Gift of Ruin — Jon Irenicus Dimir Donate by TheAceWheelie

Format: Commander

Commander: Jon Irenicus, Shattered One

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Jon Irenicus turns the deck's drawbacks into weapons: each end step you hand an opponent a high-power or evasive creature, goad it, make it unsacrificeable, and draw whenever it attacks. The primary plan is a slow multiplayer war of attrition led by Archfiend of the Dross's four-upkeep oil clock, Blighted Agent's poison, and unblockable demons such as Evil Eye of Urborg. Secondary paths are control (counters, removal, Propaganda, No Mercy) and mana-hungry X spells (Exsanguinate, Torment of Hailfire) to clean up after donated creatures have drained life totals. There is no second face or hidden commander; Jon is the unmistakable engine, and every non-commander card supports his donate-goad-draw loop.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of the Dross
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blighted Agent
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crawlspace
  • 1 Creeping Tar Pit
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Demonic Taskmaster
  • 1 Desecration Elemental
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dissipation Field
  • 1 Drinker of Sorrow
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Ebonblade Reaper
  • 1 Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore
  • 1 Evil Eye of Urborg
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fateful Handoff
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flesh Reaver
  • 1 Ghoulish Impetus
  • 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
  • 1 Greater Harvester
  • 1 Grid Monitor
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Master of the Feast
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Negator
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Impetus
  • 1 Puca's Mischief
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rust Elemental
  • 1 Shifting Grift
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steel Golem
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Wretched Anurid
  • 1 Wrong Turn