does the table like me? by user2808204

Format: Commander

Commander: Marneus Calgar

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Esper token deck is helmed by Marneus Calgar, who turns every token entering into a draw trigger. The primary game plan is to generate a critical mass of tokens through creatures like Adeline, Resplendent Cathar and Sicarian Infiltrator, multiply them with doublers such as Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation and Bard, King of Dale, then win either through combat pumps (Cathars' Crusade, Knowledge Is Power) or incremental drain from Mirkwood Bats, Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim, and Corpse Knight. The deck also contains several infinite-mana loops involving Ashnod's Altar, Pitiless Plunderer, and Marneus Calgar, allowing it to draw the entire library and drain the table. A robust protection suite and Lurrus of the Dream-Den recursion round out the strategy.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Academy Manufactor
• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Bard, King of Dale
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Cathars' Crusade
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Cecil Harvey
• 1 Chasm Skulker
• 1 Clever Concealment
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Corpse Knight
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deserted Beach
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
• 1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
• 1 Exalted Sunborn
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Flusterstorm
• 1 For the Emperor!
• 1 Fracture
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Gleaming Splendor
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Grand Abolisher
• 1 Grim Hireling
• 1 Haliya, Guided by Light
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Hour of Reckoning
• 1 Inkshield
• 1 Inquisitorial Rosette
• 4 Island
• 1 Isochron Scepter
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
• 1 Kaya, Geist Hunter
• 1 Knowledge Is Power
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
• 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
• 1 Marneus Calgar
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Monologue Tax
• 1 Mystic Gate
• 1 Nadir Kraken
• 1 Negate
• 1 Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Pitiless Plunderer
• 6 Plains
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Port Town
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Proft's Eidetic Memory
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Sicarian Infiltrator
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Smothering Tithe
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Space Marine Devastator
• 1 Strix Serenade
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Tataru Taru
• 1 The Golden Throne
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 Thunderhawk Gunship
• 1 Training Grounds
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Unstoppable Plan
• 1 Vault of Champions
• 1 Vexilus Praetor
• 1 Voice of Victory
• 1 Warren Soultrader
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Windswept Heath