Mirko by user3622120

Format: Commander

Commander: Mirko, Obsessive Theorist

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Mirko, Obsessive Theorist is a Dimir surveil-reanimator engine that can also close games with commander damage. The deck spends its early turns looting with cheap surveil instants and creatures; every trigger grows Mirko and stocks the graveyard. Mirko then works as a repeatable end-step reanimation spell, while classic reanimation spells provide extra copies of that effect. Big flyers, Syr Konrad drain, and the Case/Class package give late-game reach. There is no hidden commander; the deck is built around Mirko. It is not a combo deck: it wins by making the commander or a reanimated threat connect enough times, backed by counterspells and spot removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Body Double
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Case of the Shifting Visage
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Connive // Concoct
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterpoint
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dimir Spybug
  • 1 Discovery // Dispersal
  • 1 Dogged Detective
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Dream Eater
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Eye of Duskmantle
  • 1 Fain, the Broker
  • 1 Gossip's Talent
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Halo Forager
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Lazav, the Multifarious
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Master of Death
  • 1 Matoya, Archon Elder
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirko, Obsessive Theorist
  • 1 Mission Briefing
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Otherworldly Gaze
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Pile On
  • 1 Price of Fame
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Sinister Sabotage
  • 1 Sinister Starfish
  • 1 Snarling Gorehound
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Diviner
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Surveillance Room
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sword of Once and Future
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Thassa, God of the Sea
  • 1 Tocasia's Dig Site
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Unshakable Tail
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Watcher of Hours
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak