The heir by user1005549

Format: Commander

Commander: Noctis, Heir Apparent

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is an Esper stax/control deck built around turning Noctis, Heir Apparent into a one-shot commander-damage threat. The deck buys time with a wall-and-tax shell - Rule of Law, Propaganda, Baird, Steward of Argive, Imposing Sovereign, and a dense suite of defenders - while it assembles the right Equipment. Noctis's Warp-Strike makes him unblockable and, because he returns during combat, his own trigger attaches the best Equipment on the battlefield. With Colossus Hammer and a double-strike source like Flaming Fist or Duelist's Heritage, a single swing deals 24 commander damage. Candlekeep Sage turns each Warp-Strike into card draw, while The Key to the Vault and Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor generate additional advantage. This is not a fast combo deck; it is a pillowfort/prison list that finishes through the command zone once Hammer plus double strike comes together.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anchor to Reality
  • 1 Arcane Laboratory
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baird, Steward of Argive
  • 1 Blightbeetle
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cancel
  • 1 Candlekeep Sage
  • 1 Colossus Hammer
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conqueror's Flail
  • 1 Convolute
  • 1 Court Street Denizen
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deadeye Quartermaster
  • 1 Deafening Silence
  • 1 Dragonfire Blade
  • 1 Drift of Phantasms
  • 1 Duelcraft Trainer
  • 1 Duelist's Heritage
  • 1 Eidolon of Rhetoric
  • 1 Elixir of Immortality
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flaming Fist
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glacial Wall
  • 1 Hover Barrier
  • 1 Imi Statue
  • 1 Imposing Sovereign
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isolation Cell
  • 1 Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor
  • 1 Loxodon Warhammer
  • 1 Mentor of the Meek
  • 1 Moon-Blessed Cleric
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Noctis, Heir Apparent
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Omen Hawker
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Censor
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Robe of the Archmagi
  • 1 Royal Assassin
  • 1 Rule of Law
  • 1 Rumor Gatherer
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Squall, SeeD Mercenary
  • 1 Starwinder
  • 1 Steelshaper Apprentice
  • 1 Sun-Spider, Nimble Webber
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Telepathy
  • 1 Tenuous Truce
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thalia, Heretic Cathar
  • 1 The Council of Four
  • 1 The Key to the Vault
  • 1 Trinket Mage
  • 1 Wall of Denial
  • 1 Wall of Frost
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 Wall of Reverence
  • 1 Windborn Muse