Noctis by user1685552

Format: Commander

Commander: Noctis, Prince of Lucis

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper artifact combo-control strategy commanded by Noctis, Prince of Lucis. Noctis allows you to cast artifact spells directly from your graveyard by paying 3 life, attaching a finality counter upon entry. The deck breaks this restriction through anti-counter synergies like Solemnity, flicker effects like Displacer Kitten, and counter movers like Power Conduit and Soul Diviner. The primary win condition loops cheap or zero-cost artifacts such as Mishra's Bauble using Noctis and Solemnity, or executes traditional loops via Krark-Clan Ironworks, Scrap Trawler, and Myr Retriever. These loops generate infinite storm, mana, and life with Aetherflux Reservoir, culminating in lethal bursts of 50 damage to each opponent on Turn 5. A robust suite of tutors, recursion spells, and defensive interaction ensures consistent assembly and high resilience against interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aether Spellbomb
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Ancient Den
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Darksteel Angel
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Dispatch
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Efficient Construction
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Filigree Angel
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Golbez, Crystal Collector
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hex Parasite
  • 1 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Judgment of Alexander
  • 1 Krark-Clan Ironworks
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mirrodin Besieged
  • 1 Mishra's Bauble
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mycosynth Wellspring
  • 1 Myr Retriever
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Noctis, Prince of Lucis
  • 1 Open the Vaults
  • 1 Oriq Loremage
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Oswald Fiddlebender
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Power Conduit
  • 1 Prized Statue
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Scrap Trawler
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Smoke Bomb
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemnity
  • 1 Soul Diviner
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 The Mightstone and Weakstone
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Thief of Blood
  • 1 Thopter Foundry
  • 1 Thousand Moons Smithy // Barracks of the Thousand
  • 1 Urza, Lord Protector
  • 1 Urza, Powerstone Prodigy
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave