Pact with the Otherside by bjonkers

Format: Commander

Commander: Prosper, Tome-Bound

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Rakdos exile-cast value engine helmed by Prosper, Tome-Bound. The core loop is simple and powerful: cast spells from exile to trigger Prosper's Pact Boon, generating a Treasure each time, while the impulse-draw shell (Reckless Impulse, Wrenn's Resolve, Ignite the Future, and friends) keeps the gas flowing. The Treasures are then converted into wins through the deck's alternate-condition trinity - Revel in Riches (10 Treasures at upkeep), Hellkite Tyrant (20 artifacts), and Knuckles the Echidna (30 artifacts) - or cashed out for a massive Crackle with Power. Token multipliers like Xorn, Academy Manufactor, and Goldspan Dragon accelerate the count, while cast-from-exile payoffs like Keeper of Secrets, Nico Minoru, Runaway, and Wild-Magic Sorcerer turn every impulse cast into damage. Combat beats from Etali, Primal Storm and Kefka, Dancing Mad provide a secondary, board-based path.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bonehoard Dracosaur
  • 1 Chaos Channeler
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commune with Lava
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Crime Novelist
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Delayed Blast Fireball
  • 1 Dreadbore
  • 1 Dream Devourer
  • 1 Embrace the Unknown
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Hurl Through Hell
  • 1 Ignite the Future
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Ingenious Artillerist
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Keeper of Secrets
  • 1 Kefka, Dancing Mad
  • 1 Knuckles the Echidna
  • 1 Laelia, the Blade Reforged
  • 1 Light Up the Stage
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 16 Mountain
  • 1 Nico Minoru, Runaway
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Passionate Archaeologist
  • 1 Poison the Cup
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Reckless Impulse
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Rob the Archives
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Season of the Bold
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Strike It Rich
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tectonic Giant
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urabrask, Heretic Praetor
  • 1 Valki, God of Lies // Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Wild-Magic Sorcerer
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Wrenn's Resolve
  • 1 Xorn
  • 1 You Find Some Prisoners