Kefka, Court of the Crimson Mage (copy) by hottesthead

Format: Commander

Commander: Norman Osborn // Green Goblin

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis discard, wheel, and reanimator strategy led by Norman Osborn // Green Goblin. In the early turns, it deploys cheap looting enablers and its unblockable commander to sculpt the hand and load the graveyard with high-impact cards. Once transformed into Green Goblin, the commander grants nonland cards in the graveyard mayhem and reduces their casting costs by {2}, turning the graveyard into an accessible, discounted hand. The deck leverages discard engines like Waste Not and Tinybones, Trinket Thief to build resource disparity while pressuring opponents' hands. It converts this setup into a decisive win on Turn 6 by pairing mass draw spells like Peer into the Abyss or wheels with life-loss payoffs like Psychosis Crawler, Nekusar, the Mindrazer, or an infinite draw loop via transformed Kefka, Ruler of Ruin.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Along the Crooked Way
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashling, Rekindled // Ashling, Rimebound
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Call to the Netherworld
  • 1 Capital City
  • 1 Carnage, Crimson Chaos
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Cinder Barrens
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit Pylons
  • 1 Dark Withering
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Eden, Seat of the Sanctum
  • 1 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld
  • 1 Entropic Battlecruiser
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Forgotten Creation
  • 1 Garruk, Veiled Butcher
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Geth's Grimoire
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert
  • 1 Invert Polarity
  • 8 Island
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
  • 1 Laughing Mad
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Megrim
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Naktamun Lorespinner // Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nekusar, the Mindrazer
  • 1 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin
  • 1 Oscorp Industries
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Perpetual Timepiece
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Rakdos Guildgate
  • 1 Rankle, Master of Pranks
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Restless Reef
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rush of Dread
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Shadow of the Goblin
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Sinister Hideout
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Symbiote Spider-Man
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Tinybones Joins Up
  • 1 Tinybones, Trinket Thief
  • 1 Tormenting Voice
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Y'shtola Rhul