Xanathar by kaj31

Format: Commander

Commander: Xanathar, Guild Kingpin

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 51

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir Control and Combo list led by Xanathar, Guild Kingpin. The primary game plan accelerates mana through low-cost artifacts to assemble an infinite mana loop using Isochron Scepter and Dramatic Reversal. Once infinite mana is active, the deck finishes the entire table in a single turn with a massive Torment of Hailfire or by drawing the library into Thassa's Oracle. While working toward this combo, the deck controls the pace of the game using efficient counterspells, targeted removal, and board wipes like Cyclonic Rift and Toxic Deluge. Card advantage engines such as The One Ring, Rhystic Study, and Mystic Remora smooth out draws and locate key combo pieces. Xanathar, Guild Kingpin provides a strong secondary value engine, locking down interactive opponents during your turn while stealing key utility spells from the tops of their libraries.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diluvian Primordial
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Expropriate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Field of Dreams
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
  • 1 Hall of Storm Giants
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Intellect Devourer
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Lantern of Insight
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nightveil Specter
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Paradox Haze
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Siphon Insight
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wizened Snitches
  • 1 Xanathar, Guild Kingpin