Tasha and the Witch King by Frakreznor

Format: Commander

Commander: Tasha, the Witch Queen

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This Dimir midrange deck uses Tasha, the Witch Queen to steal opponents' best instants and sorceries while generating 3/3 Demon tokens. It supports this plan with dungeon venture and initiative mechanics from cards like Aarakocra Sneak and Ravenloft Adventurer, alongside Lord of the Rings Ring-bearer synergies. The deck focuses on controlling the pace of play in the early turns, establishing steady card draw and mana rocks before deploying high-impact creatures like Consuming Aberration, Elder Brain, and Lord of the Nazgûl. While it lacks fast infinite combos, it excels at grinding out card advantage, generating wide token boards, and draining life totals through Syr Konrad, the Grim and the Undercity dungeon.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aarakocra Sneak
  • 1 Acererak the Archlich
  • 1 Ancient Silver Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Bar the Gate
  • 1 Black Dragon Gate
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cloudkill
  • 1 Codex Shredder
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Diluvian Primordial
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 Displacer Beast
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Eccentric Apprentice
  • 1 Elder Brain
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fates' Reversal
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Feywild Caretaker
  • 1 Fly
  • 1 Font of Magic
  • 1 Fraying Line
  • 1 Gale's Redirection
  • 1 Gateway Plaza
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Glorious Gale
  • 1 Gogo, Master of Mimicry
  • 1 Gond Gate
  • 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
  • 1 Halimar Depths
  • 1 Haunted Fengraf
  • 1 Inherited Envelope
  • 1 Intellect Devourer
  • 1 Interplanar Beacon
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Iymrith, Desert Doom
  • 1 Krydle of Baldur's Gate
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Manifold Key
  • 1 Memory Plunder
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Navigation Orb
  • 1 Nazgûl
  • 1 Passageway Seer
  • 1 Precipitous Drop
  • 1 Quistis Trepe
  • 1 Ravenloft Adventurer
  • 1 Realm of Koh
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sandstorm Verge
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Sea Gate
  • 1 Secret Door
  • 1 Shadow Kin
  • 1 Shortcut Seeker
  • 1 Skullport Merchant
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stonespeaker Crystal
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 Tasha, the Witch Queen
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Grey Havens
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Tomb of Horrors Adventurer
  • 1 Trailblazer's Torch
  • 1 Underdark Explorer
  • 1 Vhal, Candlekeep Researcher
  • 1 Vicious Battlerager
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 Xanathar, Guild Kingpin
  • 1 Yuan-Ti Fang-Blade