Braids the Equalizer by BerserkGattsu

Format: Commander

Commander: Braids, Conjurer Adept

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This mono-blue big-mana deck uses Braids, Conjurer Adept to cheat game-ending permanents directly into play. By accelerating Braids out early, you bypass exorbitant casting costs to drop colossal threats like Blightsteel Colossus, It That Betrays, and Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur onto the battlefield. Additional support cards like Paradox Haze, Sphinx of the Second Sun, and Shadow of the Second Sun multiply your upkeep triggers to overwhelm opponents before they can exploit the symmetrical effect. Once superior board presence is established, you seal the game through massive combat damage, unblockable swings, annihilator sacrifices, or outright lethal infect.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Aetherspouts
  • 1 Akroma's Memorial
  • 1 Ancient Silver Dragon
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arcanis the Omnipotent
  • 1 Archetype of Imagination
  • 1 Artisan of Kozilek
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Braids, Conjurer Adept
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Control Magic
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Darksteel Colossus
  • 1 Darksteel Monolith
  • 1 Dictate of Kruphix
  • 1 Fatespinner
  • 1 Font of Mythos
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gate to the Aether
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Inkwell Leviathan
  • 30 Island
  • 1 It That Betrays
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Kami of the Crescent Moon
  • 1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
  • 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lonely Sandbar
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Paradox Haze
  • 1 Pathrazer of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Platinum Angel
  • 1 Platinum Emperion
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Portal to Phyrexia
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Riptide Laboratory
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Roil Elemental
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Shadow of the Second Sun
  • 1 Show and Tell
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Starwinder
  • 1 Stormtide Leviathan
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
  • 1 The Immortal Sun
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Throne of Eldraine
  • 1 Tidal Force
  • 1 Tromokratis
  • 1 Ulamog's Dreadsire
  • 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wondrous Crucible