Grand Arbiter Augustin by xMayfield

Format: Commander

Commander: Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This Azorius deck uses Grand Arbiter Augustin IV as a multipurpose tax engine, making your spells cheaper while simultaneously raising the cost of every spell your opponents cast. The primary plan is to assemble a soft prison of pillow-fort enchantments, tax creatures, and a deep counterspell suite, then resolve Azor's Elocutors and protect it for five upkeeps to win the game. Secondary paths include using Kykar's Spirit tokens and Jin-Gitaxias's spell copying to generate value, eventually closing out via creature beats or Exhibition Tidecaller's mill. The commander's cost reduction enables early deployment of key pieces, but the deck is deliberately controlling and rewards patient, interactive play rather than fast combo lines.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absorb
  • 1 Agna Qel'a
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage's Charm
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Azor's Elocutors
  • 1 Banishing Light
  • 1 Boomerang Basics
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curious Colossus
  • 1 Disdainful Stroke
  • 1 Disruptor Flute
  • 1 Disruptor of Currents
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Eddymurk Crab
  • 1 Emeritus of Truce // Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Essence Capture
  • 1 Exhibition Tidecaller
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flow State
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gods Willing
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Harmonized Trio // Brainstorm
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 19 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Keep Out
  • 1 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring
  • 1 Kykar, Zephyr Awakener
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 15 Plains
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Reject
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sleight of Hand
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spelltithe Enforcer
  • 1 Sphinx's Revelation
  • 1 Spider-Sense
  • 1 Split Up
  • 1 Stuck in Summoner's Sanctum
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Thalia, Heretic Cathar
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tragic Arrogance
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Windborn Muse
  • 1 Wisdom of Ages