Trauma by user4625040

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ancient One

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This Dimir deck combines a rapid Spirit tempo shell with explosive multiplayer mill strategies and graveyard payoffs. Commanded by The Ancient One, an undercosted 8/8 that loots and fuels graveyards, the deck quickly achieves Descend 8 to turn its commander into a lethal combat threat. Symmetrical and targeted mill engines such as Court of Cunning, Maddening Cacophony, and Traumatize rapidly deplete opposing libraries while filling all graveyards with high-value creature targets. The deck leverages this setup into game-ending mass reanimation spells like Rise of the Dark Realms or executes an infinite damage loop via Bloodchief Ascension and Mindcrank. Defensive spirit synergies including Kira, Great Glass-Spinner, Rattlechains, and tap engines like Timin, Youthful Geist keep the board stable while stalling opposing attackers until the table is overwhelmed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Duneyard
  • 1 Aether Tunnel
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archive Trap
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodline Bidding
  • 1 Bond of Insight
  • 1 Breath of the Sleepless
  • 1 Cemetery Illuminator
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Cloudhoof Kirin
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Creeping Tar Pit
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Departed Deckhand
  • 1 Diamond City
  • 1 Didn't Say Please
  • 1 Dimir Infiltrator
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Ethereal Investigator
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Folio of Fancies
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Geistlight Snare
  • 1 Ghastlord of Fugue
  • 1 Ghost of Ramirez DePietro
  • 1 Ghostly Pilferer
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Gravelighter
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Jace, Memory Adept
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
  • 1 Kitsune's Technique
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mausoleum Wanderer
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mindshrieker
  • 1 Mirrorhall Mimic // Ghastly Mimicry
  • 1 Mystic Redaction
  • 1 Nebelgast Herald
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Niblis of Frost
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patrician Geist
  • 1 Port of Karfell
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Psychic Strike
  • 1 Rattlechains
  • 1 Realm of Koh
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restless Reef
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Secret Tunnel
  • 1 Serpent's Pass
  • 1 Shacklegeist
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sinister Hideout
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectral Adversary
  • 1 Spectral Sailor
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Summon Undead
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Supreme Phantom
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 The Everflowing Well // The Myriad Pools
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thought Collapse
  • 1 Timin, Youthful Geist
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Tyrite Sanctum
  • 1 Unseal the Necropolis
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive