Grand Arbiter Augustin IV 8.75 by russty

Format: Commander

Creator: russty

Commander: Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Grand Arbiter Augustin IV leads a dedicated Azorius stax and combo-control strategy designed to choke opposing resources while accelerating your own plays. The deck deploys asymmetrical tax effects, rule-setting creatures, and land disruption to stall fast tables. Once the game slows down, you leverage extensive artifact tutors like Transmute Artifact, Reshape, and Fabricate to assemble one of two lethal two-card combinations: Painter's Servant paired with Grindstone, or Rest in Peace paired with Helm of Obedience. Backed by a premier counterspell suite, protection pieces like Silence and Grand Abolisher, and powerful card engines like The One Ring, you decisively end the game under complete control.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Argivian Find
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Aven Mindcensor
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Back to Basics
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterbalance
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cursed Totem
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Delay
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Echo of Eons
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Grindstone
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Harbinger of the Seas
  • 1 Helm of Obedience
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Karn, the Great Creator
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Miscast
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overburden
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Painter's Servant
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Recurring Insight
  • 1 Reshape
  • 1 Rest in Peace
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spell Snare
  • 1 Sphere of Resistance
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tezzeret the Seeker
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Torpor Orb
  • 1 Transmute Artifact
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Winter Moon