Magar by Skomoto

Format: Commander

Commander: Magar of the Magic Strings

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Spellslinger Reanimator strategy commanded by Magar of the Magic Strings. The game plan revolves around discarding or entombing high-mana-value instants and sorceries—such as Blood for the Blood God!, In Garruk's Wake, and Army of the Damned—and animating them with Magar as 3/3 face-down creatures. By granting these creatures evasion through artifacts like Whispersilk Cloak and Thieves' Tools, or graveyard landwalk via Filth, the deck repeatedly triggers free copies of these game-ending spells whenever combat damage is dealt. Acceleration relies on efficient looting and treasure-producing spells like Big Score, creating seamless transitions from early graveyard setup to mid-game dominance. The deck applies overwhelming pressure through recurring board wipes, massive token armies, and direct burn, threatening to close out the table within two turns of its first successful combat connection.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Ancient Cellarspawn
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Army of the Damned
  • 1 Azra Oddsmaker
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Bedlam
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Bitter Reunion
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood for the Blood God!
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brass's Bounty
  • 1 Call Forth the Tempest
  • 1 Cathartic Pyre
  • 1 Cathartic Reunion
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Collector's Vault
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dauthi Trapper
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Dragon's Rage Channeler
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Elemental Eruption
  • 1 Enduring Courage
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Fated Return
  • 1 Filth
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Grab the Prize
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hit the Mother Lode
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 1 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Kill! Maim! Burn!
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magar of the Magic Strings
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 11 Mountain
  • 1 Oriq Loremage
  • 1 Pirate's Pillage
  • 1 Plague Wind
  • 1 Profane Transfusion
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Rising of the Day
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Silver Shroud Costume
  • 1 Skull Storm
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin's Vengeance
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Infamous Cruelclaw
  • 1 Thieves' Tools
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Twinferno
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Zephyr Boots