marneus champ sample by kinglig

Format: Commander

Commander: Marneus Calgar

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 86

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered competitive Esper Commander list helmed by Marneus Calgar. It pairs a robust card advantage engine with the premier compact win condition in cEDH: Thassa's Oracle combined with Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact. The deck accelerates its mana using format-defining fast artifacts and rituals, quickly establishing early draw engines like Mystic Remora, Rhystic Study, and Esper Sentinel. Marneus Calgar turns passive token creation from cards like Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff, Tataru Taru, and Smothering Tithe into substantial card draw. Dense unconditional tutoring allows the pilot to assemble the winning combo rapidly by Turn 3. The strategy is heavily fortified by free counterspells and silence effects such as Silence, Orim's Chant, and Ranger-Captain of Eos, which preemptively shut down opponent interaction. If the primary combo is contested, the deck seamlessly transitions into a resilient midrange value plan backed by graveyard recursion from Yawgmoth's Will.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Angel's Grace
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Bard, King of Dale
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Chain of Vapor
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clever Impersonator
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commandeer
  • 1 Copy Enchantment
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Disrupting Shoal
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flash Photography
  • 1 Flesh Duplicate
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gilded Drake
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Imposter Mech
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marneus Calgar
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Mirrormade
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Ocelot Pride
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snapback
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Submerge
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Tarnished Citadel
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 Timetwister
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Volatile Stormdrake
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will