Mothman by user5739613

Format: Commander

Commander: The Wise Mothman

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This Sultai midrange deck harnesses The Wise Mothman to execute a hybrid strategy of radiation attrition, mass mill, and +1/+1 counter beatdown. Early turns focus on establishing mana fixing and deploying Mothman to seed rad counters across the table. Each opponent's precombat main phase forces continuous self-mill and life loss, which in turn fuels Mothman's ability to distribute +1/+1 counters across your attacking Mutants. The deck magnifies this engine through counter doublers like Corpsejack Menace and mill multipliers like Bruvac the Grandiloquent. Secondary win conditions include an infinite drain loop via Bloodchief Ascension and Mindcrank, mass reanimation with Rise of the Dark Realms, and asymmetrical board resets like Cyclonic Rift. While vulnerable to instant-speed creature removal and graveyard-shuffling effects, the deck maintains steady pressure and robust resilience through wide counter distribution and high threat redundancy.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Altar of Dementia
• 1 Altered Ego
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 2 Atomize
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Bloatfly Swarm
• 1 Bloodchief Ascension
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Corpsejack Menace
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Court of Cunning
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Cut Your Losses
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Doubling Season
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Feral Ghoul
• 1 Flooded Grove
• 7 Forest
• 1 Fractured Sanity
• 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
• 1 Glowing One
• 1 Harold and Bob, First Numens
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Infesting Radroach
• 1 Insatiable Avarice
• 1 Inspiring Call
• 4 Island
• 1 Jenova, Ancient Calamity
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Maddening Cacophony
• 1 Marcus, Mutant Mayor
• 1 Mind Grind
• 1 Mindcrank
• 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
• 1 Nightkin Ambusher
• 1 Nuclear Fallout
• 1 Opulent Palace
• 1 Overflowing Basin
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Psychic Corrosion
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 Ruin Crab
• 1 Screeching Scorchbeast
• 1 Shared Summons
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
• 1 Singularity Rupture
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Strong, the Brutish Thespian
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Sunken Ruins
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Talisman of Curiosity
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Terrasymbiosis
• 1 The Master of Lake-town
• 1 The Master, Transcendent
• 1 The Mindskinner
• 1 The Ozolith
• 1 The Wise Mothman
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Traumatize
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Vexing Radgull
• 1 Viridescent Bog
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Whispersilk Cloak
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Yavimaya Coast