Sakashima the Imposter (Copy & Steal) by Delanchet

Format: Commander

Commander: Sakashima the Impostor

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This mono-blue deck is a dedicated clone, theft, and control strategy led by Sakashima the Impostor. The game plan revolves around leveraging opponents' best creatures and utility pieces by copying or stealing them. In the early game, the deck deploys 2-CMC mana rocks and establishes card draw to stay ahead on resources. By the mid-game, it plays flexible shapeshifters like Vizier of Many Faces, Stunt Double, and Sakashima to mirror high-value opposing engines. In the late game, the deck turns the corner with massive swings such as kicked Rite of Replication, Blatant Thievery, and Agent of Treachery, generating an overwhelming board state of duplicate threats. A solid package of countermagic and bounce spells provides defensive stability and disrupts opposing victories while protecting key turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aether Gale
  • 1 Agent of Treachery
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baral's Expertise
  • 1 Blatant Thievery
  • 1 Blink of an Eye
  • 1 Body Double
  • 1 Cackling Counterpart
  • 1 Caged Sun
  • 1 Careful Consideration
  • 1 Castle Vantress
  • 1 Control Magic
  • 1 Corrupted Conscience
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cryptoplasm
  • 1 Desertion
  • 1 Distorting Wake
  • 1 Echoing Truth
  • 1 Epiphany at the Drownyard
  • 1 Expel from Orazca
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Fated Infatuation
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gather Specimens
  • 1 Gigantoplasm
  • 1 Guardian Idol
  • 1 Insidious Will
  • 1 Into the Roil
  • 28 Island
  • 1 Keiga, the Tide Star
  • 1 Mass Manipulation
  • 1 Mercurial Pretender
  • 1 Mimic Vat
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirror Image
  • 1 Mirrorpool
  • 1 Monastery Siege
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Confluence
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Opportunity
  • 1 Precognitive Perception
  • 1 Quasiduplicate
  • 1 Rain of Revelation
  • 1 Read the Runes
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Saheeli's Artistry
  • 1 Sakashima the Impostor
  • 1 Sakashima's Student
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stolen Identity
  • 1 Stunt Double
  • 1 Supplant Form
  • 1 Tempt with Reflections
  • 1 Terrain Generator
  • 1 Thieving Skydiver
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Tolaria West
  • 1 Turn Aside
  • 1 Vesuvan Shapeshifter
  • 1 Vizier of Many Faces
  • 1 Wall of Stolen Identity
  • 1 Wash Away
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 Zndrsplt's Judgment