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Shilgengar, Sire of Famine
Legendary Creature — Elder Demon · {3}{B}{B} · Black/White commander
Flying
Sacrifice another creature: Create a Blood token. If you sacrificed an Angel this way, create a number of Blood tokens equal to its toughness instead.
{W/B}{W/B}{W/B}, Sacrifice six Blood tokens: Return each creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Those creatures are Vampires in addition to their other types.
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What Shilgengar, Sire of Famine actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Activated abilitySacrifice another creature: Create a Blood token. If you sacrificed an Angel this way, create a number of Blood tokens equal to its toughness instead.
- Activated ability{W/B}{W/B}{W/B}, Sacrifice six Blood tokens: Return each creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. Those creatures are Vampires in addition to their other typ
- Keyword · flyingflying
What a Shilgengar, Sire of Famine deck needs
Plays as aristocrats. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- expendable creatures and tokens to sacrifice (the commander is a sacrifice outlet)
- artifact and Treasure payoffs (it makes Treasures, Clues or Food on repeat)
- bodies worth turning into Vampires — the commander grants the type itself, so a printed vampire package is optional, not the plan
- self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
The Shilgengar, Sire of Famine deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 8× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- 21× Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- 12× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Shilgengar, Sire of Famine
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- Akroma's Will4 mana
- Glaring Spotlight1 mana
- Cultist of the Absolute1 mana
- Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
- The Wind Crystal4 mana
- Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
- Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
- Predators' Hour2 mana
Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- Nurgle's Rot1 mana
- Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization6 mana
- Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead5 mana
- Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
- Hildibrand Manderville // Gentleman's Rise2 mana
- Edgar, Charmed Groom // Edgar Markov's Coffin4 mana
- Exquisite Huntmaster4 mana
- Grixis Slavedriver6 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
- Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
- Ripples of Undeath2 mana
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
- Tomb Fortress0 mana
- Millikin2 mana
- Perpetual Timepiece2 mana
- Syr Konrad, the Grim5 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Entomb1 mana
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Damn2 mana
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Kaya's Wrath4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Chaplain of Alms // Chapel Shieldgeist1 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Orzhov Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
Combos with Shilgengar, Sire of Famine
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Shilgengar, Sire of Famine is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Shilgengar, Sire of Famine + Solemnity4,731 decks
- Shilgengar, Sire of Famine + Solemnity + Phyrexian Altar536 decks
- Shilgengar, Sire of Famine + Bishop Of Wings + Divine Visitation535 decks
- Shilgengar, Sire of Famine + Luminous Broodmoth523 decks
- Shilgengar, Sire of Famine + Mikaeus, The Unhallowed518 decks
- Shilgengar, Sire of Famine + Stridehangar Automaton505 decks
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