the mana cost of creatures therefore play very few noncreature high mana cost spells or spells that require a lot of mana to be useful. Spells that need a lot mana paid to make them decent is not really what you want when playing many high mana cost creatures. Could cut these for more draw and ramp.

Rolling Earthquake is a budget spell like this that's worth playing because you can control how much damage each creature is going to take, most Demons including Rakdos have high toughness. You could cut a few of the lesser Demons.

Master of the Feast is really bad card in multiplayer Commander because only your opponents draw. Awaken the Sky Tyrant, Wretched Confluence and Seal of the Guildpact are subpar for the mana costs.


In my last comment I recommended adding a lot of loot effects for draw. Loot is excellent with Blood Speaker and Speaker is a good reason to play Demon tribal since it's a tribal tutor that can be repeatable, return to your hand from your graveyard. Rakdos can reduce Speaker's mana cost to only 1 mana, making it a mana efficient way to repeatedly tutor for Demons.

Loot can be an enabler for reanimation and recursion which are helpful effects to have with Demons. Reanimation is a way to get Demons onto the battlefield without having to cast them, a backup for when Rakdos is disrupted. Recursion is getting Demons back into your hand or casting them from your graveyard. Patriarch's Bidding can reanimate all Demons in your graveyard. Persist and Exhume can reanimate for only two mana.

Chainer, Nightmare Adept has interaction with looting, getting Demons into your graveyard to cast them using Rakdos mana cost reduction. If you discard a Demon using Chainer's ability you can cast that same Demon giving it haste to attack. Rakdos also gains haste from Chainer when he's cast from the Command Zone. Any creature you reanimate gains haste from Chainer.

Chainer has excellent interaction with creatures who can sac themselves for value such as Magus of the Wheel and Doomed Necromancer. With Chainer these creatures gain haste when cast from your graveyard allowing them to tap and activate their abilities right away. Doomed Necromancer can reanimate even at instant speed. Chainer is good with Blood Speaker as discard outlet that can keep coming back to your hand.


Some more budget Demons to consider adding:

Some budget land upgrades to consider:

Temple of the False God is not a good land when you have no land ramp. It will not tap for mana until at least turn five and that's if you make all your land drops. Even if playing green and land ramp such as Cultivate I still wouldn't play Temple of the False God, it's just not a good enough land in the early turns of a game.

PosLightning on Shadow and shade

4 years ago

Maybe reduce the number of Stronghold Overseer by 1 or 2 cuz u won’t wanna draw him until later game

destindigi on Rakdos RNG

5 years ago

I'd cut: Griselbrand (banned :P), Soulcage Fiend , The Scorpion God , Stronghold Overseer , Hazoret's Monument , Revel in Riches

I'd recommend adding more lands and lower cost creatures, and switching mana rocks to use more that cost 2 instead of 3 like Talisman of Indulgence or Mind Stone

Lower cost Demons, Devils and Imps: Ammit Eternal , Cadaver Imp , Desecration Demon , Herald of Torment , Sin Prodder , Soot Imp , Spawn of Mayhem , Torch Fiend

Darth_Savage on If Do Right, No Can Defense

5 years ago

Looter il-Kor is both a rogue and is essentially unblockable, while also having the looting ability. Along a similar vein Nether Traitor is recursable and Stronghold Overseer might just work as an alternative finisher. Most players have forgotten Shadow even exists, so you may as well use it to your advantage. I'd second rdean14 on adding some removal, be it Vapor Snag or Fatal Push... For resillience against removal Supernatural Stamina or Undying Evil might work. Hope thi si of some help, good luck with your brew.

RobertButler23 on

5 years ago

I really really like this deck, all off the shadow creatures fit nicely with Stronghold Overseer . All that I would suggest is cards like Thoughtseize and Inquisition of Kozilek to make sure all that great stuff won't get interrupted.

elgosu1337 on Marchesa and things that annoy you

6 years ago

Dimir Signet will help with ramp. If you have so much unblockable stuff, Dowsing Dagger  Flip and Sword of the Animist could be good ways to ramp. Also Thada Adel, Acquisitor. Also, you have Stronghold Overseer but no other cards with shadow, so it doesn't seem that helpful. You might not need the Platinum Angel much either.

You could take a look at my Vela deck which uses Eldrazi and other creatures for control, and Ninja to bounce and reuse them.


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Hybrow on Shadowborn Apostles and the demons who love them

6 years ago

Penthoplayer I have looked at Edgewalker before, as well as Zulaport Cutthroat, they are both very tempting (Blood Artist, I lump in with Cutthroat)..

The problem with Edgewalker that I see from playtests is that I am not really worried about paying for my Shadowborn Apostles. They are pretty cheap, and after the first initial hand, I am not hurting for mana. And with Thrumming Stone, Immortal Servitude, and Rally the Ancestors I tend to not pay too much for them after the first few hands.

Zulaport Cutthroat is super tempting, the more I play this, the more I realize that I don't need 10 demons in the deck. And the direct damage/Lifegain is nice. I would also get it for the Apostles and then again for the spirits that Teysa, Orzhov Scion produces. I think I am going to have to find a spot for him, but I am thinking only 1 spot, so no Blood Artist :)

Now I just have to figure out my most useless Demon, thinking it might be Stronghold Overseer.

ZeGinger on Athreo's Apostles

7 years ago

Of course! Archfiend of Depravity keeps your opponents from going wide.

Abyssal Persecutor puts hate off you while providing a beatatick.

Kothophed, Soul Hoarder is worth a shot for the card draw,a although it is risky.

Ob Nixilis, the Fallen gets huge quickly and saps life too.

Elbrus, the Binding Blade  Flip has immense flavour for a card and makes a massive demon for you.

Stronghold Overseer I personally like because of shadow, and can even bubble you provided you have the mana avalible.

Easily doable with Oath of Lieges and Land Tax, good cards in white that don't die immediately.

Also, Edgewalker sadly doesn't make the apostles free, if you thought otherwise. Not bad in cleric tribal, but not here. Moar demons lol.

Also it's fine to run reanimation in case you opponents get wise of your shenanigans, like Living Death and Living End, both are horrifying if your graveyard is full.I would ask you to run Herald of Leshrac but he's not a demon, even though he totally should.

How's that?

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