New Untitled Deck by user5073435

Format: Commander

Commander: The Madcap Jester

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This Grixis deck is an impulse-theft engine built around The Madcap Jester. The strategy focuses on exiling cards from opponents' libraries and casting them using mana of any color. Low-cost ramp accelerates the commander onto the battlefield by Turn 3 or 4, where each attack immediately captures cards from all three opponents. The deck escalates rapidly through mass exile spells like Tasha's Hideous Laughter and explosive engines like Etali, Primal Storm and Plargg and Nassari. As stolen cards are played, value amplifiers including Prosper, Tome-Bound, Don Andres, the Renegade, and Nalfeshnee generate overwhelming mana, tokens, and spell copies. Direct damage engines like Passionate Archaeologist, Keeper of Secrets, and Brainstealer Dragon convert high mana value stolen spells into rapid life total reduction across the table. While it avoids infinite combos, its sheer card velocity, surgical library extraction, and wide creature boards steadily grind down opposing life totals.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
  • 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
  • 1 Black Widow, Super Spy
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Cemetery Gatekeeper
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Circu, Dimir Lobotomist
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cunning Rhetoric
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deadpool, Trading Card
  • 1 Don Andres, the Renegade
  • 1 Dragon's Smile
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dream-Thief's Bandana
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Ensnared by the Mara
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fathom Feeder
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Gonti, Night Minister
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jabs, Mistress of Mockery
  • 1 Jester's Cap
  • 1 Jester's Scepter
  • 1 Keeper of Secrets
  • 1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin
  • 1 Kefka, Dancing Mad
  • 1 Laughing Jasper Flint
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mind's Dilation
  • 1 Mnemonic Betrayal
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nalfeshnee
  • 1 Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter
  • 1 Nico Minoru, Runaway
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Passionate Archaeologist
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plargg and Nassari
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Rev, Tithe Extractor
  • 1 Riverpyre Verge
  • 1 Sadistic Sacrament
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Scrib Nibblers
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sire of Stagnation
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 Tasha, the Witch Queen
  • 1 The Madcap Jester
  • 1 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Thieving Varmint
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Uba Mask
  • 1 Wand of Wonder
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wild-Magic Sorcerer
  • 1 Xander's Lounge