jace and friends by drx879

Format: Commander

Commander: Jace, Multiverse Architect

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a four-color token polymorph strategy commanded by Jace, Multiverse Architect. In the opening turns, the deck deploys efficient artifact acceleration and low-cost token producers such as Skrelv's Hive and Dreadhorde Invasion to establish a board presence and smooth color requirements. On Turn 5, Jace enters the battlefield and immediately uses his −3 loyalty ability to exile a disposable token, digging through the library to cheat a devastating high-cost creature or planeswalker directly onto the battlefield. Payoffs like Archon of Cruelty, Archfiend of Despair, Avacyn, Angel of Horror, and Serra's Emissary generate immediate card advantage, protect the board, and establish an evasive aerial clock. Backup polymorph engines like Mass Polymorph and Synthetic Destiny convert token swarms into multiple game-ending bombs simultaneously, while a suite of white spot removal and sweepers controls the tempo of the game until combat damage finishes the table.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Darksteel Angel
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Fatehold Charm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Ginger, Queen of Sweets
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grand Crescendo
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jace, Multiverse Architect
  • 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Corsair
  • 1 Kefka, Dancing Mad
  • 1 Kher Keep
  • 1 Lingering Souls
  • 1 Martial Coup
  • 1 Mass Polymorph
  • 1 Memnarch, the Warden
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Nissa, Leyline Tamer
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Ascended
  • 1 Occult Epiphany
  • 1 Overlord of the Mistmoors
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Perilous Landscape
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Proteus Staff
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Restless Anchorage
  • 1 Restless Spire
  • 1 Secure the Wastes
  • 1 Sedris, the Traitor King
  • 1 Serra's Emissary
  • 1 Shark Typhoon
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Skrelv's Hive
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Staff of the Storyteller
  • 1 Starwinder
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunfall
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Synthetic Destiny
  • 1 Take the Bait
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tamiyo, Upriser Crowned
  • 1 Teferi's Reproach
  • 1 Torrential Gearhulk
  • 1 Turbulent Crater
  • 1 Turbulent Shore
  • 1 Turbulent Wetlands
  • 1 Ugin, Eye of the Storms
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Venser, Fervent Forger
  • 1 Whirlwind of Thought
  • 1 White Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed