Revenge of the Ancestors by _NianChan_28

Format: Commander

Commander: Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir midrange strategy that unites Pirate tribal synergies with aggressive artifact Vehicles, led by Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains. The game plan focuses on deploying efficient Pirates and Pilots during the opening turns, then using Adéwalé to dig six cards deep for key Vehicles and crew creatures. Once assembled around Turn 4, Vehicles like The Indomitable, Skysovereign, Consul Flagship, and Adrestia apply steady aerial and trample pressure while triggering card draw engines such as Coastal Piracy. The deck controls opposing boards through spot removal, enter-the-battlefield Vehicle triggers, and asymmetric bounces like Desynchronization, which leaves its historic permanents intact. While resilient against traditional creature board wipes when Vehicles are uncrewed, the deck wins through honest combat damage across multiple combat steps rather than fast combos, aiming to close the game around Turn 9.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adrestia
  • 1 Adéwalé, Breaker of Chains
  • 1 Agna Qel'a
  • 1 Anchor to Reality
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Coastal Piracy
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Corsair Captain
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivator's Caravan
  • 1 Damocles Base, Sword of Kang
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadeye Plunderers
  • 1 Deadeye Quartermaster
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deathless Pilot
  • 1 Deluxe Dragster
  • 1 Demonic Junker
  • 1 Desynchronization
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Evacuation
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Forerunner of the Coalition
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Golden Argosy
  • 1 Greedy Freebooter
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Kitesail Larcenist
  • 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
  • 1 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
  • 1 March of the Drowned
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Merchant Raiders
  • 1 Mobilizer Mech
  • 1 Mu Yanling, Wind Rider
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Port of Karfell
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raiders' Karve
  • 1 Ramirez DePietro, Pillager
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rooftop Bypass
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Serpent's Pass
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Siren's Ruse
  • 1 Skeleton Crew
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soured Springs
  • 1 Staunch Crewmate
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Surgehacker Mech
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 The Fire Nation Drill
  • 1 The Gold Saucer
  • 1 The Indomitable
  • 1 Thopter Fabricator
  • 1 Thopter Spy Network
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Weatherlight
  • 1 Winter, Cursed Rider