Dee Kay’s Carnival by akabaymax

Format: Commander

Commander: Dee Kay, Finder of the Lost

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

Dee Kay, Finder of the Lost helms a Dimir artifact midrange deck centered around the Attraction mechanic from Unfinity. The deck opens a steady stream of Attractions using Dee Kay, Step Right Up, and low-cost Employee creatures. Because Attractions enter the battlefield as artifact permanents, they fuel powerful Affinity, Improvise, and artifact-scaling payoffs without requiring significant mana investment. In the early game, the deck establishes mana rocks, opens Attractions, and deploys card-advantage engines such as Golbez, Crystal Collector and Shimmer Dragon. Once a critical mass of 6-8 artifacts is reached around Turn 6, the deck converts utility permanents into lethal flying threats using Cyberdrive Awakener, an overloaded Rise and Shine, or massive life drain from Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge. Supported by countermagic, blink effects like Thassa, Deep-Dwelling, and targeted removal, the deck grinds out opponents and closes games through evasive combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 "Lifetime" Pass Holder
  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Black Hole
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Command Performance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Deadbeat Attendant
  • 1 Dee Kay, Finder of the Lost
  • 1 Demonic Junker
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Discourtesy Clerk
  • 1 Disdainful Stroke
  • 1 Displace
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dour Port-Mage
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Ebony Fly
  • 1 Fateful Discovery
  • 1 Feywild Trickster
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Golbez, Crystal Collector
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Inspiring Statuary
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Karn, Living Legacy
  • 1 Line Cutter
  • 1 Machine God's Effigy
  • 1 Mistvault Bridge
  • 1 Monitor Monitor
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Pactdoll Terror
  • 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Peter Parker's Camera
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Pixie Guide
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rise and Shine
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scientist Supreme of A.I.M.
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Seasoned Buttoneer
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Shimmer Dragon
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Step Right Up
  • 1 Stoic Rebuttal
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Supper for Spiders
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Synth Infiltrator
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge
  • 1 Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 Thought Monitor
  • 1 Thoughtcast
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Vedalken Squirrel-Whacker
  • 1 Waterbender's Restoration
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Whir of Invention
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Xenosquirrels