clagar by user9521322

Format: Commander

Commander: Marneus Calgar

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 88

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized competitive Esper midrange and combo build commanded by Marneus Calgar. It leverages high-velocity fast mana, universal black tutors, and efficient card draw engines to execute a Turn 3 Thassa's Oracle victory via Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact. The deck controls table pacing using asymmetric stax pieces such as Drannith Magistrate and Opposition Agent, which slow down opposing turbo strategies without hindering its own development. A rich suite of protective spells including Silence, Grand Abolisher, and free countermagic ensures that combo attempts resolve through opposing interaction. When early wins are contested, Marneus Calgar acts as a potent value engine in the command zone, turning token generation from cards like Smothering Tithe and Orcish Bowmasters into continuous card draw to grind into secondary combo lines.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Angel's Grace
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Banishing Knack
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Containment Priest
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gilded Drake
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marneus Calgar
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mnemonic Betrayal
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pollywog Prodigy
  • 1 Power Artifact
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Retraction Helix
  • 1 Rev, Tithe Extractor
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Time Sieve
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman