Aminatou by griffithwes

Format: Commander

Commander: Aminatou, the Fateshifter

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Esper grind deck built around Aminatou, the Fateshifter as a value flicker engine. It combines heavy self-mill, graveyard recursion, and death-trigger drain to outvalue opponents. The primary plan is to fill the graveyard early, recur powerful enter-then-die pieces like Sun Titan and Angel of Indemnity, and drain the table with Zulaport Cutthroat, Bastion of Remembrance, and Agent of the Iron Throne. Laboratory Maniac plus Mirror of Fate provides an alternate 'draw-out' win. Aminatou's -1 repeatedly blinks permanents for extra enters triggers, while her +1 smooths draws. The deck is not a fast combo deck; it wins through incremental advantage and a late-game combo finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
  • 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
  • 1 Angel of Indemnity
  • 1 Angelic Renewal
  • 1 Another Chance
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Body Snatcher
  • 1 Boonweaver Giant
  • 1 Changing Loyalty
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Compulsive Research
  • 1 Crow of Dark Tidings
  • 1 Danitha, Benalia's Hope
  • 1 Demonic Bargain
  • 1 Dimir House Guard
  • 1 Disenchant
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dread Summons
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fiend Hunter
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Fungal Fortitude
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Gift of Immortality
  • 1 Gnawing Vermin
  • 1 Infernal Offering
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Leonin Relic-Warder
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Minion's Return
  • 1 Mirror of Fate
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Necrogen Communion
  • 1 Ninja Teen
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Paramecia Coloniex
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Perilous Research
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Redemption Choir
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Seal from Existence
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shepherd of the Cosmos
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Summon Undead
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Surveillance Room
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Warring Triad
  • 1 Throne of the Grim Captain // The Grim Captain
  • 1 Tranquil Cove
  • 1 Unburial Rites
  • 1 Undead Butler
  • 1 Unseal the Necropolis
  • 1 Valgavoth's Faithful
  • 1 Wake the Dead
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Werefox Bodyguard
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat