magar by travis.Rodriguez1

Format: Commander

Commander: Magar of the Magic Strings

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

Magar of the Magic Strings commands a powerful Rakdos spell-reanimator strategy that cheats monumental instants and sorceries into play as 3/3 creature puppets. The deck circumvents high mana costs by discarding or entombing game-ending spells such as Breach the Multiverse and Savage Beating, then animating them with Magar for just three mana. Once these animated spells connect in combat, they cast full copies of themselves without paying mana costs. The primary win condition loops infinite combat steps through Savage Beating or the backup combo of Combat Celebrant and Rionya, Fire Dancer. Supported by dense low-cost rummaging, targeted graveyard tutors, and diverse evasion equipment like Whispersilk Cloak and Key to the City, the deck consistently sets up lethal combat triggers by Turn 5. Efficient removal like Fire Covenant and Bolt Bend keeps the board clear and protects key pieces, making Magar a resilient and explosive threat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Aether Hub
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Army of the Damned
  • 1 Azra Oddsmaker
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Bedlam
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Cathartic Reunion
  • 1 Collector's Vault
  • 1 Combat Celebrant
  • 1 Come Back Wrong
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Truths
  • 1 Currency Converter
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Trapper
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Diresight
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Enduring Courage
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fear of Missing Out
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fevered Suspicion
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Gemstone Mine
  • 1 Grab the Prize
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Hit the Mother Lode
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Kill! Maim! Burn!
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana's Triumph
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Magar of the Magic Strings
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Mire in Misery
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Oriq Loremage
  • 1 Peat Bog
  • 1 Pentad Prism
  • 1 Perpetual Timepiece
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Rionya, Fire Dancer
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Savage Beating
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sonic Screwdriver
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 1 Survivors' Encampment
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 Thieves' Tools
  • 1 Thran Quarry
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Tormenting Voice
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Vicious Rumors
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Vona's Hunger
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Worst Fears
  • 1 Zephyr Boots