Magus X Matters by kirkzor

Format: Commander

Commander: Magus Lucea Kane

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This Magus Lucea Kane deck focuses on ramping into its commander, leveraging permanent untappers, and copying high-impact spells with X in their mana costs. The early game establishes mana rocks and utility creatures like Kiora's Follower and Vizier of Tumbling Sands. Once Lucea Kane enters the battlefield, untap abilities let her tap multiple times in a single turn, stacking delayed triggers that duplicate X-spells. The mid-game converts this mana velocity into massive battlefield presences using Genesis Wave, Apocalypse Hydra, and Hydroid Krasis, or board control via Curse of the Swine and Pest Infestation. The deck wins by overrunning the table with giant trampling creatures buffed by Kessig Wolf Run and Exponential Growth. While vulnerable to well-timed board wipes and summoning sickness delays, the sheer card advantage and duplicate bodies created by Lucea give the deck strong mid-game inevitability and high resiliency.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Alpha Brawl
• 1 Apocalypse Hydra
• 1 Awakened Awareness
• 1 Blue Sun's Twilight
• 1 Boomerang
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Curator's Ward
• 1 Curse of the Swine
• 1 Demonfire
• 1 Divide by Zero
• 1 Echoing Truth
• 1 Ecological Appreciation
• 1 Emerald Charm
• 1 Entrancing Lyre
• 1 Ephara's Dispersal
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exponential Growth
• 1 Extraordinary Journey
• 1 Ferrous Lake
• 1 Finale of Revelation
• 4 Forest
• 1 Frontier Bivouac
• 1 Genesis Wave
• 1 Goblin Offensive
• 1 Great Hall of the Citadel
• 1 Gruul Turf
• 1 Hammer of Purphoros
• 1 Hell to Pay
• 1 Here Comes a New Hero!
• 1 Hooded Hydra
• 1 Hydroid Krasis
• 1 Ioreth of the Healing House
• 7 Island
• 1 Izzet Boilerworks
• 1 Izzet Signet
• 1 Kamahl's Druidic Vow
• 1 Karplusan Forest
• 1 Kessig Wolf Run
• 1 Kiora's Follower
• 1 Lost in the Maze
• 1 Magus Lucea Kane
• 1 Mossfire Valley
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Multiple Choice
• 1 North Pole Patrol
• 1 Nyxborn Hydra
• 1 Orcish Settlers
• 1 Overflowing Basin
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Pest Infestation
• 1 Portent
• 1 Pterafractyl
• 1 Ravener
• 1 Refocus
• 1 Remand
• 1 Repulsive Mutation
• 1 Rosheen Meanderer
• 1 Rosheen, Roaring Prophet
• 1 Sapphire Charm
• 1 Saryth, the Viper's Fang
• 1 Savageborn Hydra
• 1 Shielding Plax
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Simic Growth Chamber
• 1 Simic Signet
• 1 Smellerbee, Rebel Fighter
• 1 Snapback
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soothing of Sméagol
• 1 Spectral Denial
• 1 Strength of the Tajuru
• 1 Talisman of Curiosity
• 1 Talisman of Impulse
• 1 Tectonic Edge
• 1 Temple of Abandon
• 1 Temple of Epiphany
• 1 Temple of Mystery
• 1 The Dominion Bracelet
• 1 The Rollercrusher Ride
• 1 Tidal Bore
• 1 Topiary Lecturer
• 1 Traumatic Critique
• 1 Tuktuk Rubblefort
• 1 Vivien's Arkbow
• 1 Vizier of Tumbling Sands
• 1 Void Snare
• 1 Worldsoul's Rage
• 1 Yavimaya Coast