smaug by susanoofr

Format: Commander

Commander: Massimo, the Magician

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a spellslinger-combat hybrid deck helmed by Massimo, the Magician. The core loop exiles a 1-mana instant or sorcery from the graveyard onto an evasive creature (or Massimo himself), then turns every hit from that creature into a free copy of the exiled spell. The deck supports this with a dense package of 30+ interchangeable 1-mana spells (cantrips, removal, burn), repeatable draw engines (Archmage Emeritus, Vega, the Watcher), and pinger payoff cards (Guttersnipe, Coruscation Mage, Fiery Inscription) that convert each spell cast into table-wide damage. Extra combat via Great Train Heist and trigger doublers like Delney, Streetwise Lookout and Wizard's Staff accelerate the clock. The deck lacks infinite combos and wins through incremental combat damage, copied burn, and pinger attrition.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Ancestral Vision
• 1 Archmage Emeritus
• 1 Avatar of Slaughter
• 1 Battlefield Forge
• 1 Battlefield Raptor
• 1 Blade Historian
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Burst Lightning
• 1 Clifftop Retreat
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consider
• 1 Coruscation Mage
• 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
• 1 Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration
• 1 Dragon's Rage Channeler
• 1 Elegant Parlor
• 1 Emeritus of Conflict // Lightning Bolt
• 1 Empty City Ruse
• 1 End the Festivities
• 1 Erode
• 1 Faerie Seer
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 False Peace
• 1 Fiery Inscription
• 1 Flame Slash
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Floodfarm Verge
• 1 Fragmentize
• 1 Galvanic Discharge
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Great Train Heist
• 1 Guttersnipe
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Harmonic Prodigy
• 1 Helping Hand
• 1 Honor
• 1 Inevitable Betrayal
• 1 Into the Flood Maw
• 1 Invisible Stalker
• 9 Island
• 1 Lay Down Arms
• 1 Light of Hope
• 1 Lightning Bolt
• 1 Massimo, the Magician
• 1 Mental Note
• 1 Mercurial Spelldancer
• 1 Meticulous Archive
• 1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
• 1 Monastery Mentor
• 1 Most Decrepit Old Bird // Speak Secrets
• 2 Mountain
• 1 Multiversal Passage
• 1 Mystic Monastery
• 1 Otherworldly Gaze
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Personal Tutor
• 1 Plains
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Portent
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Ral, Crackling Wit
• 1 Raphael, the Nightwatcher
• 1 Raugrin Triome
• 1 Requisition Raid
• 1 Sacred Foundry
• 1 Shoreline Looter
• 1 Silent Hallcreeper
• 1 Silverblade Paladin
• 1 Sleight of Hand
• 1 Slither Blade
• 1 Spectator Seating
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1 Strike It Rich
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sunbillow Verge
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Tectonic Hazard
• 1 Temple of Enlightenment
• 1 Temple of Epiphany
• 1 Thought Scour
• 1 Thundering Falls
• 1 Training Center
• 1 Twinning Staff
• 1 Vandalblast
• 1 Vega, the Watcher
• 1 Visions of Beyond
• 1 Vivi Ornitier
• 1 Wheel of Fate
• 1 Wizard's Staff