Borrowed Monsters

Format: Commander

Commander: Dack Fayden, Helping Hand

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This mono-white deck turns the commander into a game-accelerating threat engine using Dack Fayden, Helping Hand. Rather than hardcasting expensive bombs, the strategy accelerates to six mana by Turn 5 to cast Dack, cheating three massive creatures directly from the library onto the battlefield under opponents' control. Because Dack goads these creatures for the rest of the game, opponents are forced to attack each other with high-power threats, rapidly eroding each other's life totals while leaving you safe from combat. Meanwhile, the deck sets up Homeward Path or owner-targeting flicker spells like Flicker and Flicker of Fate to regain control of those giant beaters whenever necessary. Backed by efficient white exile removal, card-draw engines like Trouble in Pairs and The One Ring, and defensive spells like Teferi's Protection, the deck lets opponents soften each other up before reclaiming its army to close out the final 1v1 duel.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Airbender Ascension
  • 1 Akroma's Memorial
  • 1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
  • 1 Angel of Serenity
  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Beza, the Bounding Spring
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Brought Back
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Charming Prince
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Dack Fayden, Helping Hand
  • 1 Darksteel Colossus
  • 1 Daydream
  • 1 Delivery Moogle
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Duelist's Heritage
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Emeria, the Sky Ruin
  • 1 Emrakul, the Exigent Doom
  • 1 Endless Atlas
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Flicker
  • 1 Flicker of Fate
  • 1 Flickerwisp
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 H.E.R.B.I.E. Scout Unit
  • 1 Homeward Path
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Long Road Home
  • 1 Luminate Primordial
  • 1 Meteor Golem
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Myr Battlesphere
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Northampton Farm
  • 1 Otherworldly Journey
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 28 Plains
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Restoration Angel
  • 1 Sandstone Oracle
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitude
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 The Eternal Wanderer
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Tome of Legends
  • 1 Touch the Spirit Realm
  • 1 Tri-Sentinel, Act of Vengeance
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Winds of Abandon
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 Zetalpa, Primal Dawn