SNAIL HATE by user4811129

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ancient One

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

The Ancient One leads a Dimir control and mill deck that leverages graveyard filling into lethal library depletion or massive reanimation lines. As an early two-mana 8/8 with a looting and mill activated ability, your commander rapidly enables graveyard mechanics while threatening fast pressure once Descend 8 is satisfied. The primary win condition is completely milling opponents through exponential effects like Bruvac the Grandiloquent paired with Maddening Cacophony, Cut Your Losses, Fleet Swallower, or Terisian Mindbreaker. Secondarily, the deck converts filled graveyards into total board dominance using reanimation bombs like Rise of the Dark Realms or The True Scriptures.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Campfire
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Cranial Archive
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Didn't Say Please
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Echo of Eons
  • 1 Elixir of Immortality
  • 1 Evacuation
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feldon's Cane
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Finale of Revelation
  • 1 Fleet Swallower
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Glimpse the Unthinkable
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
  • 1 Learn from the Past
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mind Grind
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Nexus of Fate
  • 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
  • 1 Overwhelming Remorse
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Psychic Spiral
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restless Reef
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Shadow of Mortality
  • 1 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terisian Mindbreaker
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 The Cauldron of Eternity
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Foundry
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Watery Grave