Two Mana 8/8 by Fredrikie

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ancient One

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 54

Deck overview

This Dimir list combines a potent reanimation control engine with compact stack-based combo finishes. Commanded by The Ancient One, the deck utilizes its commander as an efficient early 8/8 blocker and a repeatable discard outlet that fills the graveyard while milling key targets. The core game plan operates along two complementary axes: cheating massive game-ending creatures such as Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, Toxrill, the Corrosive, and Archon of Cruelty into play as early as turns 3 to 4, or executing a compact win via Thassa's Oracle paired with Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact. Supported by efficient interaction, sweepers, and resilient card flow engines like Palantír of Orthanc and Ripples of Undeath, the deck controls the pace of the game before securing a decisive, zero-response-cycle victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Countersquall
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Cynical Loner
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Darkness
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Doomsday
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Conclave
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Forbidden Alchemy
  • 1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
  • 1 Halo Forager
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
  • 1 Jace, the Perfected Mind
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Kiora, the Rising Tide
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Likeness Looter
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lonely Sandbar
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Refute
  • 1 Restless Reef
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Ruthless Technomancer
  • 1 Shadow of Mortality
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 The Cruelty of Gix
  • 1 Tomb Fortress
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Tyrite Sanctum
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wail of the Forgotten
  • 1 Wash Away
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Will of the Abzan