I hate everything and everyone by gothcomet

Format: Commander

Commander: Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Mono-Blue Draw-Go Control strategy centered on Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur. During the early turns, the deck focuses on hitting land drops, filtering draws with cantrips like Ponder and Brainstorm, and establishing efficient board control. By Turn 4, it deploys engine pieces such as Wavebreak Hippocamp, Baral, Chief of Compliance, or Talrand, Sky Summoner, while holding up mana for its dense suite of over 18 counterspells. Because the list runs thin permanent ramp, it steadily builds its mana base to 10 mana on Turn 8. At that point, flashing in Jin-Gitaxias creates an oppressive asymmetric lock by drawing 7 cards every end step and forcing all opponents to discard their entire hands. Backed by Forbid buyback, the deck closes out the game around Turn 11 via flying token swarms, Psychosis Crawler life drain, or Jin-Gitaxias combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Blue Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Body of Knowledge
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brineborn Cutthroat
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Condescend
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Delay
  • 1 Desertion
  • 1 Devious Cover-Up
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Dissipate
  • 1 Enter the Infinite
  • 1 Forbid
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frost Titan
  • 1 High Tide
  • 38 Island
  • 1 Jace's Sanctum
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lose Focus
  • 1 Mana Leak
  • 1 Mirror Box
  • 1 Miscast
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Murmuring Mystic
  • 1 Mystical Dispute
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Neurok Stealthsuit
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Overwhelming Intellect
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Robe of Mirrors
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spelljack
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Triskaidekaphile
  • 1 Twenty-Toed Toad
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Verity Circle
  • 1 Wash Away
  • 1 Wavebreak Hippocamp
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wizard Class