nihiloor by user1074174

Format: Commander

Commander: Nihiloor

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Esper deck is a theft-and-blink strategy built around Nihiloor. The core loop is to resolve Nihiloor, tap your own creatures to seize one opposing creature per opponent, then turn the stolen bodies sideways - each stolen attacker drains its owner for 2 life while providing the actual combat damage. A deep blink package (Cloudshift, Ephemerate, Momentary Blink, Soulherder, Thassa, Deep-Dwelling, Conjurer's Closet) plus Panharmonicon re-triggers theft ETBs from Agent of Treachery, Mind Flayer, Dragonlord Silumgar, and friends, turning the 99 into a denial engine. Merieke Ri Berit acts as a hidden commander. The deck also wins by playing opponents' cards through Gonti, Lord of Luxury, Thief of Sanity, Xanathar, Guild Kingpin, Praetor's Grasp, and Bribery, and it can close with a kicked Rite of Replication on Agent of Treachery or an Aura Thief + sacrifice blowout. Esper control elements (counters, spot removal, Propaganda/Ghostly Prison) hold the table while the steal engine grinds out the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 Agent of Treachery
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Sanctum
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archaeomancer's Map
• 1 Aura Thief
• 1 Aven Mindcensor
• 1 Azorius Signet
• 1 Baleful Strix
• 1 Beguiler of Wills
• 1 Bident of Thassa
• 1 Blatant Thievery
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Bribery
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Clackbridge Troll
• 1 Cloudshift
• 1 Coastal Piracy
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conjurer's Closet
• 1 Control Magic
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Diluvian Primordial
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Dragonlord Silumgar
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Entrancing Melody
• 1 Ephemerate
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Extract from Darkness
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Fractured Identity
• 1 Generous Gift
• 1 Ghostly Prison
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1 High Market
• 1 Hostage Taker
• 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1 Inkshield
• 4 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Merieke Ri Berit
• 1 Mind Flayer
• 1 Momentary Blink
• 1 Mulldrifter
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Nihiloor
• 1 Notion Thief
• 1 Opposition Agent
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Outrageous Robbery
• 1 Panharmonicon
• 1 Path to Exile
• 3 Plains
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Port Town
• 1 Praetor's Grasp
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Prying Eyes
• 1 Raffine's Tower
• 1 Reconnaissance Mission
• 1 Rite of Replication
• 1 Sea of Clouds
• 1 Seachrome Coast
• 1 Sepulchral Primordial
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soulherder
• 1 Sower of Temptation
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Supreme Verdict
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
• 1 Thief of Sanity
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1 Willbreaker
• 1 Xanathar, Guild Kingpin