mothy by jaygorb

Format: Commander

Commander: The Wise Mothman

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

An aggressive Sultai mill-and-counter shell. The Wise Mothman turns rad counters and every incidental mill effect into +1/+1 counters, creating oversized creatures while fueling card-draw synergies like Fathom Mage, Danny Pink, and Terrasymbiosis. Secondary plans run through graveyard recursion (Six, Evolution Witness, Muldrotha) and two compact combos: Ouroboroid plus Sage of Hours produces infinite turns, and Bloodchief Ascension plus Mindcrank plus The Master of Lake-town mills all opponents out. The commander is a flexible value engine rather than a required combo piece, so the deck can pivot from beatdown to controlled combo depending on the draw. Most games end by attacking with a massive, trample-granted board after the milling engine has filled every graveyard.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Basking Broodscale
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Danny Pink
  • 1 Deepmuck Desperado
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fathom Mage
  • 1 Fetid Gargantua
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flitterwing Nuisance
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Generous Patron
  • 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Herd Baloth
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hollowmurk Siege
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Kodama of the West Tree
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nuclear Fallout
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pollywog Prodigy
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Retribution of the Ancients
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sage of Hours
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tato Farmer
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 The Wise Mothman
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undead Alchemist
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Winding Constrictor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zagoth Triome
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer