Jester Yoinkin' by user3101488

Format: Commander

Commander: The Madcap Jester

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This Grixis deck operates as a dynamic exile and theft midrange engine led by The Madcap Jester. The deck leverages its commander's ability to exile cards from opponent libraries upon attacking and cast them using mana of any type. Supported by redundant exile enablers like Tasha's Hideous Laughter, Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver, and Laughing Jasper Flint, the deck converts opposing libraries into an extensive card reservoir. Payoff engines such as Prosper, Tome-Bound and Don Andres, the Renegade accelerate mana via Treasures and grant potent combat buffs, while Passionate Archaeologist and Keeper of Secrets translate exiled casts into lethal direct damage. The late game is anchored by dominating Eldrazi titans and high-cost dragons that drain life totals and deplete libraries. Robust equipment and surgical library disruption protect the game plan while systematically neutralizing opposing win conditions.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
  • 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Circu, Dimir Lobotomist
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Crumbling Sanctuary
  • 1 Cunning Rhetoric
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Dimir Machinations
  • 1 Don Andres, the Renegade
  • 1 Dragon's Smile
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dream Harvest
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Ensnared by the Mara
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extract
  • 1 Fathom Feeder
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fortune Teller's Talent
  • 1 Gonti, Night Minister
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Inside Information
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Jabs, Mistress of Mockery
  • 1 Jester's Cap
  • 1 Jester's Scepter
  • 1 Keeper of Secrets
  • 1 Laughing Jasper Flint
  • 1 Leyline of the Void
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Nalfeshnee
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Oblivion Sower
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 1 Party Thrasher
  • 1 Passionate Archaeologist
  • 1 Plargg and Nassari
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Psychic Surgery
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sadistic Sacrament
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sire of Stagnation
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Madcap Jester
  • 1 Thieving Varmint
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Uba Mask
  • 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
  • 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Wild-Magic Sorcerer
  • 1 Winged Boots
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 You Find Some Prisoners