I Cast: "Manual Breathing" by bananaboiiiqt

Format: Commander

Commander: Jace, Multiverse Architect

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 59

Deck overview

This deck leverages Jace, Multiverse Architect as a repeatable command-zone Polymorph engine. The primary plan establishes an early token generator such as Bitterblossom or Skrelv's Hive on Turns 1–2, ramps into Jace on Turn 4, and activates his -3 ability to cheat massive threats like Razaketh, the Foulblooded, Tidespout Tyrant, or Toxrill, the Corrosive onto the battlefield. Razaketh converts leftover tokens into tutors for Underworld Breach, Lotus Petal, and Brain Freeze, milling out all opponents on Turn 5. The deck is reinforced by high-tier mana acceleration, free interaction like Force of Will and Fierce Guardianship, and proactive locks like Narset, Parter of Veils and Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite. If Jace is countered or removed, redundant Polymorph spells and graveyard recursion ensure rapid recovery.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darksteel Angel
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Felidar Guardian
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flicker
  • 1 Flux Channeler
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grand Crescendo
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Ichormoon Gauntlet
  • 1 Identity Echo
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jace, Multiverse Architect
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Penance
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polymorph
  • 1 Proteus Staff
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Secure the Wastes
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Skrelv's Hive
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 The Theorist, Jace Beleren
  • 1 Tidespout Tyrant
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Transmogrify
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Vivi's Persistence
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman