11 by user2133705

Format: Commander

Commander: Cecily, Haunted Mage

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Spellslinger Control strategy helmed by Cecily, Haunted Mage. It leverages an expanded hand size limit of eleven cards, steady card draw, and big mana sorceries to control the board and close out games. Acceleration from Storm-Kiln Artist, Goldspan Dragon, and Resonating Lute combines with rituals like Jeska's Will to cast overwhelming finishers such as Torment of Hailfire and Crackle with Power. The deck maintains strong reactive interaction via flexible countermagic and sweepers like Hostile Takeover and In Garruk's Wake. While reaching Cecily's eleven-card free-cast threshold is an occasional high-ceiling payoff, the deck functions reliably by playing a traditional draw-go and value control game plan, eventually converting mana advantages into lethal multi-target damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Bombardment
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Army of the Damned
  • 1 Baral's Expertise
  • 1 Blue Mage's Cane
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Caldera Pyremaw
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Cecily, Haunted Mage
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Coastal Peak
  • 1 Collision of Realms
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Cori Mountain Monastery
  • 1 Counterflux
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Ambition
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Double Vision
  • 1 Dreadbore
  • 1 Emberwilde Captain
  • 1 Emeritus of Conflict // Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Ferrous Lake
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Galazeth Prismari
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Hall of Oracles
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Harmonized Trio // Brainstorm
  • 1 Hostile Takeover
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Leyline of Transformation
  • 1 Library of Leng
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Melancholic Poet
  • 1 Metallurgic Summonings
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Oscorp Industries
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Queen Brahne
  • 1 Ral, Crackling Wit
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Replication Technique
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rocky Tar Pit
  • 1 Rousing Refrain
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Skycoach Waypoint
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spirit Water Revival
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sudden Spoiling
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 The Dawning Archaic
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Turbulent Springs
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Withering Curse
  • 1 Xander's Lounge
  • 1 Zaffai and the Tempests
  • 1 Zevlor, Elturel Exile