lord xander the collector by Mike64

Format: Commander

Commander: Lord Xander, the Collector

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This Grixis control deck leverages Lord Xander, the Collector alongside a dedicated mill and graveyard exploitation package. The primary game plan seeks to control early development with efficient spot removal and countermagic while setting up compounding mill permanents like Mesmeric Orb and Court of Cunning. The deck shifts into a lethal posture around Turn 6 by pairing Bruvac the Grandiloquent with a kicked Maddening Cacophony, instantly emptying every opponent's library to secure victory on their subsequent draw steps. If the primary combo is disrupted, the deck pivots into an attrition strategy using Lord Xander, the Collector for targeted hand and board destruction, backed by Syr Konrad, the Grim bleed damage and game-ending reanimation through Rise of the Dark Realms. While the strategy boasts formidable inevitability, its reliance on high-mana sorceries and lack of sweepers demand careful threat management.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ashiok, Sculptor of Fears
  • 1 Avatar of Woe
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Captain N'ghathrod
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Coastal Peak
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Counterpoint
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Court of Locthwain
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Cruel Ultimatum
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Doomsday Excruciator
  • 1 Dreamborn Muse
  • 1 Elder Brain
  • 1 Evil Twin
  • 1 Exhibition Tidecaller
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Gravepurge
  • 1 Grindstone
  • 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Imperious Mindbreaker
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jace Beleren
  • 1 Jaxis, the Troublemaker
  • 1 Lord Xander, the Collector
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mirari
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Necrogoyf
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Reenact the Crime
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sphinx Mindbreaker
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 Teferi's Tutelage
  • 1 Tergrid's Shadow
  • 1 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Tramway Station
  • 1 Uchuulon
  • 1 Umbris, Fear Manifest
  • 1 Undercover Operative
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Waterfront District
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Xander's Lounge
  • 1 Zagras, Thief of Heartbeats