The Ancient One (Copy) by user5302199

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ancient One

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This Dimir reanimator deck uses The Ancient One as an efficient two-mana enabler that discards high-cost bombs, fills the graveyard, and becomes a massive 8/8 attacker once Descend 8 is satisfied. The primary game plan focuses on cheating overwhelming legendary creatures into play on Turn 4 using low-cost reanimation spells like Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Exhume. Reanimating oppressive lock pieces such as Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, Void Winnower, and Toxrill, the Corrosive strips opponents of cards and creatures while developing an insurmountable board presence. Supported by tutors like Entomb and Buried Alive, mass recursion from Living Death, and protective countermagic, the deck quickly pivots from asymmetric resource denial to lethal combat damage across 2 response cycles, closing games around Turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abyssal Harvester
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass
  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Silver Dragon
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bringer of the Last Gift
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Conspiracy Unraveler
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Doomsday Excruciator
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Echoing Deeps
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Island
  • 1 It That Betrays
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Ruthless Technomancer
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Superior Spider-Man
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Ancient One
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Valgavoth's Lair
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Watery Grave