The Toymaker’s Terror by Elaya

Format: Commander

Commander: The Celestial Toymaker

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Esper control deck uses The Celestial Toymaker as both card advantage and incremental drain engine. It attacks with the Toymaker to create face-up/face-down piles, then stacks additional pile and guess effects like Curator of Destinies, Intrude on the Mind, Jace, Architect of Thought, and Gollum to trigger the end-step drain for 2 life per effect. Pillow-fort pieces Ghostly Prison and Propaganda buy time while value creatures Archon of Cruelty and Genesis of the Daleks provide board presence. Wound Reflection doubles all life loss to close games. The deck has no infinite combo and wins through repeated attacks, drain triggers, and combat damage from tokens and big creatures.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Brotherhood Regalia
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul
  • 1 Curator of Destinies
  • 1 Death in Heaven
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fractured Identity
  • 1 Genesis of the Daleks
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gods Willing
  • 1 Gollum, Scheming Guide
  • 1 Great Intelligence's Plan
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Intrude on the Mind
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jace, Architect of Thought
  • 1 Languish
  • 1 Lantern of Revealing
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Paper
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Celestial Toymaker
  • 1 The Council of Four
  • 1 The Key to the Vault
  • 1 The Pandorica
  • 1 The Toymaker's Trap
  • 1 This Is How It Ends
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Time Wipe
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Wound Reflection
  • 1 Zombify