The Destined Thievery by user9615103

Format: Commander

Commander: The Destined Warrior

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is an Esper party-tribal value deck helmed by The Destined Warrior, whose cost reduction for Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard spells and combat pump reward assembling a full party. The deck's real identity is a theft-and-monarch midrange strategy: it steals opponents' creatures through Gonti, Lord of Luxury, Gonti, Night Minister, Garland, Royal Kidnapper, Confiscate, and Modify Memory, while generating incremental value through ETB re-triggers via Purgatory, Chaos Shrine's Black Crystal, Conjurer's Closet, and Restoration Angel. The win condition is combat - a full party turns the commander's pump into +3/+0, and stolen bodies plus a wide board close out the game. Secondary payoffs like The Destined Black Mage and Sephiroth, Planet's Heir add reach. It is a slow, grindy value deck with no fast combo lines.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beatrix, Loyal General
  • 1 Bilbo Baggins, Burglar // Take a Glance
  • 1 Chaos Shrine's Black Crystal
  • 1 Cloak and Dagger
  • 1 Confiscate
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Cost of Brilliance
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crystal Fragments // Summon: Alexander
  • 1 Cut Down
  • 1 Daydream
  • 1 Duty Beyond Death
  • 1 Elrond, Moon-Reader
  • 1 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Evil Reawakened
  • 1 Exhibition Tidecaller
  • 1 Exhilarating Elocution
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fix What's Broken
  • 1 Garland, Royal Kidnapper
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
  • 1 Gonti, Night Minister
  • 1 Graduation Day
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Inside Information
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Jecht, Reluctant Guardian // Braska's Final Aeon
  • 1 Joined Researchers // Secret Rendezvous
  • 1 Lake-town
  • 1 Lake-town Mariners // Gone Fishing
  • 1 Lakeshore Apothecary
  • 1 Locke Cole
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Lunarch
  • 1 Modify Memory
  • 1 Moment of Glory
  • 1 Muse Seeker
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Old Fat Spider Can't See Me
  • 1 Orzhov Enforcer
  • 1 Palladium Myr
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Purgatory
  • 1 Quistis Trepe
  • 1 Restoration Angel
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rosa, Resolute White Mage
  • 1 Sandsteppe Outcast
  • 1 Scolding Administrator
  • 1 Sephiroth, Planet's Heir
  • 1 Seymour Flux
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stir Up Trouble
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Black Arrow
  • 1 The Destined Black Mage
  • 1 The Destined Thief
  • 1 The Destined Warrior
  • 1 The Eagles Are Coming!
  • 1 Thorin's Last Stand
  • 1 Thwart the Grave
  • 1 Tranquil Cove
  • 1 Ultimecia, Temporal Threat
  • 1 Urdnan, Dromoka Warrior
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Xande, Dark Mage