The Jester's Dance by wakenthefallen

Format: Commander

Creator: wakenthefallen

Commander: The Madcap Jester

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis theft-and-control strategy helmed by The Madcap Jester, which converts opposing library exile into an expansive second hand. Supported by an efficient 2-CMC ramp suite and premium interaction, the deck establishes board safety early using attack taxes like Propaganda and severe creature punishment from Tainted Aether. Once the commander hits the battlefield, cards such as Tasha's Hideous Laughter, Ensnared by the Mara, and Wand of Wonder exile large swathes of opposing decks, allowing you to cast their most impactful spells using any color of mana. An elite suite of free defensive spells—including Deflecting Swat, Deadly Rollick, and Mindbreak Trap—shields your engine while disrupting opposing strategies. Victory is achieved either by depleting libraries via repeated exile and Bitter Ordeal gravestorm or by turning opponents' own combo pieces and heavy hitters against them.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Backlash
  • 1 Bitter Ordeal
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Collective Restraint
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commandeer
  • 1 Cunning Rhetoric
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkness
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delirium
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Ensnared by the Mara
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flame of Anor
  • 1 Galvanic Iteration
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Illusionist's Gambit
  • 1 Increasing Vengeance
  • 1 Inside Information
  • 1 Invert Polarity
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jester's Cap
  • 1 Jester's Scepter
  • 1 Koskun Falls
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Reflection
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Reverberate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sadistic Sacrament
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Snapback
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spirebluff Canal
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sudden Substitution
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Aether
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 Tasha, the Witch Queen
  • 1 Tempt with Mayhem
  • 1 The Madcap Jester
  • 1 Thundering Falls
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Twincast
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Volcanic Offering
  • 1 Wand of Wonder
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Xander's Lounge
  • 1 You Find Some Prisoners