New Untitled Deck by Slurble

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ancient One

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a dedicated Dimir reanimator strategy piloted by The Ancient One. The game plan revolves around leveraging cheap looting creatures, surveil effects, and Buried Alive to stock the graveyard with high-mana threats such as Ulamog's Dreadsire, Ancient Stone Idol, and Phyrexian Triniform. Discarding massive mana-value cards like Shadow of Mortality rapidly enables the commander's Descend 8 condition, unlocking an 8/8 beater for just two mana. The deck then uses efficient reanimation spells like Victimize and Coiling Rebirth to cheat game-ending permanents into play as early as Turn 4. While the deck generates high combat pressure and features built-in death triggers to punish removal, its disruption suite is largely sorcery-speed and it relies on combat damage to eliminate each opponent in sequence.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Excavation
  • 1 Ancient Stone Idol
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artisan of Kozilek
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brinelin, the Moon Kraken
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chupacabra Echo
  • 1 Coiling Rebirth
  • 1 Collector's Vault
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confounding Riddle
  • 1 Connive // Concoct
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Damnable Pact
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Diluvian Primordial
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Discovery // Dispersal
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Dusk Mangler
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extinguisher Battleship
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Ghostly Pilferer
  • 1 Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kiora, the Rising Tide
  • 1 Likeness Looter
  • 1 Lotleth Giant
  • 1 Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
  • 1 Merfolk Looter
  • 1 Meteor Golem
  • 1 Mirrorshell Crab
  • 1 Monastery Siege
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Necrogoyf
  • 1 Nemesis of Reason
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Obsessive Stitcher
  • 1 Otherworldly Gaze
  • 1 Overseer of the Damned
  • 1 Perpetual Timepiece
  • 1 Phyrexian Triniform
  • 1 Port of Karfell
  • 1 Rags // Riches
  • 1 Restless Reef
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Shadow of Mortality
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Starwinder
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Indulgence
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Terisian Mindbreaker
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 The Cauldron of Eternity
  • 1 The Everflowing Well // The Myriad Pools
  • 1 Thought Courier
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Ulamog's Dreadsire
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator
  • 1 Wail of the Forgotten