Grindhouse by Visionary

Format: Commander

Commander: The Cyber-Controller

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir big-mana control strategy built around The Cyber-Controller. The game plan accelerates through two dozen mana rocks to establish an overwhelming mana base by Turn 4 or 5. Once mana is abundant, the deck deploys trigger multipliers such as Panharmonicon, Virtue of Knowledge, or Starfield Vocalist before casting The Cyber-Controller with a large X value. This mills each opponent, steals their milled creature cards face down as 2/2 Cybermen, and buffs them into 3/3 artifact threats with the commander's static ability. Late-game redundancy comes from massive spells like Rise of the Dark Realms, Singularity Rupture, and Exsanguinate, alongside repeatable buyback control via Capsize and Forbid. While the deck generates massive board presence, its reliance on combat damage without haste leaves it exposed to sweepers across multiple opponent response cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aether Channeler
  • 1 Arc Reactor
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Astral Cornucopia
  • 1 Brass Infiniscope
  • 1 Breathstealer's Crypt
  • 1 Capsize
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coveted Jewel
  • 1 Deadeye Navigator
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Dimir Locket
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Draining Whelk
  • 1 Dreamstone Hedron
  • 1 Empowered Autogenerator
  • 1 Ertai Resurrected
  • 1 Esper Panorama
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Extravagant Replication
  • 1 Fateful Discovery
  • 1 Firemind Vessel
  • 1 Forbid
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Heartless Conscription
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 21 Island
  • 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Lord of Change
  • 1 Marang River Regent // Coil and Catch
  • 1 Mind Over Matter
  • 1 Mirror Room // Fractured Realm
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Scampering Surveyor
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Shadow of the Second Sun
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shire Terrace
  • 1 Shrieking Drake
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sisay's Ring
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spell Burst
  • 1 Starfield Vocalist
  • 1 Stonespeaker Crystal
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 The Cyber-Controller
  • 1 The Eternity Elevator
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Turbulent Wetlands
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Ur-Golem's Eye
  • 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Vedalken Archmage
  • 1 Vedalken Orrery
  • 1 Venser, Shaper Savant
  • 1 Vile Consumption
  • 1 Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Weather Maker
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 Zur's Weirding