Illusion's are real by otori77

Format: Commander

Commander: Minn, Wily Illusionist

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Minn, Wily Illusionist is the engine of this mono-blue value deck: every turn, drawing a second card creates an Illusion token, and when those Illusions die, Minn can put expensive permanents from hand into play. The primary plan is to chain draw spells and cantrips through Teferi's Ageless Insight, Wizard Class, and similar effects to build a critical mass of Illusions that pump one another, then win with an unblockable alpha strike via Tetsuko Umezawa or flying via Wonder. Secondary paths include Psychosis Crawler life-drain, The Mindskinner mill, and cheating Omniscience into play through Minn's death trigger. There is no hidden commander, and the deck is not built around a double-faced commander.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abjure
  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Epiphany
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brush Off
  • 1 Chase Inspiration
  • 1 Court of Vantress
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Deduce
  • 1 Diary of Dreams
  • 1 Disdainful Stroke
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dreams of Laguna
  • 1 Eden, Seat of the Sanctum
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Gogo, Master of Mimicry
  • 1 Halimar Depths
  • 1 Hammerhead Tyrant
  • 1 Highspire Bell-Ringer
  • 1 Hraesvelgr of the First Brood
  • 1 Ice Magic
  • 1 Illusory Ambusher
  • 27 Island
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Leyline of Transformation
  • 1 Living Lies of Loki
  • 1 Loki, Lord of Misrule
  • 1 Magic Damper
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mind's Dilation
  • 1 Minn, Wily Illusionist
  • 1 Murmuring Mystic
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Observed Stasis
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Overlord of the Floodpits
  • 1 Perilous Research
  • 1 Phantasmal Image
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Portent
  • 1 Potioner's Trove
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Spirit Water Revival
  • 1 Strategic Planning
  • 1 Sublime Epiphany
  • 1 Super Intelligence
  • 1 Swallowed by Leviathan
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Telling Time
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The Dawning Archaic
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thirst for Meaning
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Torrential Gearhulk
  • 1 Valeria Richards, Precocious
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wisdom of Ages
  • 1 Wizard Class
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Y'shtola Rhul