The Magdanomicon - Magda CEDH Primer by wx3

Format: Commander

Commander: Magda, Brazen Outlaw

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This is a Magda, Brazen Outlaw toolbox deck built around tapping Dwarves and changelings to create Treasures. The central payoff is sacrificing five Treasures to put a high-impact artifact such as Portal to Phyrexia directly onto the battlefield. Fast mana gives the deck a real chance to assemble this plan ahead of curve, while Xorn, Professional Face-Breaker, Jeska's Will, and Roaming Throne improve Treasure production or selection. The deck's strongest ordinary threat is a turn-5 Portal to Phyrexia that forces a major creature sacrifice and then generates recurring battlefield advantage. It is not a deterministic combo deck: it has no supported infinite loop, compact alternate win, or reliable table-kill clock. Interaction is useful but mostly one-for-one and unevenly distributed across threat types. The deck is most effective against creature-heavy tables and weaker against spell-based engines, graveyard hate, artifact removal, and repeated disruption of Magda, Brazen Outlaw.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Adaptive Automaton
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Axgard Cavalry
  • 1 Barbarian Ring
  • 1 Barkform Harvester
  • 1 Battered Golem
  • 1 Bloodfire Dwarf
  • 1 Bottle-Cap Blast
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Clock of Omens
  • 1 Clown Car
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Dead // Gone
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Disruptor Flute
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dwarven Armorer
  • 1 Dwarven Bloodboiler
  • 1 Dwarven Grunt
  • 1 Dwarven Mauler
  • 1 Dwarven Scorcher
  • 1 Dwarven Trader
  • 1 Enslaved Dwarf
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Flywheel Racer
  • 1 Fíli and Kíli, Joyous
  • 1 Galvanic Blast
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gogo, Mysterious Mime
  • 1 Grafdigger's Cage
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Grinding Station
  • 1 Hammerheim
  • 1 Holdout Settlement
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kavaron, Memorial World
  • 1 Knuckles the Echidna
  • 1 Liberated Dwarf
  • 1 Lifecraft Engine
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
  • 1 Magda, the Hoardmaster
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mutavault
  • 1 Peter Parker's Camera
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Plundering Barbarian
  • 1 Portal to Phyrexia
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Pyrokinesis
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
  • 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Smuggler's Copter
  • 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Mage
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Stalactite Dagger
  • 1 Sudden Shock
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 1 Survivors' Encampment
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 Three Tree Mascot
  • 1 Torpor Orb
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Twinshot Sniper
  • 1 Universal Automaton
  • 1 Unlicensed Hearse
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Volatile Fault
  • 1 Xorn
  • 1 Zoyowa's Justice
  • 1 Óin the Brave