Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic by Lycanthrope5150

Format: Commander

Commander: Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Dimir deck helmed by Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic is a graveyard-centric mill-and-copy strategy. The primary game plan leverages Bruvac the Grandiloquent to double all mill effects, aiming to assemble the two-card combo with Maddening Cacophony (kicked) to mill each opponent's entire library. The commander provides a repeatable copy effect each turn, letting you steal value from opponents' creatures or graveyards, while the deck uses recursion (Animate Dead, Emet-Selch of the Third Seat) and copy effects (Spark Double, Identity Thief) to grind out incremental advantage. Secondary win conditions include incremental mill via Ruin Crab and The Water Crystal, plus extra-turn pressure from Temporal Trespass. The deck is a slow, value-oriented mill engine that can pivot to a combo finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
  • 1 Barrowgoyf
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Case the Joint
  • 1 Castle Doom
  • 1 Chart a Course
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterbalance
  • 1 Criminal Past
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Dark Deed
  • 1 Depower
  • 1 Dimir Doppelganger
  • 1 Echoing Deeps
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Frozen in Ice
  • 1 Ghost, Spectral Saboteur
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 HYDRA Troopers
  • 1 Heartless Pillage
  • 1 Hour of Defeat
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Identity Thief
  • 1 Into the Story
  • 1 Iron Maiden
  • 14 Island
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Leyline Dowser
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Loki, God of Mischief
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Memory Theft
  • 1 Mind Rot
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Nanogene Conversion
  • 1 Ninja Teen
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Prophetic Prism
  • 1 Robot Domination
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Shoot the Sheriff
  • 1 Skulduggery
  • 1 Sleep Magic
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Super Intelligence
  • 1 Super Suit
  • 1 Surveillance Room
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic
  • 1 Temporal Trespass
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Volatile Fault
  • 1 Voracious Tome-Skimmer
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Witch's Cottage