Let's all draw cards and put them in our graveyards by WunggaSith

Format: Commander

Commander: Mathise, Surge Channeler

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This mono-blue deck is commanded by Mathise, Surge Channeler, focusing on high-volume card draw, group-hug draw effects, and draw-triggered payoffs. The game plan revolves around casting instant and sorcery spells with mana value 3 or greater to trigger Mathise's d20 ability, yielding steady card advantage and occasional spell copies. As your hand swells and draw triggers accumulate, the deck converts raw card velocity into game-ending pressure through life-drain engines like Psychosis Crawler and Scrawling Crawler, mass mill enchantments such as Psychic Corrosion and Teferi's Tutelage, or alternate win conditions including Twenty-Toed Toad and Triskaidekaphile. While the deck excels at generating an overwhelming volume of cards and rebuilding effortlessly after disruption, it carries notable vulnerabilities: its interaction suite is high in mana cost with no board sweepers, and its group-draw engines inadvertently supply opponents with extra resources. Piloted effectively, it overwhelms the table through relentless draw triggers and inescapable late-game attrition.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aether Syphon
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Bane's Contingency
  • 1 Behold the Multiverse
  • 1 Blue Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Body of Knowledge
  • 1 Borrowing 100,000 Arrows
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Chandra, Chill of Compliance
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Contact Other Plane
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Delightful Discovery
  • 1 Diviner's Portent
  • 1 Eject
  • 1 Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall
  • 1 Flow of Knowledge
  • 1 Folio of Fancies
  • 1 Galestrike
  • 1 Ghirapur Orrery
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Huddle Up
  • 38 Island
  • 1 Jace Beleren
  • 1 Jace's Erasure
  • 1 Keep Watch
  • 1 Leave in the Dust
  • 1 Mathise, Surge Channeler
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
  • 1 Minds Aglow
  • 1 Mordenkainen
  • 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
  • 1 Ominous Seas
  • 1 Pixie Guide
  • 1 Plea for Power
  • 1 Proft's Eidetic Memory
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Repulse
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellgyre
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Teferi's Tutelage
  • 1 Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim
  • 1 Temple Bell
  • 1 The Magic Mirror
  • 1 The Watcher in the Water
  • 1 Thirst for Discovery
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Triskaidekaphile
  • 1 Twenty-Toed Toad
  • 1 Variable Chaser // Arc of Fortune
  • 1 Venser's Journal
  • 1 Wizard Class
  • 1 Wizard's Spellbook