Up to No Good by xibalba

Format: Commander

Commander: Sakashima of a Thousand Faces and Tymna the Weaver

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This Esper midrange deck pairs Tymna the Weaver and Sakashima of a Thousand Faces to build an overwhelming card advantage and cloning engine. In the early game, cheap evasive creatures and two-mana artifacts accelerate Tymna into play on turn three. Sakashima enters on turn four to copy Tymna, ignoring the legend rule and doubling your combat card draw every turn cycle. As the game transitions into the midgame, the deck leverages its deep card flow to deploy and clone top-tier threats like Battle Angels of Tyr, Consecrated Sphinx, and Bloodthirsty Conqueror. Multiple copies of myriad creatures and flying beaters rapidly assemble a lethal air force. A dense suite of seventeen spot removal spells, board sweepers, and counterspells keeps opposing threats in check while defending your board. The deck reliably closes games around turn eight through evasive combat damage and overwhelming resource superiority.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Angel of Despair
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer
  • 1 Archangel of Tithes
  • 1 Battle Angels of Tyr
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bovine Intervention
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Cackling Counterpart
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Clever Impersonator
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extravagant Replication
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Firemane Commando
  • 1 Flash Photography
  • 1 Flesh Duplicate
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mind's Dilation
  • 1 Mirrorhall Mimic // Ghastly Mimicry
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 No Witnesses
  • 1 Orvar, the All-Form
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Pollywog Prodigy
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relm's Sketching
  • 1 Replication Technique
  • 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
  • 1 Sakashima the Impostor
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 See Double
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shoot the Sheriff
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Time Warp
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tymna the Weaver
  • 1 Vizier of Many Faces
  • 1 Will of the Temur
  • 1 Windborn Muse