Mage Masher by Gigawatts24

Format: Commander

Commander: Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 24

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos spellslinger and burn strategy commanded by Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied. The primary game plan revolves around deploying Kuja on Turn 4, generating 0/1 Wizard tokens on each end step, and utilizing cheap noncreature spells to burn all opponents simultaneously. Once four Wizards are assembled, Kuja transforms into Trance Kuja, doubling all damage dealt by Wizards. The deck amplifies this group-slug pressure using force multipliers like Dictate of the Twin Gods, Hawkeye, Young Avenger, and Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage. Defensive combat deterrents such as Archfiend of Depravity, Kardur, Doomscourge, and Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs keep opposing aggression in check while the burn engine ramps up. The deck reliably creates critical onset by Turn 6 and closes out the table around Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Ad Nauseam
• 1 Akoum Refuge
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archfiend of Depravity
• 1 Ardent Electromancer
• 1 Bedevil
• 1 Black Waltz No. 3
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Brash Taunter
• 1 Bulk Up
• 1 Chainer, Dementia Master
• 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Combustible Gearhulk
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Command the Stage
• 1 Cornered by Black Mages
• 1 Curse-Marred Demon
• 1 Dictate of the Twin Gods
• 1 Ensnared by the Mara
• 1 Fiery Confluence
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Geode Rager
• 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
• 1 Graven Cairns
• 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Hawkeye, Young Avenger
• 1 Hexing Squelcher
• 1 Identity Echo
• 1 Ingris Stingerquill
• 1 Join the Dead
• 1 Kaervek the Merciless
• 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
• 1 Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
• 1 Kefka, Dancing Mad
• 1 Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Locke, Treasure Hunter
• 1 Master of Barbs
• 1 Mizzix's Mastery
• 1 Molten Slagheap
• 1 Monstrous Rage
• 14 Mountain
• 1 Murder
• 1 Mysidian Elder
• 1 Necrodominance
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Pain 101
• 1 Pox Plague
• 1 Profane Command
• 1 Pull from the Grave
• 1 Rewrite Regrets
• 1 Sangromancer
• 1 Scythe Specter
• 1 Sign in Blood
• 1 Slash, Reptile Rampager
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stensia Bloodhall
• 1 Stingerquill Charm
• 1 Strago and Relm
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 1 Summon: Esper Valigarmanda
• 1 Sunbird's Invocation
• 15 Swamp
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Temple of Malice
• 1 Terminate
• 1 Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage
• 1 Unlicensed Disintegration
• 1 Wild Ricochet
• 1 Zombify