New Untitled Deck by user5320793

Format: Commander

Commander: Xantcha, Sleeper Agent

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity forced-combat and group-slug engine helmed by Xantcha, Sleeper Agent. The primary strategy accelerates mana in the opening turns to deploy Xantcha under an opponent's control by Turn 3, instantly transforming an opponent's board into an aggressive threat that cannot attack its owner. As opponents are forced to direct combat elsewhere, the deck compounds table-wide attrition using goad effects like Kardur, Doomscourge and Disrupt Decorum, alongside escalating global damage from Descent into Avernus and Prisoner's Dilemma. Xantcha provides an uncounterable late-game mana sink and card-draw engine that chips away at the designated controller's life total while refilling the hand. Backup threats such as Slicer, Hired Muscle maintain relentless pressure if Xantcha is removed. Supported by efficient Rakdos removal, reanimation engines, and Defense Grid for turn protection, the deck reliably closes the game around Turn 7 as battered opponents succumb to compulsory combat and direct drain.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Claim the Firstborn
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Eye of Nidhogg
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Feldon of the Third Path
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Ghoulish Impetus
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Gixian Puppeteer
  • 1 Goblin Engineer
  • 1 Grenzo, Havoc Raiser
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Heartstone
  • 1 Homeward Path
  • 1 Humble Defector
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Kain, Traitorous Dragoon
  • 1 Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Khârn the Betrayer
  • 1 Kolaghan's Command
  • 1 Liquimetal Coating
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Maximum Carnage
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Mirage Mirror
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Necrologia
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Prisoner's Dilemma
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Patron of Chaos
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rings of Brighthearth
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Sleeper Agent
  • 1 Slicer, Hired Muscle // Slicer, High-Speed Antagonist
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Sound of Drums
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Valki, God of Lies // Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Wake the Dead
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Worldgorger Dragon
  • 1 Xantcha, Sleeper Agent