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Format: Commander

Commander: The Celestial Toymaker

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a thematic Esper control and attrition deck centered around The Celestial Toymaker, weaponizing cards that force pile separation and guessing mini-games. By deploying the commander early, every pile or guess effect drains each opponent for 2 life at the end step while filtering through resources. Acceleration is delivered through standard two-mana rocks, enabling mid-game power plays with Roaming Throne, Hostile Negotiations, and Make an Example. While the deck possesses robust card advantage and versatile reactive removal, its clock is purely incremental, relying on compounding burn triggers and flyer combat damage rather than sudden combo finishes. It thrives in midrange, casual-to-focused multiplayer environments where politics and decision-making mini-games generate substantial card advantage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abstract Performance
  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atris, Oracle of Half-Truths
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Become Anonymous
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boneyard Parley
  • 1 Brilliant Ultimatum
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curator of Destinies
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Death or Glory
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Do or Die
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Epiphany at the Drownyard
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fight or Flight
  • 1 Fortune's Favor
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghastly Conscription
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gollum, Scheming Guide
  • 1 Hostile Negotiations
  • 1 Intrude on the Mind
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jace, Architect of Thought
  • 1 Jeskai Infiltrator
  • 1 Liar's Pendulum
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 MacCready, Lamplight Mayor
  • 1 Make an Example
  • 1 Mangara's Tome
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Parallel Thoughts
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Portal
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Riddles in the Dark
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sauron's Ransom
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx Ambassador
  • 1 Sphinx of Clear Skies
  • 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Struggle for Sanity
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Celestial Toymaker
  • 1 The Seventh Doctor
  • 1 The Toymaker's Trap
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Triumph of Saint Katherine
  • 1 Truth or Tale
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble