The Celestial Toymaker by Stinewise

Format: Commander

Commander: The Celestial Toymaker

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Esper pile deck uses The Celestial Toymaker as a repeatable card-advantage engine and slow drain. Each attack and each Fact-or-Fiction-style spell forces an opponent to split piles, and Toymaker makes each pile event drain 2 life at end step. You grind value with Atris, Curator of Destinies, Sphinxes and Unesh while chipping away. Wound Reflection and Y'shtola, Night's Blessed turn the incremental drain into a burst win, and combat with evasive Sphinxes provides a backup. Adric plus The Fifth Doctor offers a value loop that untaps and grows your board. The deck wants long games, controls the board with counters and removal, and wins after establishing multiple pile triggers per turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Adric, Mathematical Genius
  • 1 Aetherspouts
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atris, Oracle of Half-Truths
  • 1 Cave of the Frost Dragon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Condemn
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curator of Destinies
  • 1 Death or Glory
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dollhouse of Horrors
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Epiphany at the Drownyard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Fight or Flight
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Fortune's Favor
  • 1 Ghastly Conscription
  • 1 Gollum, Scheming Guide
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hostile Negotiations
  • 1 Intrude on the Mind
  • 1 Irrigated Farmland
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jace, Architect of Thought
  • 1 Jeskai Infiltrator
  • 1 K-9, Mark I
  • 1 Manifold Insights
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Nyssa of Traken
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Parallel Thoughts
  • 1 Phyrexian Portal
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Psychic Paper
  • 1 Reverse the Polarity
  • 1 Riddles in the Dark
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Sauron's Ransom
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin
  • 1 Shambling Vent
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silumgar Monument
  • 1 Sinister Sabotage
  • 1 Skyclave Relic
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sonic Screwdriver
  • 1 Sphinx of Clear Skies
  • 1 Sphinx of Forgotten Lore
  • 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 TARDIS
  • 1 Tegan Jovanka
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Celestial Toymaker
  • 1 The Eleventh Doctor
  • 1 The Fifth Doctor
  • 1 The Master, Formed Anew
  • 1 The Master, Mesmerist
  • 1 The Seventh Doctor
  • 1 This Is How It Ends
  • 1 Time Lord Regeneration
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Truth or Tale
  • 1 Tyrant's Scorn
  • 1 Unable to Scream
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wound Reflection
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed