Saltai Land Base by Mintsauce

Format: Commander

Commander: The Wise Mothman

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 17

Deck overview

The Wise Mothman turns every nonland mill event into creature growth, so the deck wants an early mill engine followed by repeated milling and a wide, modified board. Hedron Crab, Ruin Crab, Mesmeric Orb, Fractured Sanity, and Maddening Cacophony supply that pressure, while Zellix, Sanity Flayer, Undead Alchemist, Terrasymbiosis, and Danny Pink convert it into creatures or cards. The deck is strongest in a long multiplayer game where incremental milling compounds. Bloodchief Ascension and Mindcrank provide a real infinite mill route, but activating Bloodchief Ascension and finding both pieces are not ordinary early-game events. The main weakness is that mill alone does not eliminate opponents quickly, and the deck has no reliable same-turn or two-cycle finish. It should develop its engine first, then use selective interaction to protect the most important permanent.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archive Trap
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Basking Broodscale
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Compost
  • 1 Danny Pink
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deepmuck Desperado
  • 1 Dreamtide Whale
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Freestrider Lookout
  • 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
  • 1 Glowing One
  • 1 Golgari Charm
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Kodama of the West Tree
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Retribution of the Ancients
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Song of the Dryads
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Master, Transcendent
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 The Wise Mothman
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undead Alchemist
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unnatural Restoration
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wash Away
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Zagoth Triome
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer