Drawn to Death (upgraded) by Holybapple

Format: Commander

Commander: Queza, Augur of Agonies

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This Esper deck leverages Queza, Augur of Agonies to transform card draw into steady life drain and lifegain. The primary strategy revolves around establishing efficient card flow engines, such as The One Ring, Necropotence, and The Theorist, Jace Beleren, while deploying disruptive stax pieces like Grand Arbiter Augustin IV to slow opposing development. The deck accelerates through early mana rocks and fast mana to assemble game-winning two-card infinite combos, most notably Exquisite Blood paired with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Marauding Blight-Priest, or Sanguine Bond. Once both halves of a combo enter play, any single life gain or life loss event triggers an infinite damage loop that eliminates all three opponents immediately in the same turn. High-efficiency free counterspells like Force of Will and Fierce Guardianship provide critical shielding during win attempts, while burst draw spells like Peer into the Abyss offer potent alternate win vectors.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Ambition's Cost
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Cast Away Doubt
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Cryogen Relic
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damnable Pact
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dawn of Hope
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Drogskol Reaver
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exclude
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gadwick, the Wizened
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Helping Hand
  • 1 Hieroglyphic Illumination
  • 1 Intimidation Campaign
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
  • 1 Jushi Apprentice // Tomoya the Revealer
  • 1 Kaito, Dancing Shadow
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Kothophed, Soul Hoarder
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Mathemagics
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Bonds
  • 1 Polluted Mire
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Revitalize
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Spreading Seas
  • 1 Stroke of Genius
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Theorist, Jace Beleren
  • 1 Think Twice
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Waterfront District
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed