New Untitled Deck by user5785252

Format: Commander

Commander: Shantotto, Tactician Magician

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck uses Shantotto, Tactician Magician to convert expensive noncreature spells into lethal commander damage and steady card advantage. By prioritizing spells with a mana value of 4 or higher, such as Hedron Archive, Big Score, and 4-mana counterspells, each cast triggers Shantotto to grant massive temporary power boosts and draw replacement cards. The primary win condition relies on granting Shantotto evasion with Aqueous Form or Rogue's Passage, doubling its damage with Temur Battle Rage or Bulk Up, and eliminating opponents with single-hit commander damage. The deck backs up this combat strategy with direct burn and board-clearing finishers like Chandra's Ignition, Fling, and Crackle with Power. Its heavy suite of counterspells provides strong interaction while continuing to trigger Shantotto on opposing turns. Without fast mana or cheap tutors, the deck operates at a deliberate pace, assembling its engine on Turn 4 and threatening lethal attacks by Turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Banefire
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blinding Flare
  • 1 Brass's Bounty
  • 1 Bria, Riptide Rogue
  • 1 Brutal Expulsion
  • 1 Bulk Up
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Cryptic Command
  • 1 Crystal Skull, Isu Spyglass
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Discombobulate
  • 1 Dismiss
  • 1 Enter the Enigma
  • 1 Essence Backlash
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fling
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Genji Glove
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Gravitic Punch
  • 1 Great Train Heist
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jailbreak Scheme
  • 1 Katara's Reversal
  • 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Memory Drain
  • 1 Mizzix's Mastery
  • 12 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nibelheim Aflame
  • 1 Pirate's Pillage
  • 1 Proft's Eidetic Memory
  • 1 Reinterpret
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Ring of the Lucii
  • 1 Riverwalk Technique
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Self-Destruct
  • 1 Shantotto, Tactician Magician
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sisay's Ring
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorceress's Schemes
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sudden Setback
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Summary Dismissal
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Temur Battle Rage
  • 1 The Aetherspark
  • 1 The Emperor of Palamecia // The Lord Master of Hell
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Thunder Magic
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Whoosh!