Exaelitus by pprkut

Format: Commander

Commander: Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 16

Deck overview

This is a Grixis theft deck centered on Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter. The commander attacks to exile the top card of every library and lets you cast one of them, while Passionate Archaeologist turns exile-cast spells into direct damage. Other engines, including Breeches, Brazen Plunderer, Court of Locthwain, Brainstealer Dragon, Etali, Primal Storm, and Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh, expand the same play-from-exile theme. The deck has good card quality in its tutors and interaction, but its normal plan is slow and uncertain. It must assemble several pieces, wait through summoning sickness, and rely on random library hits. The list can generate strong swing turns and steal opposing resources, but it does not reliably create lethal pressure or a total lockout. Its best games are value-oriented midrange games in which repeated exile access eventually supplies better spells than the opponents can deploy.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Breeches, Brazen Plunderer
  • 1 Chaos Wand
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conscience
  • 1 Cosmic Cube
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Locthwain
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cunning Rhetoric
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Plate
  • 1 Dead Man's Chest
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dire Fleet Daredevil
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Ensnared by the Mara
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Eternal Scourge
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Fathom Feeder
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Laelia, the Blade Reforged
  • 1 Laughing Jasper Flint
  • 1 Lavaclaw Reaches
  • 1 Mindmelter
  • 1 Misery's Shadow
  • 1 Mnemonic Betrayal
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Obelisk of Grixis
  • 1 Ominous Asylum
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Oscorp Industries
  • 1 Passionate Archaeologist
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quistis Trepe
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Seething Landscape
  • 1 Sinister Hideout
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Slaughter Pact
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectacle Summit
  • 1 Spider-Sense
  • 1 Staff of Eden, Vault's Key
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Strategic Betrayal
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Temporal Extortion
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
  • 1 Umbris, Fear Manifest
  • 1 Valki, God of Lies // Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 You Find Some Prisoners