Kicked Up n' Bricked Up by StinkyDinkles

Format: Commander

Commander: Marneus Calgar

Bracket: 5

Deck overview

Esper token-combo deck built around Marneus Calgar as both a repeatable draw engine and the primary mana outlet. The main plan is to assemble an artifact untap engine (Basalt Monolith + Forensic Gadgeteer, or Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal), generate infinite mana, then repeatedly activate Marneus to create token pairs, draw into Kambal/Zulaport-style drain and kill the table. Secondary plans use stax pieces like Drannith Magistrate and Blind Obedience to buy time, Smothering Tithe for treasure ramp, and Elspeth, Storm Slayer as a token doubler/backup engine. There is no hidden commander; the deck is built specifically around Marneus and his token-draw payoff.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Drift of Phantasms
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Forensic Gadgeteer
  • 1 Gemstone Mine
  • 1 Gleaming Bastion
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Marneus Calgar
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Monastery Mentor
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stridehangar Automaton
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat