Golbez by slyguy16

Format: Commander

Commander: Golbez, Crystal Collector

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir artifact synergy engine helmed by Golbez, Crystal Collector. The game plan revolves around rapidly deploying cheap mana rocks, artifact lands, and artifact token generators to establish an early board presence. As artifacts enter the battlefield, Golbez surveils cards into the graveyard, sculpting draws and binning massive creatures such as Apocalypse Demon and Broodstar. Once the board reaches four artifacts, Golbez provides steady card advantage by recurring creatures to hand. At eight or more artifacts, Golbez converts this recursion into devastating table-wide life loss equal to the returned creature's power each end step. Secondary win conditions include mass animation via Cyberdrive Awakener, tall construct generation from Simulacrum Synthesizer, and top-deck card advantage loops with Mystic Forge. The deck utilizes asymmetric sweepers like Terisiare's Devastation to maintain control while closing the game through inevitable burn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Apocalypse Demon
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Broodstar
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Codex Shredder
  • 1 Collector's Vault
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Day of Black Sun
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Forensic Gadgeteer
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Glaring Fleshraker
  • 1 Golbez, Crystal Collector
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Leaden Myr
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Matoya, Archon Elder
  • 1 Mephitic Draught
  • 1 Metallic Rebuke
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirrodin Besieged
  • 1 Mishra's Bauble
  • 1 Mistvault Bridge
  • 1 Mm'menon, the Right Hand
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Noble's Purse
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Lens
  • 1 Prized Statue
  • 1 Riddlesmith
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Scene of the Crime
  • 1 Scientist Supreme of A.I.M.
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shimmer Dragon
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silver Myr
  • 1 Simulacrum Synthesizer
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Terisiare's Devastation
  • 1 Terror Tide
  • 1 The Mechanist, Aerial Artisan
  • 1 The Reality Chip
  • 1 Thirst for Discovery
  • 1 Thirst for Knowledge
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Thoughtcast
  • 1 Time Sieve
  • 1 Treasure Map // Treasure Cove
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Uthros Research Craft
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Vedalken Archmage
  • 1 Watery Grave