Clone Wars by ICEMAN_CL_24

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ever-Changing 'Dane

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper aristocrats and reanimator strategy commanded by The Ever-Changing 'Dane. The game plan focuses on casting high-impact creatures with powerful death triggers, such as the Kamigawa spirit dragons (Kokusho, the Evening Star, Yosei, the Morning Star, Ao, the Dawn Sky) and the Cavalier cycle, and then using Dane's ability to sacrifice them for one mana. Sacrificing these creatures triggers their death abilities while transforming Dane into a functional copy with enhanced stats. The deck leverages recursion engines like Luminous Broodmoth, Mikaeus, the Unhallowed, and Dawn of the Dead to loop these creatures repeatedly. Opponents face severe attrition from Grave Pact, Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, and Drannith Magistrate while their life totals are drained by Kokusho and Zulaport effects. The deck reliably begins its must-answer assault on Turn 6 and finishes games around Turn 8 through combined combat damage and life drain.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Valkyrie
  • 1 Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage
  • 1 Ao, the Dawn Sky
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Athreos, Shroud-Veiled
  • 1 Bane, Lord of Darkness
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Cavalier of Dawn
  • 1 Cavalier of Gales
  • 1 Cavalier of Night
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Cemetery Puca
  • 1 Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death
  • 1 Chamber of Manipulation
  • 1 Clone
  • 1 Coffin Queen
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dawn of the Dead
  • 1 Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
  • 1 Deathrender
  • 1 Dimir Doppelganger
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragonlord Silumgar
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Fractured Identity
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grasping Shadows // Shadows' Lair
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Heirloom Blade
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kairi, the Swirling Sky
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Keiga, the Tide Star
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Meathook Massacre II
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Mimic Vat
  • 1 Mirage Mirror
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Nihiloor
  • 1 Nim Deathmantle
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Pit of Offerings
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Skulltap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Sower of Temptation
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Ever-Changing 'Dane
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vindictive Lich
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Yomiji, Who Bars the Way
  • 1 Yosei, the Morning Star
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat