The Warden by LC13

Format: Commander

Commander: Memnarch, the Warden

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This colorless deck operates as a dedicated big-mana artifact engine commanded by Memnarch, the Warden. Its primary strategy focuses on explosive early mana acceleration through low-cost mana rocks, cost reducers, and high-yield lands like Ancient Tomb and Urza lands. By Turn 4, the deck reliably generates seven or more mana, setting up a decisive onset on Turn 5 with high-impact colorless threats like Krang, Utrom Warlord, Portal to Phyrexia, or Cityscape Leveler. Krang grants the artifact creature army flying, trample, haste, and indestructible, allowing the deck to pressure opposing life totals rapidly and close out the table by Turn 7. While the deck boasts immense permanent resilience and backup threats that operate completely independently of its commander, it exhibits notable vulnerabilities in its low density of instant-speed interaction and susceptibility to mass artifact exile effects.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Memorial
  • 1 All Is Dust
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Chief of the Foundry
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Cityscape Leveler
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Commander's Plate
  • 1 Darksteel Angel
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Darksteel Forge
  • 1 Darksteel Monolith
  • 1 Echoes of Eternity
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fomori Vault
  • 1 Forsaken Monument
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Ichorclaw Myr
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Jhoira's Familiar
  • 1 Karn, Legacy Reforged
  • 1 Krang, Utrom Warlord
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Manifold Key
  • 1 Memnarch, the Warden
  • 1 Memnite
  • 1 Metalwork Colossus
  • 1 Metalworker
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mycosynth Golem
  • 1 Myr Battlesphere
  • 1 Myr Galvanizer
  • 1 Myr Retriever
  • 1 Myr Turbine
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Null Elemental Blast
  • 1 Palladium Myr
  • 1 Plague Myr
  • 1 Portal to Phyrexia
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sanctum of Ugin
  • 1 Scrap Trawler
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shimmer Myr
  • 1 Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 The Eternity Elevator
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Tomb of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Ugin's Labyrinth
  • 1 Ugin, the Ineffable
  • 1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Urza's Factory
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Urza's Mine
  • 1 Urza's Power Plant
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Urza's Tower
  • 1 Urza's Workshop
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Warping Wail
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 9 Wastes
  • 1 Worn Powerstone