Black☆Star by Pearfect

Format: Commander

Commander: Noctis, Heir Apparent

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This Esper deck is led by Noctis, Heir Apparent, blending Equipment Voltron lines with combat-centric Ninjutsu synergies. The core game plan revolves around deploying low-cost artifacts and evasive creatures during the early turns, establishing Noctis on Turn 3, and leveraging its combat entry trigger to attach high-impact Equipment for zero mana. Using Warp-Strike, Noctis exiles itself and re-enters tapped and unblockable on the following declare attackers step, simultaneously bypassing blocker defenses, dodging sorcery-speed removal, and auto-equipping massive armaments like Excalibur, Sword of Eden or Blackblade Reforged. The deck supports this aggression with continuous card-draw engines like Candlekeep Sage and The Blue Spirit, while silence effects such as Conqueror's Flail and Voice of Victory protect critical attack steps. Starting critical pressure on Turn 5, the deck reliably eliminates players one by one, closing out multiplayer tables by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Adaptive Omnitool
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Andúril, Flame of the West
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Basim Ibn Ishaq
  • 1 Battlefield Improvisation
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Blade of Selves
  • 1 Blade of the Oni
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buster Sword
  • 1 Candlekeep Sage
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Cid, Freeflier Pilot
  • 1 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conqueror's Flail
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Covert Technician
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Leo & Shredder
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dour Port-Mage
  • 1 Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elbrus, the Binding Blade // Withengar Unbound
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Excalibur, Sword of Eden
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fishing Gear
  • 1 Flash Photography
  • 1 Forge Anew
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Higure, the Still Wind
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Leyline Axe
  • 1 Lost Jitte
  • 1 Masterwork of Ingenuity
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Noctis, Heir Apparent
  • 1 Noctis, Prince of Lucis
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Orochi Soul-Reaver
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Pollywog Prodigy
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Puresteel Paladin
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Robe of the Archmagi
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Sigarda's Aid
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Splinter, Radical Rat
  • 1 Squall, SeeD Mercenary
  • 1 Steelshaper's Gift
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
  • 1 Sword of Hearth and Home
  • 1 Sword of Wealth and Power
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Blue Spirit
  • 1 The Key to the Vault
  • 1 The Reality Chip
  • 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
  • 1 Throat Slitter
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Umezawa's Jitte
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow