Taskmaster Clones by loganparker6424

Format: Commander

Commander: Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 56

Deck overview

This Dimir deck combines explosive mill payoffs with a resilient reanimator shell, using Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic in the command zone as an adaptable copy engine for threats on the battlefield or in graveyards. The primary game plan accelerates mana through efficient rocks and rituals, fills graveyards via self-mill and targeted burial effects, and executes lethal table-wide mill via Bruvac the Grandiloquent paired with Maddening Cacophony or Terisian Mindbreaker. Simultaneously, cheap reanimation spells cheat colossal threats such as Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant, Sire of Stagnation, and Ancient Silver Dragon into play ahead of curve to suppress opposing interaction and generate overwhelming card advantage. A robust suite of counterspells, split-second protection from Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun, and targeted redirection via Spellskite defend critical combo turns. If interrupted, deep graveyard recursion ensures rapid recovery without losing operational momentum.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Silver Dragon
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archive Trap
  • 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chameleon, Master of Disguise
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Deranged Assistant
  • 1 Dimir Doppelganger
  • 1 Dreadhound
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fleet Swallower
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hall of Echoes
  • 1 Hall of the Bandit Lord
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Kitsune's Technique
  • 1 Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phantasmal Image
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
  • 1 Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sire of Stagnation
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Superior Spider-Man
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic
  • 1 Terisian Mindbreaker
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Watery Grave