superfriends of shandalar

Format: Commander

Commander: Arzakon

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a classic five-color Superfriends control strategy piloted by Arzakon. The game plan revolves around generating mana stability through artifacts and tri-lands, deploying high-value planeswalkers, and compounding loyalty advantage with proliferators, doublers, and Oath enchantments. While Arzakon provides direct burn, emergency ramp in the form of a Black Lotus token, and a hand reset, the 99 contains an expansive suite of planeswalkers capable of controlling the board, creating defensive creature tokens, and generating card advantage. The deck stabilizes against aggressive boards with sweepers like Supreme Verdict and Elspeth, Sun's Champion, then transitions into a dominant late game powered by Doubling Season, Oath of Teferi, and catastrophic ultimates from Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God or Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh. Its primary vulnerabilities stem from tap-land pacing and high exposure to wide combat attacks.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ajani Steadfast
  • 1 Ajani Unrelenting
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arlinn Kord // Arlinn, Embraced by the Moon
  • 1 Arzakon
  • 1 Brokers Ascendancy
  • 1 Carth the Lion
  • 1 Chandra, Chill of Compliance
  • 1 Chandra, Legacy of Fire
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commodore Guff
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Deepglow Skate
  • 1 Deploy the Gatewatch
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flux Channeler
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Garruk, Apex Predator
  • 1 Garruk, Curse Breaker
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Ichormoon Gauntlet
  • 1 Ignite the Beacon
  • 1 Inexorable Tide
  • 1 Interplanar Beacon
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Jace, Unraveler of Secrets
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kaya, Geist Hunter
  • 1 Kiora of Salt and Sand
  • 1 Loyal Tutor
  • 1 Mila, Crafty Companion // Lukka, Wayward Bonder
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Mutational Advantage
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Oath of Ajani
  • 1 Oath of Gideon
  • 1 Oath of Nissa
  • 1 Oath of Teferi
  • 1 Ob Nixilis Reignited
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Sanctum Lurker
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Semester's End
  • 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Transfer
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swerve
  • 1 Tam, the Possibility
  • 1 Tamiyo, Field Researcher
  • 1 Teferi, Master of Time
  • 1 The Chain Veil
  • 1 The Theorist, Jace Beleren
  • 1 Vivien Reid
  • 1 Way of the Deathbringer
  • 1 Way of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Worzel, the Protector