The decklist
100 cards, grouped by the main job each one does, lands last. Every name links to its own page, with its win rate and the commanders it's most played under.
Card Advantage 21
- 1 Academy Wall
- 1 Archmage Emeritus
- 1 Chakra Meditation
- 1 Circle of Power
- 1 Consider
- 1 Consumed by Greed
- 1 Dreadwing Scavenger
- 1 Enter the Enigma
- 1 Fang, Fearless l'Cie
- 1 Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
- 1 Harmonized Trio
- 1 Infectious Inquiry
- 1 Jace, Unraveler of Secrets
- 1 Plea for Power
- 1 Preordain
- 1 Prologue to Phyresis
- 1 Rona, Herald of Invasion
- 1 Scion of Halaster
- 1 Secrets of the Dead
- 1 Slip Through Space
- 1 Theft of Dreams
Ramp 11
Recursion 7
Creature 7
Instant 6
Sorcery 5
Enchantment 3
Board Wipe 2
Counterspell 1
Land 30
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These are results from Commander games recorded at a table, not a rating. See commander stats worth tracking and what mmr means in magic, which rates the deck rather than its pilot.
Combos in this deck
1 combo · 1 infinite. These come from Commander Spellbook, which only knows the ones somebody has written up, so this deck can hold more than these and never fewer.
INFINITE Prologue to Phyresis + Expansion Algorithm
Bracket 4: Optimized
This is a floor, read off the cards in the list, so a deck can play higher than this and never lower. Read how the commander bracket system works, and bring it to your Rule 0 conversation.
- a two-card infinite combo (Prologue to Phyresis + Expansion Algorithm) — more than Bracket 3 allows
What it's built out of
Measured against the Balanced Midrange blueprint. Counts overlap and sum past 100, because a card counts toward every job it does, which is how deck builders count. See the 100-card commander deck template.
Slot by slot: 5 slots are outside their band, 4 inside
| Slot | In the deck | Target | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lands | 30 | 37 | 7 short |
| Ramp | 11 | 10 | On target |
| Card advantage | 25 | 10 | 15 over |
| Spot removal | 6 | 8 | On target |
| Board wipes | 2 | 3 | On target |
| Creatures | 22 | 28 | 6 short |
| Recursion | 10 | 3 | 7 over |
| Protection | 0 | 3 | 3 short |
| Tutors | 0 | 2 | On target |
| Artifacts | 5 | — | No target |
| Enchantments | 8 | — | No target |
| Instants | 17 | — | No target |
| Sorceries | 16 | — | No target |
| Planeswalkers | 3 | — | No target |
| Counterspells | 3 | — | No target |
| Token makers | 5 | — | No target |
Mana curve
Average mana value 2.83 across 70 nonland cards, against a target of 3.54. More on what makes a good curve and on building the mana base.
- 0-1 10
- 2 23
- 3 17
- 4 12
- 5 5
- 6 3
- 7+ 0
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Commander 1 Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy Deck 1 Academy Wall 1 Ancient Excavation 1 Apprentice Wizard 1 Arcane Signet 1 Archaeomancer 1 Archmage Emeritus 1 As Foretold 1 Aspirant's Ascent 1 Black Mage's Rod 1 Candlekeep Inspiration 1 Chakra Meditation 1 Circle of Power 1 Consider 1 Consumed by Greed 1 Contaminated Aquifer 1 Cornered by Black Mages 1 Counterspell 1 Curious Homunculus 1 Curse of the Swine 1 Dimir Aqueduct 1 Dismal Backwater 1 Dreadwing Scavenger 1 Elusive Spellfist 1 Enter the Enigma 1 Expansion Algorithm 1 Fang, Fearless l'Cie 1 Flux Channeler 1 Gale's Redirection 1 Gandalf, Friend of the Shire 1 Harmonized Trio 1 Haunting Figment 1 Ice Tunnel 1 Inexorable Tide 1 Infectious Inquiry 11 Island 1 Jace's Sanctum 1 Jace, Unraveler of Secrets 1 Jwar Isle Refuge 1 Karfell Harbinger 1 Karn's Bastion 1 Mana Sculpt 1 Mercurial Spelldancer 1 Mesmerizing Dose 1 Mind Stone 1 Mission Briefing 1 Moment of Truth 1 Naru Meha, Master Wizard 1 Plea for Power 1 Preordain 1 Press the Enemy 1 Professor Onyx 1 Prologue to Phyresis 1 Quistis Trepe 1 Raise Dead 1 Rise from the Tides 1 Rona, Herald of Invasion 1 Rona, Sheoldred's Faithful 1 Run Away Together 1 Salt Marsh 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue 1 Scion of Halaster 1 Secrets of the Dead 1 Sinister Hideout 1 Sky Diamond 1 Sleep 1 Slip Through Space 1 Sol Ring 1 Spellweaver Eternal 1 Strategic Planning 1 Submerged Boneyard 7 Swamp 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner 1 Terror 1 The Mirari Conjecture 1 Theft of Dreams 1 Thriving Isle 1 Treno, Dark City 1 TVA Bureaucrat 1 Vincent's Limit Break 1 Vraska's Fall 1 Vraska, Betrayal's Sting 1 Waterfront District 1 Whisper of the Dross
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