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Format: Commander

Commander: The Ancient One

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir reanimation strategy built around The Ancient One, utilizing the commander as an accessible discard outlet, mill engine, and efficient 8/8 attacker once Descend 8 is satisfied. The primary game plan fills the graveyard rapidly using self-mill cards like Stitcher's Supplier, Stinkweed Imp, and the commander's looting ability to discard game-ending creatures such as Archon of Cruelty, Vilis, Broker of Blood, and Hullbreaker Horror. Cheap reanimation spells, including Dance of the Dead, Blood for Bones, and Rewrite Regrets, bring these massive threats onto the battlefield as early as Turn 4. Mass recursion spells like Living Death and Rise of the Dark Realms provide powerful late-game board floods to overwhelm the table. The deck features functional countermagic and removal, but relies primarily on combat damage across multiple turn cycles and continuous graveyard access to close out games.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abhorrent Overlord
  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Blood for Bones
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Matter Manipulator
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Colossus
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Discovery // Dispersal
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Emrakul, the Exigent Doom
  • 1 Entropic Battlecruiser
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fated Return
  • 1 Fblthp, Impossibly Lost
  • 1 Fell Gravship
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Gollum, Riddle Master
  • 1 Gravewaker
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Huskburster Swarm
  • 9 Island
  • 1 It That Betrays
  • 1 Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Liliana the Repentant
  • 1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Null Summoner
  • 1 Overwrite the Multiverse
  • 1 Paradox Shaper // Omit Variables
  • 1 Perpetual Timepiece
  • 1 Quag Feast
  • 1 Restless Reef
  • 1 Rewrite Regrets
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Scholar of the Ages
  • 1 Shadow of Mortality
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stinkweed Imp
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Terminal Criticism
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 The Cauldron of Eternity
  • 1 The Dawning Archaic
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 Theorix Charm
  • 1 Theorix Metamage // Omit Variables
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Void Extrapolator // Omit Variables
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar