Hidetsugu's and Kairi's black magic by _fredo

Format: Commander

Commander: Hidetsugu and Kairi

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This Dimir spells-matter deck is helmed by Hidetsugu and Kairi, a flying 5/4 whose ETB draws three and stacks the library, and whose death trigger exiles the top card - draining an opponent for its mana value and free-casting it if it's an instant or sorcery. The deck weaponizes that death trigger with a recursion package (Kaya's Ghostform, Supernatural Stamina, Undying Malice, Malakir Rebirth) to repeatedly chain extra-turn spells like Time Stretch, Expropriate, Nexus of Fate, and Temporal Mastery. Bloodletter of Aclazotz doubles the drain, turning a high-mana-value exile into lethal. A secondary, commander-independent win is the Naru Meha, Master Wizard infinite-clone loop with Fated Infatuation, Rite of Replication, Quasiduplicate, and Self-Reflection. The deck plays as a value/control pile that assembles a mid-game kill through extra turns or infinite Wizards.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 Aminatou's Augury
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Beacon of Unrest
  • 1 Blade of Selves
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cast-Off Consort
  • 1 Clone Legion
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Connive // Concoct
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curtains' Call
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Expropriate
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fated Infatuation
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
  • 1 Hidetsugu and Kairi
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marvo, Deep Operative
  • 1 Mnemonic Deluge
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Naru Meha, Master Wizard
  • 1 Necromantic Selection
  • 1 Nexus of Fate
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Phantasmal Image
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Quasiduplicate
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rise of the Eldrazi
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Season of Weaving
  • 1 See Double
  • 1 Self-Reflection
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sublime Epiphany
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Temporal Mastery
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Time Stretch
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Will of the Temur