Steally by aelfred

Format: Commander

Commander: Elmar, Ulvenwald Informant and Cecily, Haunted Mage

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This four-color deck pairs Elmar, Ulvenwald Informant and Cecily, Haunted Mage at the helm of a midrange 'Paradox' and theft strategy. The core game plan focuses on casting cards from exile and opponents' libraries to trigger compounding advantages. Early turns emphasize green land ramp through spells like Farseek, Nature's Lore, and Three Visits, quickly developing the mana base to support four colors. By the mid-game, cost-reducers like Savvy Trader and engines like Iraxxa, Empress of Mars and Unstable Amulet generate card flow, creature tokens, and burn damage whenever spells are played from outside the hand. The deck transitions into a win condition around Turn 7 by resolving massive theft bombs such as Villainous Wealth, Dream Harvest, or Doomsday Excruciator, overwhelming the table across subsequent combat turns. While the deck possesses immense value generation and high threat redundancy, it relies primarily on combat damage to close games and has moderate vulnerability to well-timed board sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Advanced Reconstruction
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Azula, Cunning Usurper
  • 1 Cecily, Haunted Mage
  • 1 Chaos Wand
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crabomination
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Didn't Say Please
  • 1 Disorienting Choice
  • 1 Doom Reigns Supreme
  • 1 Doomsday Excruciator
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dream Harvest
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elmar, Ulvenwald Informant
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Fire Lord Ozai
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Fortune Teller's Talent
  • 1 Ghoulcaller's Bell
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
  • 1 Gonti, Night Minister
  • 1 Graham O'Brien
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Haunting Imitation
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Impending Flux
  • 1 Induce Paranoia
  • 1 Inside Information
  • 1 Iraxxa, Empress of Mars
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Korvold and the Noble Thief
  • 1 Krang & Shredder
  • 1 Memory Worm
  • 1 Mizzix, Replica Rider
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Osgood, Operation Double
  • 1 Outrageous Robbery
  • 1 Petty Larceny
  • 1 Psychic Strike
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sage of the Beyond
  • 1 Savvy Trader
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Search for Tomorrow
  • 1 Shadow of the Goblin
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Siphon Insight
  • 1 Sisterhood of Karn
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spider-Man 2099
  • 1 Strago and Relm
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Surge of Brilliance
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 The Twelfth Doctor
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Traverse the Ulvenwald
  • 1 Unstable Amulet
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Villainous Wealth
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 You Find Some Prisoners