Heads or Tails? by Nephilim

Format: Commander

Commander: Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom and Okaun, Eye of Chaos

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 23

Deck overview

The deck centers on the partner commanders Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom and Okaun, Eye of Chaos. Their beginning-of-combat triggers turn coin flips into cards and temporary power doubling. The intended game plan is to ramp, deploy both commanders, improve the odds with Krark's Thumb, and attack with a rapidly growing Okaun, Eye of Chaos. Tavern Scoundrel, Chance Encounter, Fiery Gambit, and Yusri, Fortune's Flame add more coin-flip payoffs. The deck also has a powerful but incomplete combo in Grim Monolith and Power Artifact, which produces infinite colorless mana without a reliable game-ending outlet. Its main weaknesses are expensive setup, random outcomes, combat dependence, and sparse protection. It can create impressive turns and large attacks, but its ordinary plan does not reliably eliminate all three opponents or establish a lock. It is best treated as a high-variance casual engine deck rather than a competitive Commander list.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Battle Hymn
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Body of Knowledge
  • 1 Boompile
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chance Encounter
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Edgar, King of Figaro
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Fiery Gambit
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Fire Diamond
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Frenetic Efreet
  • 1 Game of Chaos
  • 1 Goblin Traprunner
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Iron Myr
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Krark's Thumb
  • 1 Krark, the Thumbless
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirror March
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Visionary
  • 1 Okaun, Eye of Chaos
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Palinchron
  • 1 Palladium Myr
  • 1 Plague Myr
  • 1 Planar Chaos
  • 1 Power Artifact
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Reiterate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Silver Myr
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squee's Revenge
  • 1 Stella Lee, Wild Card
  • 1 Stitch in Time
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 Tavern Scoundrel
  • 1 The Gold Saucer
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yusri, Fortune's Flame
  • 1 Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom