Noctis by user1384236

Format: Commander

Commander: Noctis, Prince of Lucis

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 24

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper artifact midrange strategy commanded by Noctis, Prince of Lucis. The primary game plan revolves around deploying resilient artifact threats, generating card advantage through sacrifice and death triggers, and casting artifacts directly from the graveyard using Noctis's ability. Counter-manipulators like Nesting Grounds and O'aka, Traveling Merchant provide unique utility by stripping finality counters from returned permanents, effectively bypassing exile clauses. The deck grinds through the midgame using potent equipment such as Sword of Feast and Famine and Sword of Light and Shadow to pressure life totals and maintain mana tempo. Lacking fast infinite combos, it aims to outvalue opposing interaction before closing games through sustained combat steps, life drain via Al Bhed Salvagers, and heavy board-reset insurance from cards like Farewell and Ultima.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandoned Campground
  • 1 Ahriman
  • 1 Al Bhed Salvagers
  • 1 Amazing Acrobatics
  • 1 Anchovy & Banana Pizza
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashe, Princess of Dalmasca
  • 1 Avengers Hangar
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Black Mage's Rod
  • 1 Black Widow, Deadly Hunter
  • 1 Black Widow, Double Agent
  • 1 Blitzball
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Captain America's Shield
  • 1 Captain America, Living Legend
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Cloak and Dagger, Entwined
  • 1 Delivery Moogle
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Eaten Alive
  • 1 Echo, Perceptive Prodigy
  • 1 Eden, Seat of the Sanctum
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Falcon's Wing Harness
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fight On!
  • 1 Fisk Tower
  • 1 Fix What's Broken
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Futurist Forge
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Insomnia, Crown City
  • 1 Inspiring Statuary
  • 1 Instant Ramen
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Jill, Shiva's Dominant // Shiva, Warden of Ice
  • 1 Judge Magister Gabranth
  • 1 Locke Cole
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Noctis, Prince of Lucis
  • 1 O'aka, Traveling Merchant
  • 1 Phantom Train
  • 1 Phoenix Down
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Quistis Trepe
  • 1 Repurposing Bay
  • 1 Resentful Revelation
  • 1 Sandbender Scavengers
  • 1 Scholar of New Horizons
  • 1 Sharlayan, Nation of Scholars
  • 1 Sidequest: Catch a Fish // Cooking Campsite
  • 1 Sinister Hideout
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 1 Summon: Anima
  • 1 Super-Soldier Serum
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
  • 1 Sword of Light and Shadow
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Syncopate
  • 1 Technodrome
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tidus, Blitzball Star
  • 1 Treno, Dark City
  • 1 Twinblade Blessing
  • 1 Ultima
  • 1 Ultimecia, Time Sorceress // Ultimecia, Omnipotent
  • 1 University Campus
  • 1 White Auracite
  • 1 Winter Soldier, Icy Assassin
  • 1 World Map