Revenant Recon by user3770217

Format: Commander

Commander: Mirko, Obsessive Theorist

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This Dimir deck is helmed by Mirko, Obsessive Theorist, a commander that grows from surveil triggers and reanimates creatures with power less than his own at each end step. The strategy revolves around a dense surveil package - Consider, Curate, Otherworldly Gaze, Discovery // Dispersal, and creatures like Thoughtbound Phantasm, Dimir Spybug, and Nightveil Sprite - to fill the graveyard, pump Mirko, and fuel his reanimation ability. The deck also packs traditional reanimation spells (Reanimate, Animate Dead, Necromancy, Connive // Concoct) to cheat out high-impact threats ahead of curve. Win conditions include combat damage from reanimated beaters like Grave Titan and Massacre Wurm, incremental drain from Syr Konrad, the Grim, and a potential Laboratory Maniac finish if the library empties. Doom Whisperer provides repeatable surveil and acts as both enabler and threat. The deck leans on premium tutors (Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor) to assemble its key pieces, and includes a respectable interaction suite with Force of Will, Fierce Guardianship, and Deadly Rollick.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Amphin Mutineer
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Baleful Strix
• 1 Black Sun's Zenith
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Case of the Shifting Visage
• 1 Charnel Serenade
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Connive // Concoct
• 1 Consider
• 1 Counterpoint
• 1 Curate
• 1 Darkslick Shores
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Deep Analysis
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Dimir Aqueduct
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Dimir Spybug
• 1 Discovery // Dispersal
• 1 Dogged Detective
• 1 Doom Whisperer
• 1 Dreadhound
• 1 Dream Eater
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Drownyard Temple
• 1 Enhanced Surveillance
• 1 Ephara's Dispersal
• 1 Everflowing Chalice
• 1 Eye of Duskmantle
• 1 Fetid Pools
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Force of Will
• 1 Grave Titan
• 1 Hostile Desert
• 7 Island
• 1 Lazav, the Multifarious
• 1 Massacre Wurm
• 1 Master of Death
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Mirko, Obsessive Theorist
• 1 Mission Briefing
• 1 Mulldrifter
• 1 Mystic Sanctuary
• 1 Necromancy
• 1 Nightveil Sprite
• 1 Notion Rain
• 1 Otherworldly Gaze
• 1 Overseer of the Damned
• 1 Phyrexian Arena
• 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1 Pile On
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Port of Karfell
• 1 Power Conduit
• 1 Price of Fame
• 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 River of Tears
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Shriekmaw
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 7 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Sword of Once and Future
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Tainted Isle
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Thoughtbound Phantasm
• 1 Tocasia's Dig Site
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Twilight Prophet
• 1 Undercity Sewers
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Vana'diel Adventurers
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Whispering Snitch