Sheoldred, Whispering One

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (51)

Chuubii on

3 months ago

Your deck has a really low amount of lands. According to professional MTG player and doctor of mathematics Frank Karsten's formula, this deck should have around 40.7 lands. Even if you don't want to go that high, I'd recommend at least 38 because it seems very unlikely that you'll be able to reliably cast cards like Army of the Damned or Sheoldred, Whispering One with only 35 lands.

Here is Karsten's formula

Herald's Horn might seem cool, but it only works with 21 cards in your deck. So it won't help you cast 66% of your deck (including zombies that cost {B}{B})

Good luck!

Crow_Umbra on Thought I Was Dead? [Primer]

4 months ago

Thanks Sungod, I could see the need for another Gary-esque effect. I have Marionette Apprentice as a potential addition, also since I have Treasures as a slight support theme. In that vein, Whip of Erebos could be cool with some of the different pingers in the 99.

I've also been considering adding Sheoldred, Whispering One as a swap with one of my 5 or 6 drops. I could see Whip of Erebos being a potential swap with The Ozolith.

legendofa on What Commander/cards Should I Use?

8 months ago

To make sure I understand what you're looking for, it's sort of a reanimator/sacrifice hybrid? Discard big creatures, bring them back, and then sacrifice them again so they can be reanimated again?

There aren't too many cards that let you repeatedly bring big creatures from the graveyard to the battlefield, and Sheoldred, Whispering One is one of the best. If you haven't looked in this direction already, I suggest filling out your deck with smaller, self-recursive creatures like Reassembling Skeleton, Gravecrawler, Bloodghast, Forsaken Miner, Bloodsoaked Champion, or Nether Traitor.

Some other possible commanders are Whisper, Blood Liturgist (if you can protect her for a turn), Drana, the Last Bloodchief (reanimates nonlegendaries only), and Moira, Urborg Haunt (good for immediate sac + reanimate). I would use the commander slot for the big reanimator effect so you can access it reliably.

Kevin_illsbane on What Commander/cards Should I Use?

8 months ago

I want to make a mono-black deck based on rotating cards from my hand, to the graveyard/exile, and then to the battle field. To play larger creatures early, and taking advantage of other card effects for extra bonus. Basically constantly switching cards in and out of battle.

For example: I was thinking of using Sheoldred, Whispering One as Commander, in conjunction with Syr Konrad, the Grim So I could have a card in the graveyard, play it with Sheoldred's ability and have Syr Konrad trigger with whatever that card was. If there's a better Commander to use please let me know.

I'm currently using EDHREC to find cards but I'm struggling to make a proper deck that I like.

RiotRunner789 on

9 months ago

I think ot looks good but will leave you with three creature suggestions.

Scion of Darkness: Can put himself in the yard to be reanimated then begins reanimating once he's out

Sheoldred, Whispering One: Seen this card, more than once, get pitched turn 1 and reanimated turn 2. Still great later in the game.

Guiltfeeder: Late game, after a board wipe or two graveyards will be getting big. Granted, he's best going under Ensnaring Bridge but can be a solid closer when other boards build back blockers.

RockIV on monoblack commander building help!

9 months ago

hi everyone im building a monoblack commander deck, and im a little lost on how to make it functional.

Rocks monoblack commander

this is my deck, i tried to get the best monoblack cards that i have. but i feel the deck is not well builded.

i have some good cards that i didnt add. I have some reanimator deck posibilities , but i dont know if adding them would be a good move. Animate Dead, Buried Alive, Entomb, Exhume, Griselbrand, Reanimate, Sheoldred, Whispering One, Entomb

i have other options that i dindt choose i have some zombie lord type cards, but i feel i dont have that many zombies to make them functional.

what do you guys think? should i add the reanimator type cards?, or maybe take out some removal for other cards, what changes would you guys do to this commander?

ty for reading

DemonDragonJ on Waste Not

9 months ago

I have replaced Fungal Shambler and Kheru Lich Lord with Indulgent Tormentor and Sheoldred, Whispering One, which reduced the average converted mana cost of this deck from 3.73 to 3.71, which is very nice, since the newer cards better fit the theme of this deck.

legendofa on Should I Keep Fungal Shambler …

10 months ago

As a 4/4 for 6 mana across three colors, Kheru Lich Lord needs a strong ability to justify its cost, and I don't believe it has one. It costs three additional mana to have any more utility than a vanilla creature, and the randomness and lack of repeatability make it very unreliable. It also directly competes with The Mineoplasm. Fungal Shambler is better, and probably close to on par with Indulgent Tormentor and Demon of Loathing. Sheoldred, Whispering One is by far the best option of what's listed. There's some tension with the commander, but it's mild and temporary, and I think the battlefield control more than makes up for it.