Emperor King Master's Master Deck by user9080743

Format: Commander

Commander: The Master, Transcendent

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai reanimator strategy centered on The Master, Transcendent. It leverages self-mill, opponent mill, and fallout rad counters to turn graveyards into accessible creature pools. The early game focuses on deploying two-mana ramp and establishing mill engines like Hedron Crab, Mesmeric Orb, and Altar of the Brood. Once the commander enters on Turn 3 or 4, it taps to steal the best milled creature from any graveyard as a 3/3 Mutant. The mid game accelerates board development using untap synergies such as Intruder Alarm, Murkfiend Liege, and Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler to trigger multiple reanimations per turn cycle. To close the game around Turn 6 or 7, the deck pivots into mass reanimation via Living Death or lethal table-wide life drain through Syr Konrad, the Grim and Dreadhound. While vulnerable to instant-speed graveyard exile, the deck possesses resilient redundancy and potent resource velocity.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Alpha Deathclaw
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Biosynthic Burst
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deranged Assistant
  • 1 Drag to the Roots
  • 1 Dreadhound
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Grave-Troll
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Gyruda, Doom of Depths
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Intruder Alarm
  • 1 Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mariposa Military Base
  • 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mirelurk Queen
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Murkfiend Liege
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nyx Weaver
  • 1 Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Raul, Trouble Shooter
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squirming Emergence
  • 1 Stillness in Motion
  • 1 Sting, the Glinting Dagger
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Everflowing Well // The Myriad Pools
  • 1 The Master, Transcendent
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 The Wise Mothman
  • 1 Tribute Mage
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unseal the Necropolis
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Winds of Rebuke
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast