Jace upgraded by dmckeller

Format: Commander

Commander: Jace, Multiverse Architect

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a four-color Polymorph Control deck piloted by Jace, Multiverse Architect. The central strategy revolves around generating inexpensive creature tokens in the early game using cards like Dreadhorde Invasion, Skrelv's Hive, and Staff of the Storyteller, supported by an efficient suite of 2-drop mana rocks. On Turn 5, casting Jace allows an immediate activation of his [-3] loyalty ability, exiling a token to cheat massive threats such as Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, Toxrill, the Corrosive, Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, or Archfiend of Despair directly onto the battlefield. While the deck lacks infinite combos, it commands games through brutal asymmetric board suppression, rapid card draw engines, and sweeping spells like Mass Polymorph and Synthetic Destiny. Once multiple high-end threats are in play, evasive combat damage and life-loss multipliers eliminate opponents over a couple of combat cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archfiend of Despair
• 1 Archon of Cruelty
• 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
• 1 Azorius Signet
• 1 Battlefield Forge
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Brainsurge
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Clifftop Retreat
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Contaminated Landscape
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cursed Mirror
• 1 Darksteel Angel
• 1 Despark
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Divergent Transformations
• 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fatehold Charm
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Gilded Lotus
• 1 Ginger, Queen of Sweets
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Grand Crescendo
• 1 Inkshield
• 3 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Izzet Signet
• 1 Jace, Multiverse Architect
• 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Corsair
• 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1 Kher Keep
• 1 Lingering Souls
• 1 Martial Coup
• 1 Mass Polymorph
• 1 Memnarch, the Warden
• 2 Mountain
• 1 Mystic Gate
• 1 Nissa, Leyline Tamer
• 1 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel
• 1 Ob Nixilis, the Ascended
• 1 Occult Epiphany
• 1 Overlord of the Mistmoors
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Perilous Landscape
• 4 Plains
• 1 Plan for All Outcomes
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Proteus Staff
• 1 Radiant Summit
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Restless Anchorage
• 1 Restless Spire
• 1 Sanctum Lurker
• 1 Secure the Wastes
• 1 Serra's Emissary
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Skrelv's Hive
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spark Double
• 1 Staff of the Storyteller
• 1 Stroke of Midnight
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 1 Summon: Bahamut
• 1 Sunfall
• 1 Sunken Ruins
• 2 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Synthetic Destiny
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Teferi's Reproach
• 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
• 1 Turbulent Crater
• 1 Turbulent Shore
• 1 Turbulent Wetlands
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Whirlwind of Thought
• 1 White Sun's Twilight
• 1 Windcrag Siege