The Nine by Angel_Of_Blood

Format: Commander

Commander: Lord of the Nazgûl

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 23

Deck overview

This deck leverages Lord of the Nazgûl as both an army-in-a-can engine and a sudden overrun win condition. By casting cheap instants and sorceries, the deck produces an evasive army of 3/3 black Wraith tokens with menace. Low-cost changelings like Changeling Outcast and Mothdust Changeling pad the creature count, helping reach the commander's nine-Wraith threshold to turn the entire board into lethal 9/9 attackers. Backed by classic Dimir cantrips, tutors, and modular spellslinger payoffs such as Talrand, Sky Summoner and Sedgemoor Witch, the deck maintains board presence even when the commander is contested. While its acceleration is relatively slow due to a low count of early mana rocks, the deck compensates with explosive mid-game token turns, potent mass bounce in Cyclonic Rift, and sustained value engines like Archmage Emeritus and Kindred Discovery.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adaptive Automaton
  • 1 Arcane Melee
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Bog Tatters
  • 1 Bog Wraith
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cairn Wanderer
  • 1 Call to Mind
  • 1 Canoptek Wraith
  • 1 Careful Study
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deekah, Fractal Theorist
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dire Undercurrents
  • 1 Dirtwater Wraith
  • 1 Distortion Strike
  • 1 Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Filter Out
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 20 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Metallurgic Summonings
  • 1 Mnemonic Betrayal
  • 1 Moonglove Changeling
  • 1 Mothdust Changeling
  • 1 Murmuring Mystic
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Odylic Wraith
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Radical Idea
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rise from the Tides
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 See Double
  • 1 Serum Visions
  • 1 Shark Typhoon
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Skeletal Changeling
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Street Wraith
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swarm Intelligence
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of Once and Future
  • 1 Tainted Strike
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Venomous Changeling
  • 1 Watery Grave