The Banality of Evil by user7980546

Format: Commander

Commander: Damia, Sage of Stone

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This Sultai deck is an engine-driven mill strategy powered by a dense suite of 28 Persistent Petitioners. By taking advantage of the unique rule that allows multiple copies of the card, the deck achieves exceptional consistency without needing heavy creature tutoring. The core game plan curves out multiple Advisors on the early turns, establishing the four-creature threshold by Turn 4. Because the signature activated ability taps four Advisors without using the tap symbol, newly cast Petitioners immediately contribute to milling opponents for 12 cards at instant speed. On Turn 5, the deck deploys powerful force multipliers such as Seedborn Muse, Murkfiend Liege, Intruder Alarm, or Bruvac the Grandiloquent, allowing the team to untap on each player's turn and rapidly strip 36 to 72 cards per rotation. High-end bursts from Thrumming Stone, mass hand refills from Secret Salvage, and the infinite Bloodchief Ascension plus Mindcrank combo provide decisive win conditions.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damia, Sage of Stone
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Echoing Return
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faces of the Past
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Forbid
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Intruder Alarm
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Murkfiend Liege
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pack Hunt
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 28 Persistent Petitioners
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Quest for Renewal
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Secret Salvage
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Thrumming Stone
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wood Sage
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zagoth Triome
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer