Optimus prime by Unholygory

Format: Commander

Commander: Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck executes an aggressive Jeskai artifact strategy centered on Optimus Prime, Hero. It accelerates through 2-drop mana rocks and cost reducers to cast high-impact artifact creatures ahead of curve. The engine places +1/+1 counters across the board using bolster, modular abilities, and proliferate triggers. Once a wide board is established, Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader, War Machine, Avenging Arsenal, and Alibou, Ancient Witness convert these counters into lethal combat damage via trample, flying, double strike, and direct burn. The deck protects its board state with static ward and hexproof layers, and it leverages living metal mechanics to dodge sorcery-speed creature removal. It recovers quickly from disruption through built-in commander recursion and artifact reanimation, closing out 4-player games steadily by turns 7 to 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abzan Falconer
  • 1 Alibou, Ancient Witness
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arcbound Shikari
  • 1 Arcee, Sharpshooter // Arcee, Acrobatic Coupe
  • 1 Armor Wars
  • 1 Avengers Hangar
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Blacksmith's Skill
  • 1 Bronze Guardian
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
  • 1 Experimental Augury
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Ferrous Lake
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gold-Forged Thopteryx
  • 1 HYDRA Assault Robot
  • 1 Inexorable Tide
  • 1 Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian
  • 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Kilo, Apogee Mind
  • 1 Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion
  • 1 Lasting Tarfire
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Losheel, Clockwork Scholar
  • 1 Lux Artillery
  • 1 Mendicant Core, Guidelight
  • 1 Molten Tributary
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 North Pole Gates
  • 1 One with the Machine
  • 1 Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Patrolling Peacemaker
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle
  • 1 Pym Particles
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer
  • 1 Requisition Raid
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Serum Snare
  • 1 Shuri, Wakandan Inventor
  • 1 Sigarda's Summons
  • 1 Slicer, Hired Muscle // Slicer, High-Speed Antagonist
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Sound the Trumpets
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Surge Conductor
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tempered Steel
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Urza, Prince of Kroog
  • 1 Voyage Home
  • 1 Voyager Quickwelder
  • 1 Wake the Past
  • 1 War Machine, Avenging Arsenal
  • 1 Wizard's Staff