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Format: Commander

Commander: The Celestial Toymaker

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This Esper control-combo deck leverages The Celestial Toymaker to turn pile-separating and guessing cards into steady card flow and incremental burn. Pillowfort enchantments like Propaganda and Ghostly Prison alongside cheap countermagic stall aggressive boards while the commander taxes opponents for every minigame resolved. While the commander slowly drains life totals, the true endgame pivots into lethal life-drain combos. Combining damage doublers like Bloodletter of Aclazotz with Wound Reflection rapidly finishes tables, while two-card loops between life-gain pingers like Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose or Sanguine Bond and life-loss triggers like Exquisite Blood or Bloodthirsty Conqueror execute immediate infinite-drain victories.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Adric, Mathematical Genius
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atris, Oracle of Half-Truths
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Boneyard Parley
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chameleon, Master of Disguise
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dark Leo & Shredder
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Do or Die
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Epiphany at the Drownyard
  • 1 Everybody Lives!
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fight or Flight
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Fortune's Favor
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gogo, Master of Mimicry
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hostile Negotiations
  • 1 Illusionist's Gambit
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 1 Island
  • 1 K-9, Mark I
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Long River's Pull
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 MacCready, Lamplight Mayor
  • 1 Make an Example
  • 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sauron's Ransom
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Slaughter the Strong
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Celestial Toymaker
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 The Toymaker's Trap
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Truth or Tale
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vanishing Verse
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Wound Reflection