The Ancient One by Jd6370

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ancient One

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Dimir graveyard-mill deck built around The Ancient One as a draw-mill engine and eventual 8/8 beatstick. The primary plan is to fill opponents' libraries into graveyards, using Bruvac the Grandiloquent to multiply every mill, and to win either through the Bloodchief Ascension + Mindcrank exponential loop or Bruvac + Fleet Swallower. A deep reanimation core turns any graveyard into battlefield threats, with Blightsteel Colossus, Archon of Cruelty, and Galactus as fallback finishing. There is no hidden commander; Bruvac plays that role functionally. The deck is flexible but lacks cheap artifact removal and protective countermagic, so it prefers to win before opponents can interact with the graveyard.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Silver Dragon
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Archpriest of Shadows
  • 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
  • 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Doomed Necromancer
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fleet Swallower
  • 1 Galactus, Devourer of Worlds
  • 1 Guiltfeeder
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Makeshift Mannequin
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Obsessive Stitcher
  • 1 Oubliette
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Pathrazer of Ulamog
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restart Sequence
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Starwinder
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic
  • 1 Temporal Trespass
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 The Dawning Archaic
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wrexial, the Risen Deep