ProxyForge: Marneus Calgar by ProxyForge

Format: Commander

Commander: Marneus Calgar

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper token-control and aristocrats strategy commanded by Marneus Calgar. It leverages low-cost, repeatable token generators such as Bitterblossom, Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff, Charismatic Conqueror, and Black Market Connections to transform every token creation event into steady card draw. Once Marneus Calgar is assembled, the deck rapidly pulls ahead in card advantage, digging into versatile removal, countermagic, and pillowfort enchantments like Ghostly Prison and Propaganda. The deck shifts to the offensive in the mid-game by deploying scaling token engines like Illustrious Wanderglyph and Elspeth, Storm Slayer, alongside potent aristocrat drain pieces including Mirkwood Bats, Marionette Apprentice, and Nadier's Nightblade. It closes games by swarming the board with buffed creature tokens and converting expendable bodies into burst life loss and Treasure via Warren Soultrader and Skullclamp.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Ascend from Avernus
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Bennie Bracks, Zoologist
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Caretaker's Talent
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Enduring Innocence
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exalted Sunborn
  • 1 Faerie Artisans
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Felidar Retreat
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Galadriel's Dismissal
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hardened Tactician
  • 1 Illustrious Wanderglyph
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring
  • 1 Lich's Relic
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marneus Calgar
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Monastery Mentor
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rest in Peace
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shorikai, Genesis Engine
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 The Theorist, Jace Beleren
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow