Grand Arbiter Budget Mill by Buddadragon

Format: Commander

Commander: Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck is a specialized Azorius Mill strategy that utilizes Grand Arbiter Augustin IV as a tax-based engine to facilitate a "hidden" tribal theme: Persistent Petitioners. The primary game plan is to establish a stax-lite board state using the Commander s cost reduction and tax effects, alongside defensive enchantments like Propaganda and Ghostly Prison. This creates a window to deploy a critical mass of Petitioners at a reduced cost. The deck wins by repeatedly activating the Petitioners' collective ability to mill opponents for 12 cards at a time, accelerated by the Commander's cost reduction. While it lacks traditional infinite combos, it achieves inevitability through mass-reanimation spells like Rally the Ancestors and Raise the Past, which can return a graveyard full of Petitioners for a surprise lethal mill activation. The strategy is linear but benefits from the inherent synergy between the Commander s "Advisor" cost reduction and the Petitioners' "Advisor" creature type.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Disenchant
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Frozen Aether
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 29 Persistent Petitioners
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prismatic Lens
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raise the Past
  • 1 Rally the Ancestors
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Time Wipe
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble