The Archmage by smahon90

Format: Commander

Commander: Jodah, Archmage Eternal

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a quintessential five-color Big Mana battlecruiser build helmed by Jodah, Archmage Eternal. The central game plan focuses on spending the early turns ramping and establishing full WUBRG mana fixing through cards like Birds of Paradise, Chromatic Lantern, and Dryad of the Ilysian Grove. Once five colors are online, Jodah allows the pilot to bypass normal casting costs and cheat colossal game-ending spells into play for just five mana. The payoff suite is stacked with high-impact bombs including Apex Devastator, Omniscience, Maelstrom Wanderer, and asymmetric board wipes like In Garruk's Wake and Ruinous Ultimatum. With redundant cheat effects such as Fist of Suns and The Prismatic Bridge, the deck quickly snowballs overwhelming board presence and card advantage. While vulnerable to early spot removal targeting Jodah and clunky high-CMC opening hands, the sheer density of must-answer haymakers and robust protection engines make it an unstoppable combat juggernaut once fully operational.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archetype of Endurance
  • 1 Aurelia, the Warleader
  • 1 Avacyn's Memorial
  • 1 Benthic Anomaly
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cascading Cataracts
  • 1 Casualties of War
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Chromatic Orrery
  • 1 Circuitous Route
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dawnglade Regent
  • 1 Dire Tactics
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explosive Vegetation
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fist of Suns
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Giant Adephage
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Impervious Greatwurm
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 1 Insurrection
  • 2 Island
  • 1 It That Betrays
  • 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
  • 1 Jetmir's Garden
  • 1 Jodah, Archmage Eternal
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Leyline of the Guildpact
  • 1 Maelstrom Archangel
  • 1 Maelstrom Nexus
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mirage Mesa
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Myojin of Life's Web
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Nyxbloom Ancient
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Overflowing Insight
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Prismatic Omen
  • 1 Progenitus
  • 1 Quicksilver Amulet
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Sandwurm Convergence
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sylvan Reclamation
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Terastodon
  • 1 Thieving Amalgam
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Turbulent Springs
  • 1 Turbulent Steppe
  • 1 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Ulamog's Dreadsire
  • 1 Wizard's Retort
  • 1 Xander's Lounge
  • 1 Zacama, Primal Calamity
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground