New Untitled Deck by user9667248

Format: Commander

Commander: Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 79

Deck overview

This competitive Commander deck is built around Grand Arbiter Augustin IV, acting as a premier Azorius stax and combo deck. The primary strategy accelerates Grand Arbiter into play on Turn 2 using format-ceiling fast mana like Chrome Mox, Mox Diamond, and Mana Vault. Once on the battlefield, Grand Arbiter asymmetrically taxes opposing spells by {1} while reducing the cost of the pilot's blue and white spells by {1}. This cost disparity paves the way for oppressive lock pieces such as Trinisphere, Winter Orb, Static Orb, and Drannith Magistrate to paralyze opposing development on Turn 3. Under this lockdown, the deck generates massive card advantage via The One Ring and Rhystic Study before deploying protected game-ending combos on Turn 4, such as Thought Lash into Thassa's Oracle or Painter's Servant paired with Grindstone. Backed by free countermagic and silence effects, it reliably closes the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alms Collector
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Laboratory
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Emeria
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Azor's Elocutors
  • 1 Back to Basics
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Copy Artifact
  • 1 Counterbalance
  • 1 Cursed Totem
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deafening Silence
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Future Sight
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Gilded Drake
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Grindstone
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Humility
  • 1 Intuition
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Karn, the Great Creator
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Magus of the Future
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Painter's Servant
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Rest in Peace
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Stasis
  • 1 Static Orb
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Tezzeret the Seeker
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
  • 1 Thought Lash
  • 1 Time Spiral
  • 1 Timetwister
  • 1 Torpor Orb
  • 1 Trinisphere
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Winter Orb