Polymorph is dumb in pvp by user8301684

Format: Commander

Commander: Jace, Multiverse Architect

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a four-color control deck commanded by Jace, Multiverse Architect, designed to cheat massive creatures and planeswalkers onto the battlefield ahead of curve. Early turns focus on fixing mana with low-cost mana rocks and establishing repeatable token generators such as Skrelv's Hive and Dreadhorde Invasion. On Turn 4, Jace enters and uses his -3 ability to exile a token and polymorph into game-warping bombs like Archon of Cruelty, Archfiend of Despair, Serra's Emissary, or Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh. While Jace's passive ability taxes opposing attacks, the deck controls the board with versatile spot removal and sweepers like Sunfall and White Sun's Twilight. Win conditions rely on compounding value, planeswalker attrition, and high-power aerial combat to systematically eliminate opponents by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dack Fayden, Helping Hand
  • 1 Darksteel Angel
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Fatehold Charm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grand Crescendo
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Jace, Multiverse Architect
  • 1 Jace, Reality Sculptor
  • 1 Jhoira, Weatherlight Corsair
  • 1 Kher Keep
  • 1 Lingering Souls
  • 1 Martial Coup
  • 1 Mass Polymorph
  • 1 Memnarch, the Warden
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, the Deceiver
  • 1 Nissa, Leyline Tamer
  • 1 Oath of Teferi
  • 1 Occult Epiphany
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of the Void
  • 1 Overlord of the Mistmoors
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Perilous Landscape
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Plan for All Outcomes
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Proteus Staff
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Restless Anchorage
  • 1 Restless Spire
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Secure the Wastes
  • 1 Serra's Emissary
  • 1 Shark Typhoon
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Skrelv's Hive
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of the Storyteller
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunfall
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Synthetic Destiny
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tamiyo, Upriser Crowned
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Turbulent Crater
  • 1 Turbulent Shore
  • 1 Turbulent Wetlands
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Venser, Fervent Forger
  • 1 Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
  • 1 Whirlwind of Thought
  • 1 White Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Windcrag Siege