Opps, All Praetors by MasterChief

Format: Commander

Commander: Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is an oppressive five-color control and stax strategy built around Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge. The main plan accelerates mana to cast the enchantment side, The Prismatic Bridge, on turn 4 or 5. Once operational, the bridge cheats massive Phyrexian Praetors directly from the library onto the battlefield every upkeep. Game-ending threats such as Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur strip opposing hands, Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger locks down opponent lands, and Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite wipes small creatures while buffing the team. Asymmetric denial pieces like Winter Orb, Phyrexian Censor, and Cataclysm severely disrupt opposing development while leaving the bridge's free deployments untouched. Although the deck lacks an instant infinite combo and requires three combat rotations to eliminate all opponents, its combination of crushing attrition, free protection spells, and redundant bomb threats establishes an unrecoverable resource disparity.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 Cataclysm
  • 1 Celestial Colonnade
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Coastal Piracy
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crumbling Vestige
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Emergent Ultimatum
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Esika, God of the Tree // The Prismatic Bridge
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Experimental Augury
  • 1 Faerie Artisans
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Insight Engine
  • 1 Inspired Ultimatum
  • 1 Interplanar Beacon
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Murky Sewer
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Obscuring Haze
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of All
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Otherworldly Gaze
  • 1 Paradox Haze
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Censor
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prismatic Ending
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Razorverge Thicket
  • 1 Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Shoot the Sheriff
  • 1 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Tamiyo, Compleated Sage
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terrain Generator
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Urabrask // The Great Work
  • 1 Urabrask the Hidden
  • 1 Urabrask, Heretic Praetor
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution
  • 1 Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
  • 1 Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
  • 1 Winter Orb
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery