Lord Xander by user6684033

Format: Commander

Commander: Lord Xander, the Collector

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This Grixis deck blends a control and mill attrition strategy with potent, compact combo finishes. Commanded by Lord Xander, the Collector, the list can threaten devastating asymmetric resource destruction—stripping hands, libraries, and permanents if cast late. However, its primary clock does not rely on its seven-mana commander. Instead, the deck utilizes efficient mana rocks and tutors like Step Through, Gamble, Diabolic Tutor, and Dark Petition to assemble rapid game-ending combos: the format-defining Thassa's Oracle plus Demonic Consultation win, or the infinite mill and life-drain loop of Duskmantle Guildmage and Mindcrank. A robust defensive shell featuring spot removal like Terminate and Chaos Warp, versatile sweepers such as Blasphemous Act and Crux of Fate, and tax pieces like Propaganda and Ashiok, Dream Render stalls aggressive opponents. With Kess, Dissident Mage providing graveyard recursion and card advantage, the deck transitions smoothly from board control into an immediate, non-interactive same-turn victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Cormela, Glamour Thief
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Dark Petition
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fleet Swallower
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Grixis Panorama
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jace, the Perfected Mind
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins
  • 1 Keening Stone
  • 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
  • 1 Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
  • 1 Lord Xander, the Collector
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Nightmares and Daydreams
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Step Through
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Terisian Mindbreaker
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Underground River