How To Play The Evereth, Viceroy Of Plunder Commander Deck In Magic: The Gathering

Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder is a commander featured in Magic: the Gathering’s Foundations Jumpstart set. While it’s a mono black card, it has a Rakdos (black/red) color identity, something that is very appreciated for the kind of sacrifice and Treasure-based deck it wants you to play.

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Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder is a unique sacrifice commander as you can opt to use Treasure tokens for either mana generation or to feed Evereth’s effect. If you like decks that have you sacrificing creatures for value or damage, then Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder is the perfect commander for you to play a different take on that strategy.

Decklist

The decklist consists of 33 creatures, four sorceries, six instants, 16 artifacts, six enchantments, and 34 lands. Most of the deck consists of cards that care about permanents being sacrificed, or are tools to create more creatures to sacrifice.

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Key Cards

Evereth, Viceroy Of Plunder

Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder is the commander of the deck and one that does a whole lot. You can give it +1/+1 counters by sacrificing a creature or an artifact​​​​​​. This is accomplished by the plethora of cards in the deck that create creatures every turn cycle to make sure you always have sacrifice fodder.

When it dies, Evereth can deal damage equal to its power to each opponent. With how quickly you can stack up +1/+1 counters on it, this can cause a massive outburst of burn damage, accompanied by dealing damage with flying to take your opponents out of the game quicker.

Pitiless Plunderer

With how much sacrifice you’ll be doing, Pitiless Plunderer is a great way to turn that into Treasure tokens. These tokens can be used to either cast other spells, or used to sacrifice Treasure tokens to Evereth’s effect. Both options are valid, and there are merits to post.

Pitiless Plunderer triggers whenever a creature you control dies. The circumstances of that death do not matter, so even if a creature dies in combat you’ll still get the Treasure token. However, you’ll primarily get the Treasure from sacrifice effects.

The Ozolith

The Ozolith is one of the most important cards in the deck, largely because of its interaction with Evereth itself. The Ozolith essentially stores +1/+1 counters on it when creatures with them die. At every combat, you have the option to put them all on a creature.

When you sacrifice Evereth, it deals damage equal to its power and can gain a ton of +1/+1 counters. When you re-cast Evereth, you can put the old counters back on it thanks to The Ozolith. This lets you essentially double up on your damage, and is the quickest way to burn all your opponents out of the game.

Black Market Connections

Black Market Connections is the most useful enchantment in the deck as it can generate both a Treasure token and a creature token. This gives you two things you can potentially sacrifice with Evereth’s ability.

Even if you don’t use the tokens from Black Market Connections for Evereth’s ability, the card is useful on its own. The Treasures can be used to cast spells, and the card draw gets you to your key cards quicker.

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How To Play The Deck

An Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder Commander deck is all about generating permanents to sacrifice for Evereth’s effect, and then using her as your primary source of damage. Evereth can do a ton of damage before dying thanks to having flying, so you want to attack evenly before sacrificing Evereth itself to deal burn damage to all your opponents.

There are a ton of ways to create tokens to sacrifice each turn. Urabrask’s Forge and Lagomos, Hand of Hatred both make a token that dies at the end step, so you may as well sacrifice them to Evereth. More permanent token generators include Bitterblossom, Black Market Connections, Ophiomancer, and Loyal Apprentice.

Cards that give extra +1/+1 counters to Evereth are important as they help to close the gap needed to burn everyone with one effect trigger quicker. Blade of the Bloodchief gives Evereth two counters when a creature dies since it’s a Vampire, and Tarrian’s Soulcleaver gives a +1/+1 counter whenever a creature or artifact goes to the graveyard. Treasure tokens being sacrificed count as an artifact going to the graveyard, so if you sacrificed it with Evereth, you get two +1/+1 counters for the price of one.

The primary win condition of the deck is a mixture of burn and combat damage. Since Evereth has flying, unless your opponent has creatures that also have flying (or reach), you can get in for some guaranteed damage. Once everyone is low enough, you can set up a situation where Evereth will die and burn everyone for whatever her power is. You do not want to have Evereth die unless you can take someone out of the game, or cause a hindrance on their gameplan.

The biggest downside of the deck is reliance on Evereth. While the deck can function without it on the battlefield, if you want to close out games quickly, you’ll want Evereth on the battlefield as soon as possible. Luckily, it has a low casting cost, something the entire deck has with only a few spells costing over three mana. This lets you get set up quickly and start going through with your gameplan before your opponents can stabilize.

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