1000r by Tumulonembo

Format: Commander

Commander: Lord Xander, the Collector

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This Grixis deck operates as a dedicated mill and graveyard control strategy helmed by Lord Xander, the Collector. During early turns, the deck establishes rapid mana velocity using efficient two-mana rocks and medallions, smoothly fixing its mana base. In the mid-game, it deploys incremental mill engines like Mesmeric Orb, Ruin Crab, and Court of Cunning alongside proactive disruption from Ashiok, Dream Render. The deck transitions into lethal threats on Turn 6 through diverse redundant win conditions: executing the infinite life-drain loop of Duskmantle Guildmage and Mindcrank, casting Bruvac the Grandiloquent paired with half-library mill spells like kicked Maddening Cacophony to instantly empty libraries, or reanimating entire graveyards with Breach the Multiverse and Rise of the Dark Realms. Lord Xander serves as a punishing top-end attrition piece that decimates opposing hands and boards, ensuring inevitable victory across multiple strategic axes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Cormela, Glamour Thief
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jace, the Perfected Mind
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Keening Stone
  • 1 Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
  • 1 Lord Xander, the Collector
  • 1 Lotus Field
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mind Funeral
  • 1 Mind Grind
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nemesis of Reason
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terisian Mindbreaker
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Thundering Falls
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Undead Alchemist
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Xander's Lounge
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer