I't was a trick!! by raziel_rex

Format: Commander

Commander: The First Sliver

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a specialized 5-Color combo deck designed around a deterministic cascade chain. By running 59 lands and ensuring Tibalt's Trickery is the only nonland card in the 99 with a mana value under 5, casting The First Sliver on Turn 5 automatically cascades into Trickery. The pilot targets their own commander with Trickery to counter it, immediately cheating a high-mana bomb like Apex Devastator, Maelstrom Wanderer, Atraxa, Grand Unifier, or Emergent Ultimatum into play for free. Because every other nonland card in the deck costs 5 or more mana and many feature cascade or discover abilities, resolving Trickery triggers a chain reaction of massive spells that flood the battlefield. While the deck boasts perfect combo consistency, it sacrifices early interaction and protection to preserve the cascade restriction, making it vulnerable to well-timed counterspells or rule-of-law stax effects.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aether Gale
  • 1 Aether Helix
  • 1 Aminatou's Augury
  • 1 Ancient Spring
  • 1 Annoyed Altisaur
  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Atraxa, Grand Unifier
  • 1 Aurora Phoenix
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boarding Party
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 Call Forth the Tempest
  • 1 Cascading Cataracts
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Crystal Quarry
  • 1 Dance with Calamity
  • 1 Eerie Ultimatum
  • 1 Elegant Parlor
  • 1 Emergent Ultimatum
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Enlisted Wurm
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Etherium-Horn Sorcerer
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Fevered Suspicion
  • 1 Flaming Tyrannosaurus
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Fractured Identity
  • 1 Geothermal Crevice
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hit the Mother Lode
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Ingenuity Engine
  • 1 Into the Time Vortex
  • 1 Irrigation Ditch
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
  • 1 Jetmir's Garden
  • 1 Keeper of Secrets
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Krosan Verge
  • 1 Lush Portico
  • 1 Maelstrom Archangel
  • 1 Maelstrom Colossus
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mirari's Wake
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Nalfeshnee
  • 1 Nexus of Fate
  • 1 One with the Multiverse
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Primal Command
  • 1 Quandrix, the Proof
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sakashima's Protege
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sulfur Vent
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The First Sliver
  • 1 Thundering Falls
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Time Spiral
  • 1 Tinder Farm
  • 1 Trumpeting Carnosaur
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Xander's Lounge
  • 1 Zacama, Primal Calamity
  • 1 Zagoth Triome
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground