The Mothfather by GingerGnome

Format: Commander

Commander: The Wise Mothman

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 69

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Sultai combo-control deck commanded by The Wise Mothman. It blends efficient mill and +1/+1 counter engines with compact, game-ending combos. The primary strategy utilizes low-cost mana dorks and rocks to establish an early mana advantage, quickly deploying continuous card draw engines like Rhystic Study and Mystic Remora. The deck seeks to assemble the Mindcrank and Duskmantle Guildmage or Bloodchief Ascension infinite mill and drain loops by Turn 4. In parallel, it supports an alternate infinite mana engine using Bloom Tender with Freed from the Real or Pemmin's Aura to dump unbounded mana into Finale of Devastation or Syr Konrad, the Grim. A dense suite of free and efficient counterspells protects key win attempts, while cheap removal and asymmetric sweepers keep opposing commanders and aggressive boards under strict control.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Deepglow Skate
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fathom Mage
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Pemmin's Aura
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The Wise Mothman
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Winding Constrictor
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth