Gifts for Everyone by Eclipsed

Format: Commander

Commander: Jon Irenicus, Shattered One

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir control strategy helmed by Jon Irenicus, Shattered One, designed to weaponize 'bad gifts' and permanent goad mechanics. The game plan accelerates into an early commander cast on Turn 3, followed immediately by deploying and donating severely detrimental creatures such as Steel Golem, Grid Monitor, Desecration Elemental, or Archfiend of the Dross on Turn 4. Jon's ability prevents these creatures from being sacrificed, forcing opponents into continuous combat against each other while drawing cards for the pilot every turn cycle. Supported by a robust suite of efficient counterspells, targeted exile removal, and asymmetric stax pieces like Torpor Orb and Painful Quandary, the deck throttles opposing development while turning opponents' life totals against one another. Over 3 full turn rotations of goaded combat and compounding attrition triggers, the table is whittled down to a decisive Turn 7 victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abyssal Persecutor
• 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archfiend of the Dross
• 1 Basalt Monolith
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
• 1 Command Beacon
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Court of Ambition
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Demonic Pact
• 1 Desecration Elemental
• 1 Dig Through Time
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Donate
• 1 Drown in the Loch
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Ebon Drake
• 1 Ebonblade Reaper
• 1 Everflowing Chalice
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fact or Fiction
• 1 Fateful Handoff
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Flesh Reaver
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Greater Harvester
• 1 Grid Monitor
• 1 Immortal Coil
• 1 Imp's Mischief
• 1 Incarnation Technique
• 7 Island
• 1 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One
• 1 Liege of the Pit
• 1 Liquimetal Torque
• 1 Living Death
• 1 March of Swirling Mist
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Nihil Spellbomb
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Painful Quandary
• 1 Perplexing Test
• 1 Phage the Untouchable
• 1 Plague Reaver
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Puca's Mischief
• 1 Reality Shift
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Resculpt
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Shifting Grift
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Sign in Blood
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Steel Golem
• 1 Stifle
• 1 Strip Mine
• 1 Sudden Substitution
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 9 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Tainted Isle
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Taniwha
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Torpor Orb
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Unstoppable Slasher
• 1 Vislor Turlough
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Wrong Turn