My pod hates me by Fredrikie

Format: Commander

Commander: Grand Arbiter Augustin IV

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This Azorius stax and control deck leverages Grand Arbiter Augustin IV to create severe mana asymmetry, taxing opponents while discounting its own spells. The deck's primary game plan is to deploy early tax and restriction pieces-such as Archon of Emeria, Rule of Law, and Trinisphere-to halt opposing fast combos and aggressive board states. Once the table is constrained under oppressive resource locks and countermagic protection, the deck digs toward its primary win condition, Approach of the Second Sun, or establishes total board control with Hullbreaker Horror. It reliably grinds opponents out of resources before sealing victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abstergo Entertainment
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Emeria
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azorius Locket
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Blinkmoth Well
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cave of the Frost Dragon
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consign to Memory
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Destroy Evil
  • 1 Doorkeeper Thrull
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 God-Pharaoh's Statue
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Hall of Storm Giants
  • 1 Harbinger of the Seas
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Idyllic Beachfront
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Keeper of the Accord
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
  • 1 Leonin Arbiter
  • 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Meekstone
  • 1 Micromancer
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Phyrexian Censor
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Rebuff the Wicked
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restless Anchorage
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Rule of Law
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Sphere of Resistance
  • 1 Sunfall
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • 1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
  • 1 The Council of Four
  • 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
  • 1 Torpor Orb
  • 1 Trinisphere
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Vapor Snag
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
  • 1 Whirlwind Denial
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Winter Orb
  • 1 Wizard Class
  • 1 Wrath of God