Back In The Day by PsymonTheZelot

Format: Commander

Commander: Arzakon

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a classic Domain-planeswalker deck built around Arzakon as a five-color value engine. The primary game plan is to establish all five basic land types, deploy the Invasion-block Dragon legends (Crosis, the Purger, Darigaaz, the Igniter, Dromar, the Banisher, Rith, the Awakener, Treva, the Renewer) and the kicker-cycle Volvers and Battlemages, then grind advantage through Arzakon's Black Lotus token generation and wheel ultimate. The deck's fastest explicit win condition is Coalition Victory, which ends the game immediately when you control a land of each basic type and a creature of each color. Combat damage from the flying Dragons and pump from Mirari's Wake and Fires of Yavimaya provides a secondary path. The mana base is slow-many taplands and Lair lands-and the deck leans heavily on domain-reliant spells for card selection and disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Allied Strategies
  • 1 Anavolver
  • 1 Arzakon
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chromatic Sphere
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Coalition Victory
  • 1 Collective Restraint
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crosis, the Purger
  • 1 Darigaaz's Caldera
  • 1 Darigaaz, the Igniter
  • 1 Death Grasp
  • 1 Degavolver
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dismantling Blow
  • 1 Dromar, the Banisher
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Elfhame Palace
  • 1 Evasive Action
  • 1 Explosive Vegetation
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Fertile Ground
  • 1 Fires of Yavimaya
  • 1 Flametongue Kavu
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Guided Passage
  • 1 Harrow
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Lightning Angel
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mana Leak
  • 1 Mirari's Wake
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Snake
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Order // Chaos
  • 1 Ordered Migration
  • 1 Pernicious Deed
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Rager
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Prophetic Bolt
  • 1 Questing Phelddagrif
  • 1 Quirion Elves
  • 1 Quirion Trailblazer
  • 1 Rakavolver
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Restock
  • 1 Rith's Grove
  • 1 Rith, the Awakener
  • 1 Salt Marsh
  • 1 Shivan Oasis
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiritmonger
  • 1 Spite // Malice
  • 1 Star Compass
  • 1 Sunscape Battlemage
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Terminal Moraine
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Thornscape Battlemage
  • 1 Thunderscape Battlemage
  • 1 Treva, the Renewer
  • 1 Tsabo Tavoc
  • 1 Urborg Elf
  • 1 Urborg Volcano
  • 1 Utopia Tree
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Worldly Counsel
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 Wrath of God
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yavimaya Elder