Baby Jail by JakesMyth

Format: Commander

Commander: Tayam, Luminous Enigma

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck is a +1/+1 counter engine built around Tayam, Luminous Enigma, aiming to generate a dense board of creatures with counters, then use Tayam's activated ability to recur cheap permanents from the graveyard, chaining value and eventually assembling a win condition. The primary game plan is to deploy a swarm of mana dorks and counter-synergy pieces (Pir, Imaginative Rascal, Winding Constrictor, Kami of Whispered Hopes), accelerate into Tayam, and use his recursion to loop Eternal Witness-like effects, generate infinite mana or infinite counters, and finish with Walking Ballista or overwhelming combat. Secondary paths include Walking Ballista with infinite mana, Song of Freyalise for a lethal trample swing, and Primal Surge to dump the entire deck. The deck is a grindy, value-oriented engine that can rebuild from wipes through its recursion suite.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandoned Air Temple
  • 1 Abzan Ascendancy
  • 1 Aegis of the Gods
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
  • 1 Archon of Emeria
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Aven Interrupter
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Basking Broodscale
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Boromir, Warden of the Tower
  • 1 Brigid, Clachan's Heart // Brigid, Doun's Mind
  • 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Concordant Crossroads
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Crystal Barricade
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Drumbellower
  • 1 Eidolon of Rhetoric
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Good-Fortune Unicorn
  • 1 Hallowed Spiritkeeper
  • 1 Horizon Canopy
  • 1 Hushwing Gryff
  • 1 Hushwood Verge
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Khalni Garden
  • 1 Kor Haven
  • 1 Krosan Restorer
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Murmuring Bosk
  • 1 Nissa, Voice of Zendikar
  • 1 Peacekeeper
  • 1 Pernicious Deed
  • 1 Pir, Imaginative Rascal
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Primal Surge
  • 1 Promise of Bunrei
  • 1 Razorverge Thicket
  • 1 Reyhan, Last of the Abzan
  • 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Skyclave Apparition
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitary Confinement
  • 1 Song of Freyalise
  • 1 Spirit of the Labyrinth
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 1 Summon: Fenrir
  • 1 Summon: Ixion
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Tayam, Luminous Enigma
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Twitching Doll
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Village Bell-Ringer
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wall of Roots
  • 1 Warden of the Grove
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Winding Constrictor
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery