Empresta pra Galina by vitor-martins

Format: Commander

Commander: Empress Galina

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This mono-blue control deck leverages Empress Galina to dominate commander-centric tables through theft, copying, and heavy permission. The game plan focuses on establishing early mana stability with basic Islands and low-cost mana rocks, deploying utility untappers such as Ioreth of the Healing House and Vizier of Tumbling Sands, and maintaining board control via a dense suite of fourteen counterspells and efficient spot removal. Once the battlefield stabilizes, the deck transitions from reactive disruption to proactive board dominance by stealing high-value opposing commanders or resolving massive clone spells like kicked Rite of Replication and Sakashima's Will. While it lacks fast positive-mana acceleration or compact infinite combos, its sheer volume of stack interaction, combined with asymmetric nonbasic land taxing from Winter Moon and open-hand visibility via Telepathy, allows it to methodically dismantle opposing game plans before closing the game with stolen or duplicated armies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arcanis the Omnipotent
  • 1 Archaeomancer
  • 1 Banishing Betrayal
  • 1 Body Double
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Chase Inspiration
  • 1 Clone
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Disdainful Stroke
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Dissipate
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Ember Island Production
  • 1 Empress Galina
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Flow of Knowledge
  • 1 Gift of Tusks
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Inevitable Betrayal
  • 1 Ioreth of the Healing House
  • 36 Island
  • 1 It'll Quench Ya!
  • 1 Mana Leak
  • 1 Mind Control
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirage Mirror
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Neutralizing Blast
  • 1 Niblis of the Breath
  • 1 Octopus Form
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Press the Enemy
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Refocus
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Sakashima's Will
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Steal Artifact
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Stolen Identity
  • 1 Subjugate the Hobbits
  • 1 Telepathy
  • 1 Tempted by the Oriq
  • 1 Think Twice
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thranduil's Decree
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Trinket Mage
  • 1 Unravel
  • 1 Vizier of Tumbling Sands
  • 1 Volatile Stormdrake
  • 1 Waterbending Lesson
  • 1 Waterbending Scroll
  • 1 Winter Moon
  • 1 Withdraw
  • 1 Worn Powerstone