Instants and Sorceries (Magar) by Serein

Format: Commander

Commander: Magar of the Magic Strings

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Spellslinger Reanimator strategy piloted by Magar of the Magic Strings. The central game plan revolves around discarding devastating, high-cost instants and sorceries into the graveyard using cheap rummaging spells, then utilizing Magar's activated ability to turn those spells into 3/3 face-down creatures. When these creatures deal combat damage to an opponent, they cast full copies of the noted spells without paying their mana costs. Key payoffs include one-sided board wipes like In Garruk's Wake, overwhelming token generators like Army of the Damned, mass reanimation via Rise of the Dark Realms, and an infinite combat loop with Savage Beating. The deck relies on evasive lands and artifacts to guarantee combat connections. While highly explosive, the deck is heavily dependent on Magar and vulnerable to well-timed creature removal or graveyard exile.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Army of the Damned
• 1 Ashling, Flame Dancer
• 1 Barrage of Boulders
• 1 Battlemage's Bracers
• 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1 Bladebrand
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blood Money
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Bonus Round
• 1 Canyon Slough
• 1 Cathartic Reunion
• 1 Cinder Barrens
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Curtains' Call
• 1 Demolition Field
• 1 Disrupt Decorum
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Elemental Eruption
• 1 Ensnared by the Mara
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Explosive Singularity
• 1 Fated Return
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fiery Inscription
• 1 Final Act
• 1 Final Parting
• 1 Flick a Coin
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1 Geothermal Bog
• 1 Guttersnipe
• 1 Hex
• 1 Highway Robbery
• 1 Imodane, the Pyrohammer
• 1 In Garruk's Wake
• 1 Jagged Barrens
• 1 Join the Dead
• 1 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur
• 1 Key to the City
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Magar of the Magic Strings
• 1 Manifold Key
• 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
• 1 Mind Rot
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Mob Verdict
• 5 Mountain
• 1 Murder
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Necromantic Selection
• 1 Overwhelming Remorse
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Prisoner's Dilemma
• 1 Professor Onyx
• 1 Rakdos Carnarium
• 1 Rakdos Guildgate
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Repeated Reverberation
• 1 Restless Vents
• 1 Ripples of Undeath
• 1 Rise from the Grave
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Savage Beating
• 1 Sazacap's Brew
• 1 Shadowblood Ridge
• 1 Shatter the Source
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Strionic Resonator
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Syphon Mind
• 1 Tainted Peak
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Temple of Malice
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 Tempt with Mayhem
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Thrill of Possibility
• 1 Thriving Bluff
• 1 Thriving Moor
• 1 Thunder Salvo
• 1 Tormenting Voice
• 1 Trailblazer's Boots
• 1 Wake the Dragon
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble