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Format: Commander

Commander: Queza, Augur of Agonies

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper draw-and-drain control strategy helmed by Queza, Augur of Agonies. The primary game plan revolves around leveraging Esper's premier suite of spot removal and sweepers to stabilize the board during the early turns while establishing mana rocks and passive card advantage engines. Once Queza is deployed, every draw step, cantrip, and burst draw spell turns into life gain for the pilot and direct life loss for opponents. Synergistic payoffs like Teferi's Ageless Insight, Psychosis Crawler, and Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel rapidly amplify this card velocity into decisive life swings, while token generators like Shark Typhoon and Ominous Seas provide formidable blockers and secondary combat threats. Backed by countermagic and targeted exile effects, the deck grinds down opposing life totals while maintaining high life padding.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Celestial Colonnade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Council's Judgment
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Ambition
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Ertai Resurrected
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Get Lost
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Crescendo
  • 1 Great Hall of the Citadel
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lingering Souls
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Martial Coup
  • 1 Memory Deluge
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel
  • 1 Occult Epiphany
  • 1 Ominous Seas
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Restless Anchorage
  • 1 Secure the Wastes
  • 1 Shark Typhoon
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Skrelv's Hive
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Staff of the Storyteller
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sunfall
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
  • 1 Toluz, Clever Conductor
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 White Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Windfall