Unblockicus

Format: Commander

Commander: Jon Irenicus, Shattered One

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck executes a combat-control strategy led by Jon Irenicus, Shattered One. The primary game plan deploys low-cost unblockable creatures (such as Slither Blade and Mist-Cloaked Herald) and malicious gift creatures (such as Flesh Reaver and Phyrexian Obliterator). Once Jon enters the battlefield on Turn 4, these creatures are gifted to opponents with +1/+1 counters, permanent goad, and an anti-sacrifice clause. As opponents are forced to attack each other each turn, Jon converts those attacks into massive card advantage. Proliferate spells compound the size of goaded creatures, while interactive bounce and counterspells protect the pilot's life total. When the table is reduced to a heads-up situation, the deck finishes the last opponent using high-damage multipliers like Archfiend of Despair, sudden lethal poison from Tainted Strike, or a creature sweep like Evacuation.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aetherize
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archfiend of Despair
• 1 Astral Cornucopia
• 1 Baleful Strix
• 1 Baral's Expertise
• 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Bounce Off
• 1 Changeling Outcast
• 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
• 1 Come Back Wrong
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Contentious Plan
• 1 Cryptic Command
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Dauthi Horror
• 1 Dauthi Slayer
• 1 Dimir Infiltrator
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Dreamtide Whale
• 1 Drown in Ichor
• 1 Evacuation
• 1 Everflowing Chalice
• 1 Expansion Algorithm
• 1 Experimental Augury
• 1 Feast on the Fallen
• 1 Flesh Reaver
• 1 Grim Affliction
• 1 Gudul Lurker
• 1 Homeward Path
• 1 Hullcarver
• 1 Imp's Mischief
• 1 Inexorable Tide
• 1 Inkfathom Infiltrator
• 8 Island
• 1 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One
• 1 Karn's Bastion
• 1 Mercurial Spelldancer
• 1 Mirrodin's Core
• 1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Mystic Confluence
• 1 Noble's Purse
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Pentad Prism
• 1 Phyrexian Obliterator
• 1 Phyrexian Soulgorger
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Radstorm
• 1 Rancid Rats
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reins of Power
• 1 Reject Imperfection
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Riptide Laboratory
• 1 Scavenger Grounds
• 1 Season of Weaving
• 1 Serum Snare
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• 1 Slither Blade
• 1 Snap
• 1 Sower of Discord
• 1 Sublime Epiphany
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 8 Swamp
• 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
• 1 Tainted Isle
• 1 Tainted Strike
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Thrummingbird
• 1 Tidehollow Strix
• 1 Tormented Soul
• 1 Triton Shorestalker
• 1 Tromokratis
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Underground Sea
• 1 Unstoppable Slasher
• 1 Unsummon
• 1 Vivisurgeon's Insight
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Whisper of the Dross