5_Investigate now I steal by user5665719

Format: Commander

Commander: Lonis, Cryptozoologist

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This Lonis, Cryptozoologist deck focuses on generating an overwhelming number of Clue and artifact tokens through creature deployments and investigate triggers. The primary strategy revolves around establishing Lonis on Turn 2, ramping into synergistic value engines like Academy Manufactor, Jaheira, Friend of the Forest, or Tireless Tracker by Turn 4, and accumulating a massive board of artifact tokens. Once a critical mass of Clues is assembled, the deck converts these utility tokens into lethal combat damage using mass animation finishers such as Cyberdrive Awakener, overloaded Rise and Shine, or Tangletrove Kelp on Turn 6. In addition to combat overruns, the deck leverages potent utility engines like Urza, Lord High Artificer and Junk Winder to generate explosive mana and lock down opposing boards. Supported by efficient countermagic and protection spells, the deck consistently outvalues the table through repeatable card draw and closes games with decisive, wide evasive swings.

Decklist (105 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Briarbridge Patrol
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Elven Warhounds
  • 1 Erdwal Illuminator
  • 1 Ethereal Investigator
  • 1 Five Hundred Year Diary
  • 1 Forensic Gadgeteer
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gomazoa
  • 1 Graf Mole
  • 1 Hadana's Climb // Winged Temple of Orazca
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Illusionist's Bracers
  • 1 Inspiring Statuary
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
  • 1 Junk Winder
  • 1 Kappa Cannoneer
  • 1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
  • 1 Kitchen
  • 1 Lithoform Engine
  • 1 Lonis, Cryptozoologist
  • 1 Lonis, Genetics Expert
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Manifold Key
  • 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
  • 1 Metamorphose
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mirrorpool
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Ongoing Investigation
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patriar's Seal
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 1 Piper Wright, Publick Reporter
  • 1 Primal Vigor
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rings of Brighthearth
  • 1 Rise and Shine
  • 1 Run Aground
  • 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Senator Peacock
  • 1 Shimmer Dragon
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Spidersilk Armor
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Tamiyo's Journal
  • 1 Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar
  • 1 Tangletrove Kelp
  • 1 Teferi, Timeless Voyager
  • 1 Temporal Spring
  • 1 Tempting Licid
  • 1 Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh
  • 1 Thawing Glaciers
  • 1 The Third Doctor
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 True Ancestry
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Wirewood Lodge
  • 1 Wonder