Cacheton by Richi92

Format: Commander

Commander: Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 51

Deck overview

This Esper deck leverages Hashaton, Scarab's Fist as a reliable command-zone engine that converts discarded high-cost creatures into 4/4 Zombie token copies for {2}{U}. Backed by low-cost discard outlets like Putrid Imp and Tireless Tribe, the deck cheats game-warping Praetors and Sphinxes into play by Turn 4. Once a threat like Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur or Razaketh, the Foulblooded enters the battlefield, the deck transitions into asymmetric stax locks including Drannith Magistrate with Knowledge Pool or Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite with Kormus Bell and Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth. Traditional reanimation spells such as Reanimate and Animate Dead provide redundant velocity that operates entirely independently of the commander. Efficient counterspells and proactive protection like Grand Abolisher defend the board while large flying tokens eliminate opponents over two combat rotations.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Archon of Emeria
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Astral Dragon
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Aven Mindcensor
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Body Double
  • 1 Bog Witch
  • 1 Burning-Rune Demon
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Containment Priest
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Petition
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Exalted Sunborn
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Ghostly Pilferer
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Overseer
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hashaton, Scarab's Fist
  • 1 Iron-Shield Elf
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Knowledge Pool
  • 1 Kormus Bell
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Likeness Looter
  • 1 Maha, Its Feathers Night
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pollywog Prodigy
  • 1 Psychic Frog
  • 1 Putrid Imp
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Ratadrabik of Urborg
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Renewed Solidarity
  • 1 Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Serra's Emissary
  • 1 Sharuum the Hegemon
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sire of Stagnation
  • 1 Skirge Familiar
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sudden Spoiling
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Underworld Cookbook
  • 1 Tireless Tribe
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unholy Grotto
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Watery Grave