Pitched to Perfection by Bjennings

Format: Commander

Commander: Chromium, the Mutable

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper control and reanimator strategy led by Chromium, the Mutable. It operates by using efficient early looters and card-filtering spells such as Psychic Frog, Likeness Looter, and Faithful Mending to curate the hand while placing massive legendary threats into the graveyard. Between turns 3 and 5, the deck transitions from setup to dominance by casting low-cost reanimation spells like Reanimate and Animate Dead to return game-ending creatures, including Archon of Cruelty, Ancient Brass Dragon, and Valgavoth, Terror Eater. Concurrently, asymmetric discard engines like Waste Not, Tinybones, Bauble Burglar, and Liliana of the Veil strip opponents of critical resources while feeding mana and card draw back into your ledger. Chromium, the Mutable serves as an uncounterable, flash-speed discard outlet and resilient flying finisher. The deck finishes games by overwhelming surviving opponents through superior card quality, continuous board suppression, and high-power aerial combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Gold Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Silver Dragon
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bandit's Talent
  • 1 Bone Miser
  • 1 Call to the Netherworld
  • 1 Chromium, the Mutable
  • 1 Circular Logic
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cunning Lethemancer
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dreadwing Scavenger
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Ebondeath, Dracolich
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Faithful Mending
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Fomori Vault
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geth's Grimoire
  • 1 Ghostly Pilferer
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
  • 1 Havengul Lich
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Hopeless Nightmare
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Likeness Looter
  • 1 Liliana of the Veil
  • 1 Lyna, Veil of Vengeance
  • 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Necrogoyf
  • 1 Nim Deathmantle
  • 1 Nimbus Maze
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Obsessive Search
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Psychic Frog
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shadowgrange Archfiend
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince