Xanathar lanterne

Format: Commander

Commander: Xanathar, Guild Kingpin

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Xanathar, Guild Kingpin leads a Dimir control-and-theft build. The deck's main plan is to keep the board clean with counterspells, removal, and wipes, then drop Xanathar to lock out the most dangerous opponent on each of your turns and play the top card of their library. Secondary lines involve Tasha, the Witch Queen, Bribery, Dream Harvest, Outrageous Robbery, Ghost Vacuum, and Thief of Sanity to steal permanents and spells from opponents. Since there is no infinite combo or mass-token finisher, wins come from incremental commander damage and stolen threats. The deck functions without Xanathar, but becomes much weaker without his card selection and lock.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Agonizing Memories
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 Codex Shredder
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crypt Incursion
  • 1 Darkness
  • 1 Delay
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Domineering Will
  • 1 Dream Harvest
  • 1 Duskmantle, House of Shadow
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Expel from Orazca
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Gale's Redirection
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Ghost Vacuum
  • 1 Ghoulcaller's Bell
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glimmervoid
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Head Games
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Illusionist's Gambit
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Languish
  • 1 Lantern of Insight
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Manifold Insights
  • 1 Memory Lapse
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindshrieker
  • 1 Mishra's Bauble
  • 1 Misinformation
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Mistvault Bridge
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Confluence
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Outrageous Robbery
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Portent
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 PuPu UFO
  • 1 Pyxis of Pandemonium
  • 1 Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree
  • 1 Reins of Power
  • 1 Replication Technique
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Scrib Nibblers
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 See Double
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Split Decision
  • 1 Sudden Spoiling
  • 1 Sudden Substitution
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Tasha, the Witch Queen
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Time Stop
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trinket Mage
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Victory Chimes
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 Xanathar, Guild Kingpin