Hidetsugu budget 70 Extra turns by MaierCL

Format: Commander

Commander: Hidetsugu and Kairi

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This Dimir deck leverages Hidetsugu and Kairi as both a topdeck manipulation engine and a game-ending win condition. By casting clone spells that target the commander, the deck abuses the Legend Rule: when a clone enters, one legendary copy immediately dies without passing priority. This triggers the commander's death ability, exiling the top card of the library, dealing damage equal to its mana value to an opponent, and casting it for free if it is an instant or sorcery. The deck packs a dense suite of high-cost extra-turn spells, mass reanimation, and asymmetric sweepers. Once the first clone resolves, the deck chains extra turns and reanimation spells, dealing massive direct damage while establishing an insurmountable board. It runs efficient early ramp to land the commander on Turn 4 or 5, supported by cheap interaction to protect its winning turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aberrant Return
  • 1 Aminatou's Augury
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Army of the Damned
  • 1 Beacon of Unrest
  • 1 Bloodline Bidding
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Castle Vantress
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clone Legion
  • 1 Coiling Rebirth
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commit // Memory
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curtains' Call
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deceptive Frostkite
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Discovery // Dispersal
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Echocasting Symposium
  • 1 Ever After
  • 1 Evil Reawakened
  • 1 Evil Twin
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fated Infatuation
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fractured Powerstone
  • 1 Gigantoplasm
  • 1 Grave Endeavor
  • 1 Halimar Depths
  • 1 Hidetsugu and Kairi
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Karn's Temporal Sundering
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirror Image
  • 1 Mirror Mockery
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Necromantic Selection
  • 1 Necrotic Hex
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Part the Waterveil
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Planar Atlas
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Quasiduplicate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Replication Technique
  • 1 Restart Sequence
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Saheeli's Artistry
  • 1 See Double
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin's Vengeance
  • 1 Spelltwine
  • 1 Sublime Epiphany
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Palace
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Time Stretch
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Undercover Operative
  • 1 Undying Evil
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vizier of Many Faces
  • 1 Walk the Aeons
  • 1 Zombify