DJ HEIST by Big_Timin42

Format: Commander

Commander: The Scarab God

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 59

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized Dimir Combo-Control build helmed by The Scarab God, combining proactive stax elements with deterministic infinite combos. The primary game plan centers on assembling Duskmantle Guildmage and Mindcrank, utilizing a dense network of low-cost tutors, Transmute cards (Muddle the Mixture, Shred Memory), and Wizardcycling (Step Through). Once deployed and activated on Turn 4, any instance of mill or damage triggers an infinite feedback loop that simultaneously empties all opponents' libraries and drains their life totals to zero. In support of this fast kill, the deck deploys potent asymmetric denial pieces including Torpor Orb, Ashiok, Dream Render, and Tangle Wire to cripple opposing ETBs, searches, and mana curves. Backed by robust free countermagic (Force of Will, Pact of Negation) and redundant secondary win conditions like Bloodchief Ascension and Bruvac the Grandiloquent, the deck controls the table's tempo while reliably threatening an abrupt, protected victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Delay
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dress Down
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Merchant Scroll
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reshape
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shred Memory
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Step Through
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tale's End
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tangle Wire
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
  • 1 Torpor Orb
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Transmute Artifact
  • 1 Tribute Mage
  • 1 Trinket Mage
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whir of Invention
  • 1 Winds of Rebuke
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman