Not then? by user4976425

Format: Commander

Commander: Ghen, Arcanum Weaver

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a Mardu Enchantress strategy led by Ghen, Arcanum Weaver that weaponizes forced combat, goad mechanics, and asymmetric life drain. Instead of attacking directly during the early game, the deck enchants opposing threats with Impetuses, Vows, and curses, compelling opponents to eliminate each other while keeping your life total safe behind Ghostly Prison and Eriette of the Charmed Apple. Card advantage engines like Sram, Senior Edificer, Mesa Enchantress, and Killian, Decisive Mentor replenish your hand as you deploy Auras, while Ghen, Arcanum Weaver swaps spent or milled enchantments for high-impact pieces like Cacophony Unleashed or Summon: Primal Odin. In the late game, the deck closes out the final surviving opponent through massive Aura-boosted combat swings with All That Glitters or sustained drain triggers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
  • 1 All That Glitters
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Boros Locket
  • 1 Bothersome Quasit
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Cacophony Unleashed
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chorale of the Void
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Coercive Impetus
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Danitha Capashen, Paragon
  • 1 Daybreak Coronet
  • 1 Demon of Fate's Design
  • 1 Demonic Ruckus
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Doomwake Giant
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Eiganjo Dynastorian // Replenish
  • 1 Eriette of the Charmed Apple
  • 1 Ethereal Armor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Eye of Nidhogg
  • 1 Ghen, Arcanum Weaver
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Ghoulish Impetus
  • 1 Gift of Immortality
  • 1 Glasswing Grace // Age-Graced Chapel
  • 1 Grim Guardian
  • 1 Hateful Eidolon
  • 1 Incriminating Impetus
  • 1 Inevitable End
  • 1 Iona's Blessing
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Khârn the Betrayer
  • 1 Killian, Decisive Mentor
  • 1 Killian, Ink Duelist
  • 1 Komainu Battle Armor
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Mesa Enchantress
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Murmuring Volume
  • 1 Nurgle's Rot
  • 1 Ondu Spiritdancer
  • 1 Orzhov Locket
  • 1 Parasitic Impetus
  • 1 Pearl-Ear, Imperial Advisor
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Psemilla, Meletian Poet
  • 1 Puppet Master, String Puller
  • 1 Rakdos Locket
  • 1 Redemption Arc
  • 1 Scriv, the Obligator
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Shiny Impetus
  • 1 Soaring Lightbringer
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songbirds' Blessing
  • 1 Sram, Senior Edificer
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summon: Anima
  • 1 Summon: Primal Odin
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Taunt from the Rampart
  • 1 Temporal Isolation
  • 1 Tenuous Truce
  • 1 Unquenchable Fury
  • 1 Vengeful Ancestor
  • 1 Vindictive Triumph
  • 1 Visions of Brutality
  • 1 Vow of Duty
  • 1 Vow of Lightning
  • 1 Xantcha, Sleeper Agent