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 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 Zuko's Conviction
1 Unbury
1 Postmortem Professor
1 Ruinous Waterbending
1 Command Tower
1 Godless Shrine
1 Bleachbone Verge
1 Shattered Sanctum
9 Plains
24 Swamp
1 Vraan, Executioner Thane
1 Nightblade Brigade
Ideal build (upgrade target)
Ideal upgrades the owned build into a premium Orzhov Mobilize aristocrats engine: keeps the Mobilize enablers (Voice of Victory, Avenger of the Fallen, Dalkovan Packbeasts) and Waystone’s Guidance, then stacks the best legal death-drain payoffs the current list lacks (Cruel Celebrant, Corpse Knight, Elas il-Kor, Marauding Blight-Priest, Vito, Vraan, Bloodletter of Aclazotz) so every wave of tapped Warriors dying at end of combat is a life-swing. Adds true free sac outlets (Woe Strider, Priest of Forgotten Gods, Ashnod’s Altar) to back up Bartolome, premium spot removal and edicts (Swords to Plowshares, Anguished Unmaking, Sheoldred’s Edict, Toxic Deluge), and a fully untapped WB dual manabase. Top craft priorities: Bloodletter of Aclazotz (doubles all drain), Vito plus the drain suite, Corpse Knight, Cruel Celebrant, and the untapped duals (Godless Shrine, Caves of Koilos, Bleachbone Verge).
Crafts to reach the ideal: 22 (2 mythic, 13 rare, 4 uncommon, 3 other)
- Mythic: Grave Pact, Twilight Prophet
- Rare: Ashnod’s Altar, Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway, Caves of Koilos, Concealed Courtyard, Dictate of Erebos, Isolated Chapel, Ophiomancer, Priest of Forgotten Gods, Reckoner Bankbuster, Secure the Wastes, Silent Clearing, Toxic Deluge, Woe Strider
- Uncommon: Corpse Knight, Cruel Celebrant, Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim, Pitiless Plunderer
- Other: Damn, Orzhov Signet, Talisman of Hierarchy
Full ideal list (paste into Arena):
Commander
1 Bartolomé del Presidio
Deck
1 Voice of Victory
1 Avenger of the Fallen
1 Dalkovan Packbeasts
1 Dragonback Lancer
1 Venerated Stormsinger
1 Nightblade Brigade
1 Waystone's Guidance
1 Secure the Wastes
1 Resolute Reinforcements
1 Invasion Reinforcements
1 A-Blood Artist
1 Cruel Celebrant
1 Zulaport Cutthroat
1 Bastion of Remembrance
1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
1 Corpse Knight
1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
1 Marauding Blight-Priest
1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
1 Vraan, Executioner Thane
1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
1 Twilight Prophet
1 High-Society Hunter
1 Preacher of the Schism
1 Midnight Reaper
1 Morbid Opportunist
1 Phyrexian Arena
1 Deadly Dispute
1 Village Rites
1 Vampiric Rites
1 Pitiless Plunderer
1 Woe Strider
1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
1 Ashnod's Altar
1 Bloodghast
1 Cult Conscript
1 Tenacious Underdog
1 Reassembling Skeleton
1 Cheerful Osteomancer
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Anguished Unmaking
1 Mortify
1 Bitter Triumph
1 Hero's Downfall
1 Damn
1 Tribute to Hunger
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Massacre Wurm
1 Vein Ripper
1 Grave Pact
1 Dictate of Erebos
1 Ophiomancer
1 Inspiring Overseer
1 Reckoner Bankbuster
1 Xathrid Necromancer
1 Corrupted Conviction
1 Sheoldred's Edict
1 Etched Familiar
1 Arcane Signet
1 Orzhov Signet
1 Talisman of Hierarchy
1 Mind Stone
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Command Tower
1 Godless Shrine
1 Caves of Koilos
1 Bleachbone Verge
1 Concealed Courtyard
1 Brightclimb Pathway
1 Isolated Chapel
1 Shattered Sanctum
1 Silent Clearing
1 Starting Town
17 Swamp
9 Plains
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