Nazgul x Wraith by user3921895

Format: Commander

Commander: Lord of the Nazgûl

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a tightly-constructed Dimir spellslinger-tribal deck helmed by Lord of the Nazgul, built to generate a critical mass of Wraith tokens through instant and sorcery casting, then turn them into 9/9 menaces with the commander's threshold ability. The deck leverages the nine copies of Nazgul as both Wraith-type payoffs and Ring-temptation engines that distribute +1/+1 counters across the board, creating a dual-axis combat threat that grows incrementally and explosively. The primary win condition is overwhelming combat damage through an army of Wraiths, with the commander's floor-to-ceiling power boost providing a sudden, game-ending swing. The deck is supported by a dense interaction suite of counterspells and removal, premium card draw engines like Necropotence and Rhystic Study, and a low-curve mana base that enables rapid spell slinging. Secondary paths include value-driven attrition through The One Ring and Orcish Bowmasters advantage, while Toxic Deluge and Cyclonic Rift provide reset buttons when the board gets out of hand.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Birthday Escape
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Cremate
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Dabbling
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Impulse
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins
  • 1 Keep Safe
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Peek
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Serum Visions
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tale's End
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Telling Time
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wavebreak Hippocamp