Can I have this dance? by Zedicius

Format: Commander

Commander: Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos spellslinger strategy built around Kuja, Genome Sorcerer. Kuja generates 0/1 Wizard creature tokens that deal 1 damage to each opponent whenever you cast a noncreature spell. Once you control four Wizards, Kuja transforms into Trance Kuja, Fate Defied, which doubles all damage dealt by your Wizards. The deck accelerates in the early turns with artifacts like Arcane Signet and Talisman of Indulgence before deploying Kuja on Turn 4. You assemble a board of Wizard tokens alongside redundant pingers like Coruscation Mage and Firebrand Archer. By Turn 6, with Trance Kuja active or damage multipliers like Dictate of the Twin Gods on the field, chaining cheap cantrips, card draw, and burn spells rapidly drains the entire table. The deck finishes on Turn 7 by casting a sequence of noncreature spells or big burn like Breath of Malfegor, dealing lethal group-slug damage simultaneously to all three opponents.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aang's Journey
  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 All-Fates Scroll
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Black Mage's Rod
  • 1 Black Waltz No. 3
  • 1 Blitzball
  • 1 Breath of Malfegor
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 Collective Inferno
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cornered by Black Mages
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Dark Temper
  • 1 Decode Transmissions
  • 1 Dictate of the Twin Gods
  • 1 Dragonfire Blade
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Energybending
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Fountain of Youth
  • 1 Grab the Prize
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Hex Magic
  • 1 Hymn of the Faller
  • 1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Manaform Hellkite
  • 1 Meekstone
  • 14 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mysidian Elder
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Prismari Pianist
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Prophetic Prism
  • 1 Queen Brahne
  • 1 Rakdos Keyrune
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Ravaging Blaze
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rite of the Dragoncaller
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 1 Stensia Bloodhall
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stun
  • 1 Sugar Rush
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 16 Swamp
  • 1 Tablet of Discovery
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Thunderdrum Soloist
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Vision of Love
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wild Ricochet