queza by mckay4

Format: Commander

Commander: Queza, Augur of Agonies

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper draw-drain combo-control list built around Queza, Augur of Agonies. The central strategy converts card draws directly into life swings, utilizing life gain to fuel massive card draw sequences. The deck plays a defensive early game using efficient countermagic and spot removal to survive, deploying Queza on Turn 4 and stabilizing on Turn 5. The endgame revolves around massive draw enablers such as Lich's Mastery, Marina Vendrell's Grimoire, and Peer into the Abyss. When paired with Queza, these cards create substantial trigger loops that drain opposing life totals while drawing into alternate laboratory win conditions like Laboratory Maniac and Jace, Wielder of Mysteries. An extensive package of cheap protection instants defends Queza against targeted removal, ensuring the commander survives to complete the finishing sequence.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adamant Will
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Bandit's Haul
  • 1 Bane's Contingency
  • 1 Beaming Defiance
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Dismantling Blow
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithful Mending
  • 1 Fblthp, Impossibly Lost
  • 1 Flicker of Fate
  • 1 Fountainport Bell
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Gustha Ebbasdotter
  • 1 Harmonized Trio // Brainstorm
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Induced Amnesia
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
  • 1 Keep Safe
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Lich's Mastery
  • 1 Lightfoot Technique
  • 1 Lithoform Blight
  • 1 Lunar Convocation
  • 1 Lyra, Tolarian Archangel
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Marina Vendrell's Grimoire
  • 1 Misty Palms Oasis
  • 1 Momentary Blink
  • 1 Necrologia
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel
  • 1 No More Lies
  • 1 Outwit
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Patrician's Scorn
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Mire
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
  • 1 Radiant Fountain
  • 1 Refute
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Revoke Existence
  • 1 Risky Shortcut
  • 1 Rushing-Tide Zubera
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Slip On the Ring
  • 1 Starseer Mentor
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Speed Demon
  • 1 Thirst for Discovery
  • 1 Thirst for Meaning
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thraben Charm
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Time Wipe
  • 1 Tranquil Cove
  • 1 Treacherous Greed
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Vnwxt, Verbose Host