Gwafa Hazid: Everyone has a price. by Grizzleburr

Format: Commander

Commander: Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This Azorius Control deck utilizes Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer at the helm to execute a defensive pillowfort and group-hug strategy. The primary game plan revolves around erecting formidable defensive barriers with attack-taxing enchantments and creatures such as Ghostly Prison, Propaganda, Sphere of Safety, and Archon of Absolution, while pacifying individual threats using Gwafa's bribery counters. Symmetrical and opponent-reactive card engines like The Council of Four, Mangara, the Diplomat, and The Second Doctor ensure a steady flow of resources to sculpt a protective hand of counterspells and sweepers. The deck avoids traditional combat damage, instead aiming to close the game on Turn 10 through alternate win conditions, primarily Approach of the Second Sun, with Azor's Elocutors and Triskaidekaphile providing backup inevitability. While weak to non-combat combo strategies and mass enchantment removal, its dense interaction package and unyielding fort make it resilient against aggressive creature-based tables.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absorb
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Angelic Arbiter
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Absolution
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Avengers Hangar
  • 1 Azor's Elocutors
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azorius Guildgate
  • 1 Azorius Guildmage
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Baird, Steward of Argive
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Captain America, Living Legend
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curse of Verbosity
  • 1 Disenchant
  • 1 Dissipation Field
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Fog Bank
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Bastion
  • 1 Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer
  • 1 Hanna, Ship's Navigator
  • 1 Hindering Light
  • 1 Idyllic Beachfront
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Isperia, Supreme Judge
  • 1 Joined Researchers // Secret Rendezvous
  • 1 Kwain, Itinerant Meddler
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Labyrinth of Skophos
  • 1 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Martial Law
  • 1 Meandering River
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystifying Maze
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nils, Discipline Enforcer
  • 1 Norn's Annex
  • 1 Orzhov Advokist
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Patriar's Seal
  • 13 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Render Silent
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Secret Rendezvous
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Sokrates, Athenian Teacher
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphere of Safety
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Telepathy
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 The Council of Four
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 The Second Doctor
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Time Wipe
  • 1 Tranquil Cove
  • 1 Triskaidekaphile
  • 1 Unbender Tine
  • 1 Vizier of Tumbling Sands
  • 1 Wall of Denial
  • 1 Willie Lumpkin, Postman
  • 1 Windborn Muse
  • 1 Wrath of God