The Element Of Surprise by 1n1a6r

Format: Commander

Commander: Mass of Mysteries

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color Elemental tribal and landfall engine led by Mass of Mysteries. The primary strategy accelerates mana in the opening turns using efficient mana dorks and land ramp, establishes an impactful Elemental creature on turn 4, and deploys the commander on turn 5. At the beginning of combat, Mass of Mysteries gives an Elemental myriad, multiplying entering-the-battlefield and attack triggers across all opponents. Cards like Risen Reef, Omnath, Locus of Creation, and Mulldrifter produce massive card advantage and mana acceleration when copied in combat. Trigger duplicators like Yarok, the Desecrated, Roaming Throne, and Twinflame Travelers compound these effects, while Sundial of the Infinite can end the turn during the end-of-combat step to keep myriad tokens permanently. The deck finishes games on turn 7 by overwhelming the table with large Elemental swarms backed by Akroma's Will or Finale of Devastation.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Akroma's Will
• 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Bloodline Pretender
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Catharsis
• 1 Cavalier of Thorns
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Creeping Trailblazer
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Delighted Halfling
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Farewell
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Finale of Devastation
• 1 Flamekin Harbinger
• 1 Flamekin Village
• 8 Forest
• 1 Foundation Breaker
• 1 Frontier Bivouac
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Herald's Horn
• 1 Horde of Notions
• 1 Incandescent Soulstoke
• 1 Ingot Chewer
• 3 Island
• 1 Kindred Discovery
• 1 Kindred Dominance
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Leyline of the Guildpact
• 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
• 1 Maskwood Nexus
• 1 Mass of Mysteries
• 1 Mina and Denn, Wildborn
• 1 Morophon, the Boundless
• 2 Mountain
• 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
• 1 Mulldrifter
• 1 Mystic Monastery
• 1 Narset's Reversal
• 1 Omnath, Locus of All
• 1 Omnath, Locus of Creation
• 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
• 1 Omnath, Locus of the Roil
• 1 Omnath, Locus of the Void
• 1 Opulent Palace
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Plains
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Realmwalker
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Reflections of Littjara
• 1 Reveillark
• 1 Risen Reef
• 1 Roaming Throne
• 1 Rockfall Vale
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1 Secluded Courtyard
• 1 Seedborn Muse
• 1 Shriekmaw
• 1 Skyshroud Claim
• 1 Smokebraider
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soulbright Seeker
• 1 Splinter's Technique
• 1 Stormcarved Coast
• 1 Sundial of the Infinite
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Teferi's Protection
• 1 The World Tree
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Twinflame Travelers
• 1 Unclaimed Territory
• 1 Vanquisher's Banner
• 1 Wandering Fumarole
• 1 Yarok, the Desecrated
• 1 Yasharn, Implacable Earth
• 1 Yusri, Fortune's Flame