funny business by user4310642

Format: Commander

Commander: The Madcap Jester

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Impulse Theft strategy led by The Madcap Jester, designed to weaponize opponents' libraries against them. The game plan focuses on deploying efficient mana rocks and equipment on the early turns, establishing The Madcap Jester by Turn 3 or 4, and attacking to exile top cards from each opponent. Because the commander allows you to play any card exiled from an opponent's library with universal mana fixing until the end of your next turn, every swing generates a massive three-card advantage. Midgame payoffs such as Passionate Archaeologist, Brainstealer Dragon, and Nalfeshnee convert stolen spells into overwhelming damage, life drain, and token armies. The deck backs up this engine with cheap stack interaction like Swan Song and Mindbreak Trap, alongside surgical extraction tools like Sadistic Sacrament to eliminate opposing win conditions before they can resolve.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Bitter Ordeal
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crosis's Catacombs
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Crumbling Sanctuary
  • 1 Crypt of the Eternals
  • 1 Cunning Rhetoric
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Don Andres, the Renegade
  • 1 Doomsday Excruciator
  • 1 Dragon's Smile
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Ensnared by the Mara
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extract
  • 1 Fishing Gear
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Fortune Teller's Talent
  • 1 Grand Coliseum
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Inside Information
  • 1 Invert Polarity
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jester's Cap
  • 1 Jester's Scepter
  • 1 Laughing Jasper Flint
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Memory Vessel
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Nalfeshnee
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Oblivion Sower
  • 1 Oscorp Industries
  • 1 Outrageous Robbery
  • 1 Party Thrasher
  • 1 Passionate Archaeologist
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Plargg and Nassari
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Psychic Surgery
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sadistic Sacrament
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Sire of Stagnation
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Staff of Eden, Vault's Key
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The Madcap Jester
  • 1 Turbulent Crater
  • 1 Turbulent Wetlands
  • 1 Uba Mask
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Wand of Wonder
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wild-Magic Sorcerer
  • 1 Winged Boots
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Xander's Lounge
  • 1 You Find Some Prisoners