Council of four by ericod

Format: Commander

Commander: The Council of Four

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is an Azorius control strategy led by The Council of Four. It turns the inherent multiplayer nature of Commander into an advantage by triggering extra card draws and 2/2 Knight creature tokens whenever opponents cast multiple spells or draw extra cards. The deck deploys early defensive pieces and card engines such as Esper Sentinel, Faerie Mastermind, and Rhystic Study to keep hand sizes full while answering critical opposing threats with free and efficient counterspells like Force of Will and Fierce Guardianship. As the game progresses, it converts massive card advantage and treasure generation from Smothering Tithe into lethal airborne armies via Luminarch Ascension, Dream Trawler, and Shabraz, the Skyshark. An overloaded Cyclonic Rift clears opposing defenses to secure combat victory across two turn cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azorius Charm
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Condescend
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cryptic Command
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dream Trawler
  • 1 Elspeth Resplendent
  • 1 Empyrean Eagle
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Force Spike
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gilded Drake
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Greater Auramancy
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Haytham Kenway
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Hindering Light
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 1 Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
  • 1 Judge's Familiar
  • 1 Kitnap
  • 1 Long River's Pull
  • 1 Luminarch Ascension
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meddling Mage
  • 1 Medomai the Ageless
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Monumental Henge
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nimbus Maze
  • 1 No More Lies
  • 1 North Pole Gates
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Prince Imrahil the Fair
  • 1 Proft's Eidetic Memory
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reflector Mage
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scheming Fence
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shabraz, the Skyshark
  • 1 Skycat Sovereign
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 The Council of Four
  • 1 The Mightstone and Weakstone
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Urza, Lord Protector
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Wash Away
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wizard Class