cheating child by Orktaku

Format: Commander

Commander: Aminatou, Veil Piercer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Esper enchantment deck, helmed by Aminatou, Veil Piercer, is a value-oriented build that leverages her upkeep surveil and the miracle cost reduction on enchantment cards to cheat on mana. The strategy revolves around casting enchantments that trigger constellation, eerie, and other ETB effects, generating card advantage, token armies, and recursion loops. The deck wins through combat with flying tokens (Sigil of the Empty Throne, Archon of Sun's Grace, Ghostly Dancers) or by turning enchantments into creatures via Starfield of Nyx or Zur, Eternal Schemer. It includes a single extra-turn spell (Temporal Mastery) and several mass recursion effects (Redress Fate, Starfield of Nyx). The deck is resilient but slow, lacking fast combo lines.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alela, Artful Provocateur
  • 1 Aminatou's Augury
  • 1 Aminatou, Veil Piercer
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archetype of Imagination
  • 1 Archon of Sun's Grace
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Athreos, Shroud-Veiled
  • 1 Auramancer
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Cacophony Unleashed
  • 1 Callaphe, Beloved of the Sea
  • 1 Castle Vantress
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copy Enchantment
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Diabolic Vision
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Entity Tracker
  • 1 Entreat the Angels
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extravagant Replication
  • 1 Fear of Sleep Paralysis
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Ghostly Dancers
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grave Betrayal
  • 1 Halimar Depths
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse
  • 1 Hindering Light
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Inquisitive Glimmer
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Matoya, Archon Elder
  • 1 Mesa Enchantress
  • 1 Mirrormade
  • 1 Moon-Blessed Cleric
  • 1 Obscura Storefront
  • 1 Omen of the Sea
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Ondu Spiritdancer
  • 1 One with the Multiverse
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Otherworldly Gaze
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Redress Fate
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Secret Arcade // Dusty Parlor
  • 1 Shadow of the Second Sun
  • 1 Shark Typhoon
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sigil of the Empty Throne
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Soaring Lightbringer
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphere of Safety
  • 1 Spirit-Sister's Call
  • 1 Starfield Mystic
  • 1 Starfield of Nyx
  • 1 Starnheim Courser
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Telling Time
  • 1 Temporal Mastery
  • 1 The Watcher's Warning
  • 1 Time Wipe
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Utter End
  • 1 Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Zur, Eternal Schemer