Counter intelligence by MISTAHJ

Format: Commander

Commander: Inspirit, Flagship Vessel

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a Jeskai artifact midrange strategy helmed by Inspirit, Flagship Vessel. It leverages low-cost mana rocks and cost reducers to deploy Inspirit ahead of curve, then stations artifact creatures to accumulate charge counters quickly. Upon reaching 8 charge counters, Inspirit animates into a 5/5 flying threat and grants blanket hexproof and indestructible to all other artifacts you control. This invulnerable artifact shell powers explosive card draw and mana generation through pieces like Insight Engine and Empowered Autogenerator. Proliferate engines like Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus and Kilo, Apogee Mind accelerate counters across the board, setting up game-ending plays with Cyberdrive Awakener, Lux Artillery, or Thousand Moons Smithy. The deck protects its setup using targeted countermagic and mass phasing via Ripples of Potential, while leveraging Organic Extinction as an asymmetric one-sided board wipe to clear opposing blockers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adagia, Windswept Bastion
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alibou, Ancient Witness
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Animation Module
  • 1 Annul
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Astral Cornucopia
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Clock of Omens
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Darksteel Reactor
  • 1 Deepglow Skate
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Empowered Autogenerator
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Experimental Augury
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glittering Massif
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Improvised Arsenal
  • 1 Insight Engine
  • 1 Inspiring Statuary
  • 1 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel
  • 1 Iron Lad, Diverging Destiny
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Karn, Living Legacy
  • 1 Kilo, Apogee Mind
  • 1 Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor
  • 1 Lux Artillery
  • 1 Lux Cannon
  • 1 Magistrate's Scepter
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Moxite Refinery
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Nettlecyst
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Pentad Prism
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Pinnacle Emissary
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Radiant Lotus
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Ragost, Deft Gastronaut
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Resourceful Defense
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Rustvale Bridge
  • 1 Salvation Engine
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shuri, Wakandan Inventor
  • 1 Silverbluff Bridge
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Surge Conductor
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Temple of Triumph
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 Thousand Moons Smithy // Barracks of the Thousand
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Unbender Tine
  • 1 Unctus, Grand Metatect
  • 1 Uthros Research Craft
  • 1 Vraska, Soul of Stone
  • 1 Wake the Past