The Master of Keys by chickenpie393

Format: Commander

Commander: The Master of Keys

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

The Master of Keys is a recursive enchantment engine: each cast mills X cards, then every enchantment in the graveyard gains escape, letting the deck re-cast Auras, tax pieces, and Rooms. Zur the Enchanter acts as a hidden commander, fetching Necropotence, Ripples of Undeath, or Animate Dead on attack. The primary finish is a compact Laboratory Maniac + Demonic Consultation/Doomsday kill, protected by free counterspells and Teferi, Time Raveler. A slower secondary plan uses Abdel Adrian reanimation loops to build an exponential soldier army, while Ondu Spiritdancer plus Secret Arcade//Dusty Parlor can turn the whole board into enchantment tokens. With 38 lands and a low average mana value, the deck uses its many cantrips to assemble the two-card combo by turn five.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Avatar's Wrath
  • 1 Balemurk Leech
  • 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Doomsday
  • 1 Dress Down
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gush
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mindwrack Harpy
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nightmare Shepherd
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Ondu Spiritdancer
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Scrabbling Skullcrab
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Secret Arcade // Dusty Parlor
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sinister Concoction
  • 1 Skullsnap Nuisance
  • 1 Sleight of Hand
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphere of Safety
  • 1 Stillness in Motion
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 The Master of Keys
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Tale of Tamiyo
  • 1 Tolarian Winds
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Utter End
  • 1 Valgavoth's Lair
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Zur the Enchanter