Etrata, the Suppressor by Zigmund_Froyd

Format: Commander

Commander: Etrata, the Silencer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir combat-control strategy built around Etrata, the Silencer. Etrata provides unblockable combat pressure that repeatedly exiles opposing creatures with hit counters. To circumvent her self-shuffling drawback, the list leverages instant-speed blink spells, phasing effects, bounce lands, and clone effects like Sakashima of a Thousand Faces and Blade of Selves. This enables Etrata to accumulate hit counters rapidly without returning to the library. The primary route to victory accelerates using Ramses, Assassin Lord, which wins the game instantly when any opponent is eliminated by an attacking Assassin. A strong Dimir interaction suite featuring efficient counterspells and creature removal disrupts opposing engines while setting up the kill. Backup win conditions include Vorpal Sword activations and mass copy effects via Nanogene Conversion. The deck reliably establishes its engine by Turn 5 and threatens decisive table finishes by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Auton Soldier
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blade of Selves
  • 1 Brotherhood Headquarters
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Countersquall
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadeye Navigator
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Infiltrator
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eagle Vision
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Etrata, the Silencer
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Loki, Lord of Misrule
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mari, the Killing Quill
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Multiply by Zero
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nanogene Conversion
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Perplex
  • 1 Planar Incision
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Ramses, Assassin Lord
  • 1 Ravenloft Adventurer
  • 1 Reality Ripple
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Restart Sequence
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Royal Assassin
  • 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
  • 1 Sanctum of Eternity
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic
  • 1 Teferi's Time Twist
  • 1 Tolaria West
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tyrant's Scorn
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vanishing
  • 1 Vedalken Mastermind
  • 1 Vesuvan Duplimancy
  • 1 Vorpal Sword
  • 1 Watery Grave