Spells and Cantrips and Wraiths, Oh My! by Thunderthruster

Format: Commander

Commander: Lord of the Nazgûl

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Lord of the Nazgul leads a spellslinger Wraith tribal deck that wins through combat. You cast cheap instants and sorceries to create 3/3 menace Wraiths, then grow them to 9/9 when you control nine or more. Talrand, Sky Summoner acts as a hidden commander, doubling token output with Drakes, while Octavia, Archmage Emeritus and Archmage of Runes turn spells into cards and cost reduction. The deck controls the table with eight counterspells and extensive instant-speed removal, then assembles a wide, evasive board for sequential alpha strikes. No infinite combo is present; victory requires protecting the board and chaining spells.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alloy Myr
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Birthday Escape
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Glorious Gale
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Leaden Myr
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Octavia, Living Thesis
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Peek
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Serum Visions
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Silver Myr
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothing of Sméagol
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unsummon
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Withering Torment