Flicker by luke56

Format: Commander

Commander: Aminatou, the Fateshifter

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Blink Combo list commanded by Aminatou, the Fateshifter. The primary strategy focuses on deploying low-cost value creatures that generate card draw, mana fixing, and board control upon entering the battlefield. Aminatou repeatedly flickers these permanents to pull ahead on resources while digging for combo components. The deck closes games through compact infinite loops, predominantly pairing Aminatou with Felidar Guardian alongside enter-the-battlefield damage outlets like Corpse Knight or mill engines like Altar of the Brood. Secondary win conditions include Deadeye Navigator generating infinite mana with Peregrine Drake and Preston, the Vanisher creating infinite illusion armies. The deck protects its combo turns using Teferi, Time Raveler to eliminate opposing instant-speed interaction and runs heavy enter-the-battlefield removal to control the board until it executes a lethal same-turn kill.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
  • 1 Aether Channeler
  • 1 Agent of Treachery
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Banishing Stroke
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brago, King Eternal
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Charming Prince
  • 1 Cloudblazer
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Deadeye Navigator
  • 1 Devastation Tide
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Displace
  • 1 Dour Port-Mage
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Felidar Guardian
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Halimar Depths
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 Ichormoon Gauntlet
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Isolated Watchtower
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Oath of Kaya
  • 1 Oath of Teferi
  • 1 Omen of the Sea
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Perplexing Chimera
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Preston, the Vanisher
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Recruiter of the Guard
  • 1 Reflector Mage
  • 1 Restoration Angel
  • 1 Semester's End
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soulherder
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Starfield Vocalist
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Temporal Mastery
  • 1 Terminus
  • 1 Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad