Flickering shards Semi Revised by Adalae

Format: Commander

Commander: Niko, Light of Hope

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Azorius deck is a blink-value engine led by Niko, Light of Hope. Niko makes Shard tokens and temporarily turns them into copies of any nonlegendary creature you blink, generating card draw and board presence. Repeated exile from Thassa, Deep-Dwelling, Soulherder, Displacer Kitten and Niko itself re-triggers Myr Battlesphere, Solemn Simulacrum, Sludge Monster and other enter effects. Token doublers Mondrak, Glory Dominus and Exalted Sunborn pair with Smothering Tithe and Gleaming Splendor to build treasure, while Blightsteel Colossus with Cybermen Squadron provides a one-shot infect kill via myriad. The deck wins through combat or a treasure-driven draw loop, not fast combo.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Battle Angels of Tyr
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Circuit Mender
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity Crafter
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Cybermen Squadron
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Don & Leo, Problem Solvers
  • 1 Dour Port-Mage
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Everybody Lives!
  • 1 Exalted Sunborn
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
  • 1 Gleaming Bastion
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Gold Myr
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Horizon of Progress
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Krang, Utrom Warlord
  • 1 Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
  • 1 Master Transmuter
  • 1 Meteor Crater
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mirrorworks
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Myr Battlesphere
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Niko Aris
  • 1 Niko, Light of Hope
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Permission Denied
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Research Thief
  • 1 Restless Anchorage
  • 1 Riptide Gearhulk
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Shuri, Wakandan Inventor
  • 1 Silver Myr
  • 1 Sludge Monster
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soulherder
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Windswept Heath