Golbez.2 by ohsirisot

Format: Commander

Commander: Golbez, Crystal Collector

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a blue-black artifact-density reanimator deck built to weaponize Golbez, Crystal Collector's end-step trigger. The plan is to flood the battlefield with cheap artifacts - mana rocks, artifact lands, Clues, Thopters, and Treasures - converting every artifact ETB into a surveil from the command zone, then dump enormous \*/\* creatures like Apocalypse Demon, Consuming Aberration, and Broodstar into the graveyard via draw-discard spells, Buried Alive/Unmarked Grave, or the self-mill bombs Traumatize and Cut Your Losses. Once the deck controls eight artifacts, Golbez's end step returns a creature card to hand and drains each opponent for its power - frequently a lethal one-shot. The deck also wins through evasive flying beatdown, an alternate "15 artifact cards in graveyard" kill on Mirrodin Besieged, and incidental milling pressure. It is a grindy, telegraphed value engine with a massive payoff turn, but it is extremely sensitive to graveyard hate and to the commander being answered.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Apocalypse Demon
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Broodstar
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Chrome Host Seedshark
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Collector's Vault
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cryogen Relic
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enhanced Surveillance
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Fanatical Offering
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Forensic Gadgeteer
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Giant's Amulet
  • 1 Golbez, Crystal Collector
  • 1 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Inspiring Statuary
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Leaden Myr
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Matoya, Archon Elder
  • 1 Mephitic Draught
  • 1 Mirrodin Besieged
  • 1 Mistvault Bridge
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mycosynth Wellspring
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Noble's Purse
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Power Depot
  • 1 Prismatic Lens
  • 1 Prized Statue
  • 1 Riddlesmith
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Scene of the Crime
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Silver Myr
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Star Compass
  • 1 Stern Lesson
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Terror Tide
  • 1 The Mechanist, Aerial Artisan
  • 1 Thirst for Discovery
  • 1 Thirst for Knowledge
  • 1 Thirst for Meaning
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thoughtcast
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Winged Boots