New Untitled Deck by user2872759

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ancient One

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

The Ancient One leads a Dimir self-mill deck that wins by weaponizing its own graveyard and the opponents'. The plan is to dump 20+ cards into the graveyard in the first few turns via Stitcher's Supplier, Mesmeric Orb, Ripples of Undeath, Doom Whisperer, and the surveil spells, unlocking the commander's descend 8 attack clause and turning the yard into a toolbox. From there the deck runs three overlapping clocks: an 8/8 Ancient One backed by cheap delve threats (Gurmag Angler, Tombstalker) and reanimated monsters; Syr Konrad, the Grim converting every creature card that enters any graveyard into table-wide drain; and direct opponent-mill from Altar of Dementia, Consuming Aberration, and the commander's loot-mill ability. A full reanimation suite - Animate Dead, Necromancy, Victimize, and Living Death - supplies both the board and the rebuild. This is a mid-speed grinder, not a fast combo deck.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Billowing Shriekmass
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Careful Study
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Cephalid Inkmage
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crow of Dark Tidings
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreadwing Scavenger
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eerie Soultender
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Forbidden Alchemy
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gravebreaker Lamia
  • 1 Gurmag Angler
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jace's Archivist
  • 1 Kiora, the Rising Tide
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Likeness Looter
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Forsaken
  • 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mire Triton
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Otherworldly Gaze
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Overwhelmed Apprentice
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Souls of the Lost
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 Thirst for Discovery
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tolarian Terror
  • 1 Tombstalker
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wight of Precinct Six
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wonder