ARthur

Format: Commander

Commander: Arthur, Marigold Knight

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This Jeskai deck is led by Arthur, Marigold Knight, a commander designed to cheat massive creatures into play tapped and attacking whenever he attacks alongside a partner creature. The deck curves low-cost utility creatures and mana rocks on Turns 1 through 3, establishing the necessary attack partner before deploying Arthur on Turn 4 with haste. Once attacking, Arthur looks six cards deep to drop game-warping bombs like Gisela, Blade of Goldnight, Balefire Dragon, Terror of the Peaks, or Moonshaker Cavalry. Although cheated creatures return to hand at end of combat, blink enablers such as Ephemerate, Soulherder, Brago, King Eternal, and Abuelo, Ancestral Echo exile and return them, bypassing Arthur's delayed bounce trigger and keeping them permanently on the battlefield. The strategy combines combat velocity, repeatable enter-the-battlefield value, and potent defensive counterspells to defeat the table over three successive attack steps.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abuelo, Ancestral Echo
• 1 Airbender Ascension
• 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
• 1 Angel of the Ruins
• 1 Anticausal Vestige
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arthur, Marigold Knight
• 1 Avatar's Wrath
• 1 Balefire Dragon
• 1 Bender's Waterskin
• 1 Blade Splicer
• 1 Boros Charm
• 1 Brago, King Eternal
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Castle Ardenvale
• 1 Charming Prince
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Clever Impersonator
• 1 Clifftop Retreat
• 1 Comeuppance
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Curious Colossus
• 1 Doc Ock's Tentacles
• 1 Dour Port-Mage
• 1 Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale
• 1 Ephemerate
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Expressive Iteration
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Flood Plain
• 1 Gemstone Caverns
• 1 Ghostly Flicker
• 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Inferno Titan
• 1 Insight Engine
• 4 Island
• 1 Karmic Guide
• 1 Land Tax
• 1 Lavinia of the Tenth
• 1 Loran of the Third Path
• 1 Marang River Regent // Coil and Catch
• 1 Military Intelligence
• 1 Moonshaker Cavalry
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 No More Lies
• 1 Overlord of the Mistmoors
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Penance
• 4 Plains
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Professional Face-Breaker
• 1 Raugrin Triome
• 1 Redirect Lightning
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Reflector Mage
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Sacred Foundry
• 1 Scroll Rack
• 1 Seachrome Coast
• 1 Seize the Spotlight
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Siege-Gang Commander
• 1 Silent Hallcreeper
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Soulherder
• 1 Spider-Sense
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Stormcarved Coast
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sundown Pass
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Taunt from the Rampart
• 1 Tax Collector
• 1 Temple of Enlightenment
• 1 Terror of the Peaks
• 1 The Neutrinos
• 1 Thieving Skydiver
• 1 Trouble in Pairs
• 1 Trumpeting Carnosaur
• 1 Twining Twins // Swift Spiral
• 1 Venser, the Sojourner