Massimo the Magician by JustJburd14

Format: Commander

Commander: Massimo, the Magician

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 52

Deck overview

This Jeskai deck uses Massimo, the Magician to turn combat damage into free spellcasting. Early turns establish cheap, unblockable creatures such as Slither Blade and fill the graveyard with efficient 1-mana instants and sorceries like Boltwave, Strike It Rich, and Ponder. Once Massimo enters the battlefield, he exiles these 1-drop spells to grant entering creatures combat-damage triggers that cast free copies of the exiled cards. The primary win condition leverages combat damage amplifiers and extra combat engines. Connecting with an imprinted Boltwave deals direct burn to every opponent simultaneously, which scales rapidly alongside double-strike enablers like Blade Historian or trigger doublers like Delney, Streetwise Lookout. Furthermore, Neheb, the Eternal turns aggregate opponent life loss into massive red mana during the postcombat main phase, feeding Aggravated Assault to establish infinite combat loops. Robust free counterspells, phase-out effects, and Grand Abolisher safeguard key execution windows.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Beamtown Beatstick
  • 1 Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot
  • 1 Blade Historian
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boltwave
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Caldera Pyremaw
  • 1 Cathartic Reunion
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Diamond Pick-Axe
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 End the Festivities
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Great Train Heist
  • 1 Hammer of Purphoros
  • 1 Helping Hand
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Light of Hope
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Massimo, the Magician
  • 1 Mercurial Spelldancer
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Monumental Henge
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Neheb, the Eternal
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reiterate
  • 1 Requisition Raid
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Samut, Hazoret's Champion
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Serum Visions
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorcerous Sight
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Strike It Rich
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tectonic Hazard
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Triton Shorestalker
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vapor Snag
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Wiccan, Young Avenger
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Wraith, Vicious Vigilante