Dane AI Clonespeed

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ever-Changing 'Dane

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

The Ever-Changing 'Dane leads a three-color reanimator-aristocrats deck that uses graveyard stacking and cheap reanimation to cheat high-impact creatures into play. The primary win is a deterministic loop involving Karmic Guide, Sun Titan, and Kaya's Ghostform with a sacrifice outlet; Cruel Celebrant converts each death into life loss, killing all opponents. Before the loop comes together, Archon of Cruelty, Ashen Rider, Gray Merchant, and Kokusho generate card advantage and drain life. The Dane is a flexible backup sacrifice outlet and clone, useful for attack and activated-ability copies, but not required for the combo. The deck's resilience comes from heavy recursion and a handful of one-mana save effects.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Activated Sleeper
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Ashen Rider
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Body Double
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clever Impersonator
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Diluvian Primordial
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Idyllic Beachfront
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirror Image
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Obscura Storefront
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Phyrexian Delver
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sidisi, Undead Vizier
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Ever-Changing 'Dane
  • 1 Thirst for Discovery
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unburial Rites
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Woe Strider