The Weaver King

Format: Commander

Commander: The Weaver King

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir theft and mill midrange strategy designed to weaponize opponents' decks against them. Led by The Weaver King, the deck utilizes the commander's evasive Shadow keyword to reliably connect in combat, mill opposing libraries, and reanimate the best milled creature from every opponent directly onto your battlefield. A dense supporting cast of theft engines—including Breach the Multiverse, Captain N'ghathrod, Sepulchral Primordial, and Brainstealer Dragon—ensures that the game plan remains potent even if the commander is removed. Efficient Dimir interaction like Mana Drain, Counterspell, Toxic Deluge, and Cyclonic Rift protects your board and controls the table's tempo. Resilient equipment such as Commander's Plate and Mithril Coat insulates your key creatures from removal. The deck ultimately closes out games around Turn 8 through overwhelming combat damage delivered by stolen armies, compounded by life loss from Brainstealer Dragon or a game-ending Torment of Hailfire.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Blade of Selves
  • 1 Boomerang
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Captain N'ghathrod
  • 1 Command Bridge
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Plate
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Cruel Tutor
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Plate
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diluvian Primordial
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dolmen Gate
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Frozen Aether
  • 1 Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 High Tide
  • 15 Island
  • 1 Loki, God of Mischief
  • 1 Loki, Lord of Misrule
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Memory Plunder
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mnemonic Betrayal
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Multiversal Incursion
  • 1 Multiversal Recruitment
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Redirect
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stifle
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of Body and Mind
  • 1 The Cyber-Controller
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 The Weaver King
  • 1 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twincast
  • 1 Umbris, Fear Manifest
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Wizards of Thay