Drake and Destroy by FrostWolf79

Format: Commander

Creator: FrostWolf79

Commander: Matoya, Archon Elder

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This mono-blue tempo deck aims to establish early board presence with evasive flying creatures, predominantly Drakes, and maintain card advantage to overwhelm opponents through combat damage. Matoya, Archon Elder serves as an auxiliary draw engine when paired with low-cost scry and surveil spells like Opt and Consider. The primary strategy involves deploying efficient aerial threats, bolstering their power with anthem effects such as Favorable Winds and Windstorm Drake, and disrupting opposing defenses with efficient bounce spells like Gust of Wind and Into the Roil. Without combo lines, the deck wins through steady, unhindered combat steps.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aerial Guide
  • 1 Angler Drake
  • 1 Anticipate
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arrester's Admonition
  • 1 Azure Drake
  • 1 Chart a Course
  • 1 Chasm Drake
  • 1 Chemister's Insight
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Curious Obsession
  • 1 Darkslick Drake
  • 1 Decoy Gambit
  • 1 Disperse
  • 1 Divination
  • 1 Drake Haven
  • 1 Eyekite
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Favorable Winds
  • 1 Geyser Drake
  • 1 Gust of Wind
  • 1 Hinterland Drake
  • 1 Into the Roil
  • 1 Iridescent Drake
  • 34 Island
  • 1 Lofty Denial
  • 1 Loyal Drake
  • 1 Matoya, Archon Elder
  • 1 Messenger Drake
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Murmuring Mystic
  • 1 Muse Drake
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Pteramander
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Quicksilver Fisher
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Repeal
  • 1 Sapphire Drake
  • 1 Scrapskin Drake
  • 1 Sea Drake
  • 1 Seacoast Drake
  • 1 Secrets of the Golden City
  • 1 Serum Raker
  • 1 Shimmerscale Drake
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Spiketail Drakeling
  • 1 Sprite Noble
  • 1 Talrand's Invocation
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Think Twice
  • 1 Thunderclap Drake
  • 1 Tide Skimmer
  • 1 Trawler Drake
  • 1 Warden of Evos Isle
  • 1 Windstorm Drake
  • 1 Winged Words