At a glance
- Format: Brawl (100-card)
- Commander: Bartolomé del Presidio
- Colors: White / Black (WB)
- Archetype: WB (Orzhov) Mobilize Aristocrats — go-wide attacks that flood tapped Warrior tokens, feed them to death-drain payoffs and sac outlets every combat, and grind the table out with incremental life swings.
- Power tier: competitive
- Competitive Brawl: ✅ Legal
Strategy
Attack to trigger Mobilize, flooding the board with 1/1 Warrior tokens that are auto-sacrificed at end of combat, then convert each death into life drain and card draw through stacked payoffs (Vengeful Bloodwitch, A-Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Bastion of Remembrance, Daxos, Arnyn). Bartolomé in the command zone is a free repeatable sac outlet, backed by Village Rites / Vampiric Rites / Corrupted Conviction to turn dying bodies into value on demand. Recursion (Bloodghast, Cult Conscript, Zombify, Cheerful Osteomancer) rebuys threats while edict removal clears blockers. Massacre Wurm and Vein Ripper close as drain finishers.
Upgrade path
NEW BUILD 2026-07-15 (wb-mobilize-aristocrats workflow). Verified clean — no changes required. Deck is almost entirely owned. Two non-owned rare crafts (Voice of Victory, Avenger of the Fallen) are the key Mobilize payoff upgrades and are both listed in approved_rares. Venerated Stormsinger is a non-owned UNCOMMON craft, correctly excluded from approved_rares. All owned rares/mythics (Midnight Reaper, Vein Ripper, Massacre Wurm, Solemn Simulacrum, Spellbook Vendor, Preacher of the Schism, Raven Eagle, Bloodghast, Scavenger’s Talent, Winnowing, Demon of Loathing, Transmogrant’s Crown, Tenacious Underdog, Postmortem Professor) need no listing. Upgrade path: after these two rares, next crafts would be Cruel Celebrant / Cabal-style drains if they enter the pool, then trim weaker 3-drop payoffs (Susurian Voidborn, Night Clubber) for a tighter curve.
Cards
Decklist
Paste straight into MTG Arena (or Moxfield/Archidekt):
Commander
1 Bartolomé del Presidio
Deck
1 Dalkovan Packbeasts
1 Dragonback Lancer
1 Waystone's Guidance
1 Voice of Victory
1 Avenger of the Fallen
1 Venerated Stormsinger
1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
1 A-Blood Artist
1 Zulaport Cutthroat
1 Bastion of Remembrance
1 Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
1 Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist
1 Etched Familiar
1 Midnight Reaper
1 Vein Ripper
1 Massacre Wurm
1 Mintstrosity
1 Callous Inspector
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Village Rites
1 Vampiric Rites
1 Corrupted Conviction
1 Eaten Alive
1 Vampire Gourmand
1 Worthy Cost
1 Infestation Sage
1 Resolute Reinforcements
1 Invasion Reinforcements
1 Pretending Poxbearers
1 Prideful Parent
1 Cat Collector
1 Spellbook Vendor
1 Preacher of the Schism
1 Zombify
1 Pull from the Grave
1 Cheerful Osteomancer
1 Bloodghast
1 Cult Conscript
1 Scavenger's Talent
1 Cornered by Black Mages
1 Social Snub
1 Tribute to Hunger
1 Sporogenic Infection
1 Gravelighter
1 Winnowing
1 Demon of Loathing
1 Scarblade's Malice
1 Rabid Attack
1 Curious Farm Animals
1 Transmogrant's Crown
1 Tenacious Underdog
1 Fiendish Panda
1 Outlaw Medic
1 Raven Eagle
1 Goldmeadow Nomad
1 Featherbrained Filcher
1 Undercity Dire Rat
1 Vanguard of the Rose
1 Zuko's Conviction
1 Unbury
1 Postmortem Professor
1 Buzzard-Wasp Colony
1 Ruinous Waterbending
1 Command Tower
1 Godless Shrine
1 Bleachbone Verge
1 Shattered Sanctum
9 Plains
23 Swamp
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