Optimus: Bolster + Counters by user2079400

Format: Commander

Commander: Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Jeskai artifact and +1/+1 counter engine commanded by Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader. The strategy focuses on establishing early artifact creatures, casting Optimus Prime via its cost-effective More Than Meets the Eye alternate cost, and rapidly accumulating counters through bolster and proliferate triggers. Once a wide, modified board is established, the deck transitions into lethal combat swings using powerful evasive and damage-multiplying finishers such as Herald of Secret Streams, War Machine, Avenging Arsenal, Uncivil Unrest, and Cyberdrive Awakener. Asymmetrical sweepers like Damning Verdict and Wave Goodbye clear opposing defenses while leaving the modified artifact army untouched. High redundancy among counter distributors, card draw engines like Danny Pink, and built-in commander recursion ensure the deck maintains continuous pressure through disruption and closes out games reliably by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abzan Battle Priest
  • 1 Abzan Falconer
  • 1 Akki Battle Squad
  • 1 Alibou, Ancient Witness
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arcbound Shikari
  • 1 Arcee, Sharpshooter // Arcee, Acrobatic Coupe
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Bronze Guardian
  • 1 Cayth, Famed Mechanist
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Damning Verdict
  • 1 Danny Pink
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Dusk Legion Duelist
  • 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Experimental Augury
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Goldbug, Humanity's Ally // Goldbug, Scrappy Scout
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 Inexorable Tide
  • 1 Insight Engine
  • 1 Inspirit, Flagship Vessel
  • 1 Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist // Jetfire, Air Guardian
  • 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Losheel, Clockwork Scholar
  • 1 Lux Artillery
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Lunarch
  • 11 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 One with the Machine
  • 1 Optimus Prime, Hero // Optimus Prime, Autobot Leader
  • 1 Organic Extinction
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Patrolling Peacemaker
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle
  • 1 Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer
  • 1 Requisition Raid
  • 1 Resourceful Defense
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Saheeli, Filigree Master
  • 1 Shorikai, Genesis Engine
  • 1 Slicer, Hired Muscle // Slicer, High-Speed Antagonist
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solar Array
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Surge Conductor
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 Thopter Spy Network
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Together Forever
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Uncivil Unrest
  • 1 Uthros Research Craft
  • 1 Vision Quest
  • 1 Voyage Home
  • 1 Wake the Past
  • 1 War Machine, Avenging Arsenal
  • 1 Wave Goodbye