Memnarch by EthanMetalHeart

Format: Commander

Commander: Memnarch

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This mono-blue control deck leverages an artifact-heavy mana engine to cast and activate Memnarch, transforming opponents' permanents into artifacts and stealing them indefinitely. Dense early-game acceleration—including Sol Ring, Mind Stone, Thran Dynamo, and the Mage tutor suite—reliably establishes seven or more mana by Turn 5. The primary clock begins on Turn 6, when Memnarch begins systematically stealing opposing commanders, key value engines, and mana bases. Backing this strategy is a two-card infinite colorless mana combo between Basalt Monolith and Forsaken Monument, which fuels massive card draw through Insight Engine and enables limitless ability activations. An extensive protection package featuring Spellskite, Trophy Mage-accessible equipment, and efficient countermagic shields Memnarch during vulnerable setup turns. If the commander is answered or suppressed, the deck pivots seamlessly to independent high-power beatdown with Myr Battlesphere, Metalwork Colossus, and Inkwell Leviathan, maintaining board control through asymmetric bounce spells and persistent resource denial.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Annul
  • 1 Baral's Expertise
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Castle Vantress
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Darksteel Monolith
  • 1 Darksteel Plate
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Distorting Wake
  • 1 Eldritch Immunity
  • 1 Emissary Escort
  • 1 Energy Chamber
  • 1 Engulf the Shore
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Faerie Mechanist
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foil
  • 1 Forsaken Monument
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Giggling Skitterspike
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Halimar Depths
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 Inkwell Leviathan
  • 1 Insight Engine
  • 21 Island
  • 1 Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
  • 1 Long-Term Plans
  • 1 Memnarch
  • 1 Metalwork Colossus
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Myr Battlesphere
  • 1 Myr Landshaper
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Null Elemental Blast
  • 1 Omen Hawker
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Override
  • 1 Palladium Myr
  • 1 Phyrexian Revoker
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Rise of the Eldrazi
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sanctuary Blade
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Silver Myr
  • 1 Sleight of Hand
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Steel Hellkite
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Steel Sabotage
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Sudden Substitution
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tectonic Edge
  • 1 The Enigma Jewel // Locus of Enlightenment
  • 1 Thoughtcast
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Torrential Gearhulk
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Treasure Mage
  • 1 Trinket Mage
  • 1 Trophy Mage
  • 1 Veilstone Amulet
  • 1 Volatile Fault
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak