Jon Irenicus deck by btdoogan

Format: Commander

Commander: Jon Irenicus, Shattered One

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck executes a focused 'Bad Gifts' control strategy commanded by Jon Irenicus, Shattered One. The primary game plan revolves around casting undercosted creatures with severe operational drawbacks—such as Steel Golem, Desecration Elemental, Phyrexian Negator, and Rotting Regisaur—and donating them to opponents at the end step. Jon buffs these creatures with +1/+1 counters, makes them permanently goaded, and prevents them from being sacrificed. This forces opponents to attack each other while suffering devastating upkeep or cast triggers. Meanwhile, Jon draws cards whenever these owned creatures attack, steadily refilling the hand. Pillowfort cards like Propaganda and Crawlspace keep incoming combat pressure away from the pilot. The deck controls the board with cheap Dimir interaction and finishes remaining opponents through accumulated combat damage or a high-mana Torment of Hailfire.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abyssal Persecutor
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of the Dross
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Blade
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Coveted Falcon
  • 1 Crawlspace
  • 1 Curse of Verbosity
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Demonic Taskmaster
  • 1 Desecration Elemental
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Ebonblade Reaper
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore
  • 1 Evil Eye of Urborg
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flesh Reaver
  • 1 Get Out
  • 1 Greater Harvester
  • 1 Grid Monitor
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Master of the Feast
  • 1 Mocking Doppelganger
  • 1 Modify Memory
  • 1 Morkrut Necropod
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Phyrexian Negator
  • 1 Phyrexian Obliterator
  • 1 Plague Reaver
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rotting Regisaur
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steel Golem
  • 1 Sudden Substitution
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Wrong Turn