The Cyber-Controller by Hammerhard

Format: Commander

Commander: The Cyber-Controller

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir artifact-centric swarm strategy powered by The Cyber-Controller. The primary game plan accelerates early mana through cost reducers such as Etherium Sculptor and Chief Engineer alongside big-mana enablers like Urza, Lord High Artificer, Karn, Legacy Reforged, and Forsaken Monument. Once established on Turn 4, the deck casts its commander for a large X value on Turn 5, milling opposing libraries and converting all revealed creature cards into face-down Cyberman artifact creatures with built-in anthem buffs. Synergies like Panharmonicon, Bruvac the Grandiloquent, and Virtue of Knowledge amplify this token output exponentially. To close the game, the deck leverages asymmetric board wipes such as Their Name Is Death and Desynchronization to clear blockers, while overrun effects like Cyberdrive Awakener, Cybermen Squadron, and Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge deliver decisive table-wide lethal damage across Turns 6 and 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Chief Engineer
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crystal Shard
  • 1 Cyber Conversion
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Cyberman Patrol
  • 1 Cybermen Squadron
  • 1 Cybership
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Death in Heaven
  • 1 Desynchronization
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drafna, Founder of Lat-Nam
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fading Hope
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Forsaken Monument
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Ixidor, Reality Sculptor
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Karn, Legacy Reforged
  • 1 Krark-Clan Ironworks
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Master Transmuter
  • 1 Mechanized Production
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mistvault Bridge
  • 1 Monumental Corruption
  • 1 Mycosynth Golem
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Phyrexian Scriptures
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Run Away Together
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Scientist Supreme of A.I.M.
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shuri, Wakandan Inventor
  • 1 Skorpekh Lord
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Terisiare's Devastation
  • 1 Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge
  • 1 The Cyber-Controller
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Their Name Is Death
  • 1 Thopter Spy Network
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thoughtcast
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Time Sieve
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unsummon
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions
  • 1 Watery Grave