Which Witch by Firster

Format: Commander

Commander: Tasha, the Witch Queen

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir midrange strategy centered on Tasha, the Witch Queen. It blends theft, mill, and sacrifice elements into a control engine. The game plan focuses on filling opposing graveyards with cards like Court of Cunning, Ruin Crab, and Tasha's Hideous Laughter, then using Tasha to cast those exiled spells for free while building an army of 3/3 Demon creature tokens. Powerful backup threats such as Consuming Aberration, Umbris, Fear Manifest, and Xanathar, Guild Kingpin scale naturally with cards in exile and graveyards. The deck maintains control using efficient interaction like Mana Drain, Deadly Rollick, Toxic Deluge, and Cyclonic Rift. While the list lacks fast infinite combo finishes, it generates compounding card advantage and board pressure that overwhelms opponents over several turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abyssal Harvester
  • 1 Accursed Witch // Infectious Curse
  • 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archenemy's Charm
  • 1 Ashiok, Nightmare Muse
  • 1 Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bubbling Cauldron
  • 1 Cauldron Familiar
  • 1 Chittering Witch
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Plate
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Extract Brain
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Gumdrop Poisoner // Tempt with Treats
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Kasmina, Enigmatic Mentor
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana's Talent
  • 1 Luxior, Giada's Gift
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mnemonic Betrayal
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nightveil Specter
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Phenax, God of Deception
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Siphon Insight
  • 1 Smirking Spelljacker
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 17 Swamp
  • 1 Sweettooth Witch
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 Tasha, the Witch Queen
  • 1 The Chain Veil
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Tinybones, the Pickpocket
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Trinket Mage
  • 1 Twisted Sewer-Witch
  • 1 Umbris, Fear Manifest
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Veinwitch Coven
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Witch of the Moors
  • 1 Witch's Cauldron
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Witch's Oven
  • 1 Xanathar, Guild Kingpin