Talented Top by TsulKalu

Format: Commander

Commander: The Wandering Minstrel

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 62

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power 5-color Artifact Storm and Combo engine commanded by The Wandering Minstrel. While the commander enables tapped Town lands to enter untapped and provides an auxiliary combat buff, the primary game plan revolves around assembling compact artifact loops. The deck utilizes dense artifact tutors such as Fabricate, Reshape, and Urza's Saga to find Sensei's Divining Top, Foundry Inspector, and top-deck enablers like The Reality Chip or Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass. Once assembled, this engine draws the entire library and generates massive storm to kill the table on Turn 4 via Grapeshot, Brain Freeze, or burn triggers from Vivi Ornitier and Black Mage tokens. Alternatively, Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy and Basalt Monolith generate infinite mana to funnel into Chromatic Orrery. The entire game plan is shielded by an elite suite of free countermagic and proactive tax pieces.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artificer's Intuition
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Baron, Airship Kingdom
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brightglass Gearhulk
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Chromatic Orrery
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cornered by Black Mages
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Delivery Moogle
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Exhaustion
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Fortune Teller's Talent
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gohn, Town of Ruin
  • 1 Gongaga, Reactor Town
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Guadosalam, Farplane Gateway
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Insomnia, Crown City
  • 1 Iron Man, Titan of Innovation
  • 1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
  • 1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Loyal Inventor
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mysidian Elder
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Prologue to Phyresis
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Queen Brahne
  • 1 Rabanastre, Royal City
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reshape
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sharlayan, Nation of Scholars
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Sphinx Summoner
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tezzeret the Seeker
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 Thalia, Heretic Cathar
  • 1 The Reality Chip
  • 1 The Wandering Minstrel
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Transmutation Font
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Treno, Dark City
  • 1 Trinket Mage
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vector, Imperial Capital
  • 1 Vivi Ornitier
  • 1 Vivi's Persistence
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windurst, Federation Center