Booby Trap by Schmovakiin

Format: Commander

Commander: Sharuum the Hegemon

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a creative multiplayer translation of the traditional 60-card Lantern Control archetype, steered by Sharuum the Hegemon. Its core strategy revolves around gaining full visibility of opponents' upcoming draws using Lantern of Insight, Wizened Snitches, and Spy Network, while systematically denying high-impact cards via mill artifacts like Codex Shredder, Ghoulcaller's Bell, and Wand of Denial. The interaction suite leverages 'tuck' removal such as Memory Lapse, Submerge, and Bury in Books to place dangerous opposing permanents or spells onto the top of libraries before instantly milling them away. To close the game, the deck employs recurring blink engines (Teleportation Circle, Soulherder, Thassa, Deep-Dwelling) paired with Sharuum the Hegemon and Magister Sphinx to repeatedly reduce opponents' life totals to 10, closing out the table with lethal airborne combat, or burning opponents out with repeated Booby Trap triggers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Booby Trap
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Bury in Books
  • 1 Cathartic Adept
  • 1 Codex Shredder
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Commit // Memory
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dimir Charm
  • 1 Disempower
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duplicant
  • 1 Echo Storm
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Flickerwisp
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghoulcaller's Bell
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Goldmire Bridge
  • 1 Griptide
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hinder
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lantern of Insight
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Mechanized Production
  • 1 Memory Lapse
  • 1 Meteor Golem
  • 1 Mindshrieker
  • 1 Mirrormade
  • 1 Mishra's Bauble
  • 1 Mistvault Bridge
  • 1 Nascent Metamorph
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Oriq Loremage
  • 1 Oust
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Psychic Surgery
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Reshape
  • 1 Return to Dust
  • 1 Saw It Coming
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Skyclave Relic
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soulherder
  • 1 Spy Network
  • 1 Submerge
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of Hearth and Home
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treasure Mage
  • 1 Unexpectedly Absent
  • 1 Utter End
  • 1 Vanishing Verse
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Wand of Denial
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wizened Snitches