New Untitled Deck by user2991965

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ancient One

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This Dimir deck is built around The Ancient One, utilizing rapid self-mill and looting to achieve Descend 8 by Turn 3–4. Once active, the 2-mana 8/8 commander applies immediate combat pressure alongside unblockability and haste equipment like Lightning Greaves and Whispersilk Cloak. The deck supplements commander damage with an efficient reanimation package, using cards like Reanimate and Animate Dead to cheat out game-warping threats such as Toxrill, the Corrosive and Hullbreaker Horror. Robust interaction, including Force of Will, Snuff Out, and Counterspell, protects the board while disrupting opposing development. Additional asymmetric lock potential exists through Notion Thief or Narset, Parter of Veils paired with Windfall. The deck reliably establishes assembly and critical onset on Turn 4, finishing opponents around Turn 7 across three response cycles. While susceptible to blanket graveyard hate like Rest in Peace, versatile answers and redundant mill engines provide resilience and consistent mid-game dominance.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Academy Ruins
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Baleful Strix
• 1 Bolas's Citadel
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Chrome Mox
• 1 Codex Shredder
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conjurer's Bauble
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Crashing Drawbridge
• 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
• 1 Damnation
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Deceit
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Dreadwing Scavenger
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Force of Will
• 1 Gitaxian Probe
• 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
• 1 Golbez, Crystal Collector
• 1 Grim Monolith
• 1 Horrid Shadowspinner
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 10 Island
• 1 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound
• 1 Jace, the Perfected Mind
• 1 Lantern of Insight
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
• 1 Looter il-Kor
• 1 Magus of the Bazaar
• 1 Manifold Key
• 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1 Mishra's Bauble
• 1 Mission Briefing
• 1 Muddle the Mixture
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Notion Thief
• 1 Perpetual Timepiece
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Psychic Frog
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Resculpt
• 1 River of Tears
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spark Double
• 1 Spellseeker
• 1 Spire of Industry
• 1 Stifle
• 1 Strixhaven Stadium
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 9 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Tainted Isle
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Tarnished Citadel
• 1 The Ancient One
• 1 The Black Gate
• 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
• 1 Training Grounds
• 1 Trinket Mage
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Voltaic Key
• 1 Whispersilk Cloak
• 1 Windfall
• 1 Wishclaw Talisman