Nate, The Great by VicAzul17

Format: Commander

Commander: Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis midrange build centered on Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter. The strategy revolves around exiling cards from opponents' libraries and casting them using flexible mana fixing. The early turns focus on establishing mana rocks and deploying evasive equipment or auras. Once Nathan Drake begins attacking, the engine generates continuous card advantage by casting stolen spells. In the mid-game, major payoffs like Don Andres, the Renegade, Passionate Archaeologist, Etali, Primal Storm, and Plargg and Nassari turn every exiled spell into direct damage, Treasure production, and buffed attackers. The deck controls the board with a flexible suite of removal and creature sweepers such as Blasphemous Act and Blood Money. Because it lacks infinite combos and tutors, the deck closes games through compounded card advantage, aggressive combat steps, and sustained burn triggers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Agent of the Shadow Thieves
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancestral Reminiscence
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azula, Cunning Usurper
  • 1 Bituminous Blast
  • 1 Black Cat, Cunning Thief
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Coastal Piracy
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cunning Rhetoric
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Decadent Dragon // Expensive Taste
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Charm
  • 1 Don Andres, the Renegade
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
  • 1 Grenzo, Havoc Raiser
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Highway Robbery
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 Inside Information
  • 1 Interdimensional Web Watch
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Corsair
  • 1 Laughing Jasper Flint
  • 1 Locke, Treasure Hunter
  • 1 Memory Worm
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Outrageous Robbery
  • 1 Passionate Archaeologist
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plargg and Nassari
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Security Bypass
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Eden, Vault's Key
  • 1 Stolen Strategy
  • 1 Strago and Relm
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Tasha, the Witch Queen
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Twelfth Doctor
  • 1 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Thieves' Tools
  • 1 Thieving Varmint
  • 1 Treasure Map // Treasure Cove
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Vaan, Street Thief
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Wingspan Stride