Jon Irenicus by PhyrexianChad

Format: Commander

Commander: Jon Irenicus, Shattered One

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir goad and attrition control deck commanded by Jon Irenicus, Shattered One. The strategy revolves around deploying aggressively costed creatures with crippling drawbacks, such as Phyrexian Soulgorger, Rotting Regisaur, and Plague Reaver, and donating them to opponents at your end step. Jon buffs these creatures with two +1/+1 counters, makes them permanently goaded, and prevents them from being sacrificed. This forces opponents to attack each other with massive threats while suffering debilitating upkeep penalties like forced creature sacrifice, hand discard, or life loss. As opponents brawl, Jon draws you a fresh card whenever an owned creature attacks. Meanwhile, you establish a defensive pillowfort using cards like Propaganda, Dissipation Field, and No Mercy alongside counterspells to stay untouched. You close out the game once opponents weaken each other, finishing the survivor through superior card advantage, combat damage, Homeward Path, or Reins of Power.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abyssal Persecutor
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of the Dross
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Blade
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Countersquall
  • 1 Crawlspace
  • 1 Curse of Verbosity
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Demonic Taskmaster
  • 1 Desecration Elemental
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Diplomatic Immunity
  • 1 Dissipation Field
  • 1 Drinker of Sorrow
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Ebon Drake
  • 1 Ebonblade Reaper
  • 1 Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore
  • 1 Evil Eye of Urborg
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flesh Reaver
  • 1 Gallowbraid
  • 1 Ghoulish Impetus
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 Homeward Path
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Invisible Stalker
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Master of the Feast
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Modify Memory
  • 1 Morinfen
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Phyrexian Soulgorger
  • 1 Plague Reaver
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reins of Power
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rot-Curse Rakshasa
  • 1 Rotting Regisaur
  • 1 Run Away Together
  • 1 Rust Elemental
  • 1 Shifting Grift
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tormented Soul
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wretched Anurid
  • 1 Wrong Turn