Noctis: The True March of Machines by Mehobold

Format: Commander

Commander: Noctis, Prince of Lucis

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper artifact midrange strategy led by Noctis, Prince of Lucis. The primary plan uses Noctis to cast artifact spells directly from the graveyard by paying 3 life. Counter removers such as Soul Diviner, Power Conduit, and O'aka, Traveling Merchant remove finality counters from these recurring permanents, enabling continuous sacrifice and recursion loops without losing cards to exile. Early turns focus on accelerating mana through low-cost mana rocks and cost reducers like Etherium Sculptor. By Turn 4, the deck establishes an active engine, stocking the graveyard using Buried Alive and Fact or Fiction. On Turn 5, it deploys threatening board presence with token producers like Urza, Chief Artificer and Sai, Master Thopterist or assembles Krark-Clan Ironworks. The deck finishes the game on Turn 6 by casting Akroma's Will for a lethal combat swing across all opponents, shielded by efficient counterspells.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 Akroma's Will
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Sanctum
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Azorius Chancery
• 1 Baleful Strix
• 1 Bronze Guardian
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Castle Doom
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Contaminated Landscape
• 1 Culling the Weak
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deserted Beach
• 1 Digsite Engineer
• 1 Dimir Aqueduct
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
• 1 Etherium Sculptor
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fabricate
• 1 Fact or Fiction
• 1 Fain, the Broker
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Foundry Inspector
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Golbez, Crystal Collector
• 1 Haliya, Guided by Light
• 1 Imotekh the Stormlord
• 1 Insight Engine
• 1 Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade
• 3 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Kappa Cannoneer
• 1 Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1 Master of Etherium
• 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
• 1 Mirran Spy
• 1 Mirrodin Besieged
• 1 Myr Retriever
• 1 Mystic Gate
• 1 Nesting Grounds
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Noctis, Prince of Lucis
• 1 O'aka, Traveling Merchant
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Permission Denied
• 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
• 2 Plains
• 1 Power Conduit
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
• 1 Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
• 1 Scrap Trawler
• 1 Sculpting Steel
• 1 Seat of the Synod
• 1 Semblance Anvil
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Shorikai, Genesis Engine
• 1 Shuri, Wakandan Inventor
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul Diviner
• 1 Spire of Industry
• 1 Split Up
• 1 Stridehangar Automaton
• 1 Stubborn Denial
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Sunken Ruins
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Thirst for Knowledge
• 1 Thought Monitor
• 1 Thran Dynamo
• 1 Turbulent Shore
• 1 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence
• 1 Unctus, Grand Metatect
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Unmarked Grave
• 1 Urza, Chief Artificer
• 1 Uthros Research Craft
• 1 Vedalken Archmage
• 1 Warren Soultrader