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Format: Commander

Commander: Inquisitor Greyfax

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper go-wide token combat and aristocrat attrition deck commanded by Inquisitor Greyfax. It leverages Greyfax's global vigilance and power pump alongside dedicated token engines like Adeline, Resplendent Cathar, Company Commander, and Marneus Calgar to flood the battlefield with creature tokens and Clues. The deck converts this board into game-ending pressure through powerful damage multipliers like Starlight Spectacular, For the Emperor!, and Cyberdrive Awakener, or via non-combat life drain from Commissar Severina Raine, Mirkwood Bats, and Nadier's Nightblade. With solid defensive spells such as Clever Concealment and Boromir, Warden of the Tower, the deck can weather opposing sweepers while out-valuing the table through Caretaker's Talent and Skullclamp. Lacking tutor density and fast mana, it wins cleanly in the mid-game on Turns 7–8 through resilient, incremental multiplayer attrition.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Ainok Strike Leader
  • 1 And They Shall Know No Fear
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Assault Intercessor
  • 1 Baron Bertram Graywater
  • 1 Bastion Protector
  • 1 Belisarius Cawl
  • 1 Birth of the Imperium
  • 1 Boromir, Warden of the Tower
  • 1 Caretaker's Talent
  • 1 Castle Ardenvale
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Celestine, the Living Saint
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Collective Effort
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Commissar Severina Raine
  • 1 Company Commander
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Defenders of Humanity
  • 1 Deny the Witch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
  • 1 Entrapment Maneuver
  • 1 Epistolary Librarian
  • 1 Ethereal Investigator
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 For the Emperor!
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Hero of Bladehold
  • 1 Hour of Reckoning
  • 1 Hylda of the Icy Crown
  • 1 Inquisitor Greyfax
  • 1 Inquisitorial Rosette
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Launch the Fleet
  • 1 Marneus Calgar
  • 1 Martial Coup
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Primaris Chaplain
  • 1 Primaris Eliminator
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Sicarian Infiltrator
  • 1 Sister Hospitaller
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Space Marine Devastator
  • 1 Space Marine Scout
  • 1 Starlight Spectacular
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teysa, Opulent Oligarch
  • 1 Thunderhawk Gunship
  • 1 Triumph of Saint Katherine
  • 1 Ultramarines Honour Guard
  • 1 Vanguard Suppressor
  • 1 Vexilus Praetor
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Zephyrim