Braids by user5963887

Format: Commander

Commander: Braids, Conjurer Adept

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-blue stompy strategy centered around Braids, Conjurer Adept, using her symmetrical upkeep trigger as a one-sided explosive engine. While Braids allows all players to drop artifacts, creatures, or lands for free, this deck breaks parity by loading over twenty devastating high-mana bombs including Eldrazi titans, Praetors, and massive artifact golems that outclass standard opposing drops. Early turns focus on deploying mana ramp like Sol Ring, Sapphire Medallion, or Arcane Signet to cast Braids on Turn 3 or 4. Once operational on Turn 5, Braids cheats cards like Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, Hullbreaker Horror, and It That Betrays to seize control of the board. The deck copies these threats using Rite of Replication, Auton Soldier, and Extravagant Replication, rapidly accumulating lethal combat damage to eliminate the table by Turn 8. Efficient spot removal and countermagic protect the engine and disrupt opposing threats.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arcanis the Omnipotent
  • 1 Archetype of Imagination
  • 1 Artisan of Kozilek
  • 1 Auton Soldier
  • 1 Braids, Conjurer Adept
  • 1 Caged Sun
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Clever Impersonator
  • 1 Control Magic
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Darksteel Colossus
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Extravagant Replication
  • 1 Fatespinner
  • 1 Followed Footsteps
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gauntlet of Power
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 God-Pharaoh's Statue
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Inkwell Leviathan
  • 36 Island
  • 1 It That Betrays
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mirrormade
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
  • 1 Nyx Lotus
  • 1 Paradox Haze
  • 1 Pathrazer of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Platinum Angel
  • 1 Platinum Emperion
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rush of Knowledge
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Shadow of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Stormtide Leviathan
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 The Immortal Sun
  • 1 The Magic Mirror
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tidal Force
  • 1 Triplicate Titan
  • 1 Ulamog's Crusher
  • 1 Ulamog's Dreadsire
  • 1 Unable to Scream
  • 1 Witness Protection