Control low 3 by user7232098

Format: Commander

Commander: Emet-Selch of the Third Seat

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir control strategy built around Emet-Selch of the Third Seat. Its game plan revolves around loading the graveyard with high-utility instants and sorceries through looting creatures such as Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator, Likeness Looter, and Rona, Herald of Invasion. Once Emet-Selch is deployed, incidental life-loss effects allow the deck to recast spells directly from the graveyard at a discounted rate on each player's turn. It maintains table control with efficient interaction like Countersquall, Drown in the Loch, and Toxic Deluge. As the game transitions into the late game, it pivots to overwhelming advantage via Breach the Multiverse, mass reanimation, or massive mana production with Lord of the Forsaken feeding a lethal Exsanguinate. The deck balances card advantage with board management while maximizing spell velocity.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baral's Expertise
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot
  • 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Countersquall
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul
  • 1 Currency Converter
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Diresight
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Guildless Commons
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Horizon of Progress
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Kang Dynasty
  • 1 Kitsa, Otterball Elite
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Likeness Looter
  • 1 Lord of the Forsaken
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Neerdiv, Devious Diver
  • 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 PuPu UFO
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Riddles in the Dark
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Riptide Laboratory
  • 1 Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Semblance Anvil
  • 1 Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Villainous Wrath
  • 1 Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Weather Maker
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Withering Torment