Doink by user3101488

Format: Commander

Commander: Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck executes a focused Mono-Blue Poison Tempo strategy led by Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive. By ensuring that creatures with power or toughness 1 or less cannot be blocked, the commander transforms modest infect and toxic creatures—such as Blighted Agent, Ichorclaw Myr, and Plague Myr—into unblockable poison delivery systems. Once poison counters are distributed across the table, the deck transitions into a compounding proliferate engine powered by Inexorable Tide, Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus, and Flux Channeler. Combat saboteurs double as card advantage engines through Curiosity and Coastal Piracy, keeping hand sizes full of cheap interaction and counterspells. The deck bypasses standard 40-life pools entirely, aiming to defeat all three opponents simultaneously through lethal poison accumulation by turn 8. While inherently vulnerable to mass damage-based sweepers targeting low-toughness creatures, its reliance on permanent poison counters and redundant flyers allows it to close games reliably without needing infinite combos.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Blade of Selves
  • 1 Blighted Agent
  • 1 Bring the Ending
  • 1 Cephalid Facetaker
  • 1 Coastal Piracy
  • 1 Contentious Plan
  • 1 Corrupted Conscience
  • 1 Corrupted Resolve
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Dreamtide Whale
  • 1 Dune Mover
  • 1 Esior, Wardwing Familiar
  • 1 Experimental Augury
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flux Channeler
  • 1 Glistening Sphere
  • 1 Guildpact Informant
  • 1 Ichorclaw Myr
  • 1 Inexorable Tide
  • 1 Inkmoth Nexus
  • 30 Island
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lonely Sandbar
  • 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirrex
  • 1 Mischievous Catgeist // Catlike Curiosity
  • 1 Mistblade Shinobi
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Myr Convert
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Necropede
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Neurok Commando
  • 1 Phyrexian Digester
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Plague Myr
  • 1 Prologue to Phyresis
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Prosthetic Injector
  • 1 Quietus Spike
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Reject Imperfection
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scroll Thief
  • 1 Serum Snare
  • 1 Skyship Plunderer
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Compleation
  • 1 Steady Progress
  • 1 Stolen Identity
  • 1 Strixhaven Stadium
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thrummingbird
  • 1 Viral Drake