The Master by user5414883

Format: Commander

Commander: The Master, Formed Anew

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Dimir Reanimator and Blink combo strategy helmed by The Master, Formed Anew. It focuses on cheating massive, game-warping creatures into play ahead of curve using low-cost reanimation spells such as Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Persist. Once a prime creature like Archon of Cruelty or Hoarding Broodlord enters the graveyard via looters or Entomb, the deck reanimates it to seize commanding board advantage. The Master, Formed Anew acts as a repeatable, low-cost clone of any creature exiled with a takeover counter, multiplying devastating enter-the-battlefield triggers. The deck closes games deterministically through infinite flicker and untap loops, primarily utilizing Hoarding Broodlord with Saw in Half into Archaeomancer and Ghostly Flicker, or pairing Deadeye Navigator with Peregrine Drake. With redundant draw engines, versatile bounce interaction, and free commander protection spells, the deck generates compounding card flow while threatening table-wide lethal loops by Turn 5.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abhorrent Oculus
  • 1 Agna Qel'a
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Archaeomancer
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Armaggon, Future Shark
  • 1 Auton Soldier
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boomerang Basics
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Candlekeep Sage
  • 1 Careful Study
  • 1 Cavern Harpy
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Cloudstone Curio
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Tide
  • 1 Crabomination
  • 1 Curfew
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadeye Navigator
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dour Port-Mage
  • 1 Dusk Mangler
  • 1 Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Equilibrium
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Familiar's Ruse
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gallifrey Council Chamber
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Great Whale
  • 1 Hoarding Broodlord
  • 1 Hollow Marauder
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Kederekt Leviathan
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Lord of Change
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Merfolk Pupil
  • 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Oracle of Tragedy
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Palinchron
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Red Room Recruit
  • 1 Sanctum of Eternity
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scroll of Fate
  • 1 Shadowgrange Archfiend
  • 1 Shard of the Nightbringer
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Start the TARDIS
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Summon: Bahamut
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Master, Formed Anew
  • 1 This Town Ain't Big Enough
  • 1 Tomb Fortress
  • 1 Trenzalore Clocktower
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Watcher for Tomorrow
  • 1 Waterfront Bouncer
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Young Necromancer