Take My Boys by resin

Format: Commander

Commander: Jon Irenicus, Shattered One

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is commanded by Jon Irenicus, Shattered One, focusing on a political 'bad gifts' and goad control strategy. The primary objective is to cast creatures with severe drawbacks—such as Steel Golem, Flesh Reaver, Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore, and Sapphire Leech—and donate them to opponents at your end step. Jon buffs these creatures with +1/+1 counters, makes them permanently goaded, and prevents them from being sacrificed. As opponents are forced to batter each other, Jon's secondary ability refills your hand with card draw for every attack. The rest of the list acts as a Dimir control shell packed with countermagic, bounce spells, and creature theft effects like Invoke the Winds and Mind Control. While the deck excels at disrupting single players and generating steady card advantage, its clock relies on incremental combat damage, leaving it vulnerable to extended table rotations and sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abyssal Persecutor
  • 1 Arms of Hadar
  • 1 Boarded Window
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Capture Sphere
  • 1 Chant of the Skifsang
  • 1 Chronic Flooding
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Containment Membrane
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkblade Agent
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dead Weight
  • 1 Devious Cover-Up
  • 1 Didn't Say Please
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 Dimir Informant
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disruption Protocol
  • 1 Dream Fracture
  • 1 Drowned Secrets
  • 1 Eject
  • 1 Essence Capture
  • 1 Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore
  • 1 Evil Eye of Urborg
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Extract Brain
  • 1 Fight On!
  • 1 Flesh Reaver
  • 1 Foul Watcher
  • 1 Homunculus Horde
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Invoke the Winds
  • 15 Island
  • 1 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One
  • 1 Learn from the Past
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Locthwain Paladin
  • 1 Lord of the Pit
  • 1 Mind Control
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Never Happened
  • 1 Nightveil Sprite
  • 1 Nivix Barrier
  • 1 Notion Rain
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Passwall Adept
  • 1 Phantom Interference
  • 1 Phyrexian Infiltrator
  • 1 Plea for Power
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Ravenous Demon // Archdemon of Greed
  • 1 Revoke Demise
  • 1 Run Away Together
  • 1 Saheeli's Artistry
  • 1 Sandstorm Verge
  • 1 Sapphire Leech
  • 1 Shrewd Negotiation
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steel Golem
  • 1 Swallowed by Leviathan
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Thought Erasure
  • 1 Treno, Dark City
  • 1 Unexplained Disappearance
  • 1 Unknown Shores
  • 1 Vayne's Treachery
  • 1 Wall of Runes
  • 1 Whisper Agent