Art by Anastasia Balakchina
Commander deckU
Pharaoh Rama-Tut
Cast cheap noncreature spells to repeatedly trigger Pharaoh Rama-Tut's connive ability, sculpting your hand while growing your commander into a lethal voltron threat supported by spellslinger token generators.
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Deck anatomy
What this list actually runs on: how cheaply it casts things, and whether it has enough ramp, card draw and interaction to keep up at the table. Each block is one card — hover for its name.
Mana curve · 62 nonland cards
The working parts
Counted from Scryfall’s community card tags, not from the builder’s own labels. A card that does two jobs counts twice, so these add up to more than the deck. The hatched band is a common rule of thumb, not a law — combo decks run leaner, battlecruiser decks heavier.
Colored mana symbols
Commander
1Pharaoh Rama-Tut
4ULegendary Creature — Human Noble Villain
Chosen commander for the requested strategy.
Ramp
10
Sapphire Medallion
2Artifact
Reduces the cost of all blue spells to accelerate connive chains
Midnight Clock
2UArtifact
Provides mana and eventually refills the hand and reshuffles the graveyard
Heraldic Banner
3Artifact
Ramps mana while buffing your blue attackers and tokens
Card Draw
10
Brainstorm
UInstant
Cheap noncreature cantrip to manipulate the top of the library and trigger connive
Consider
UInstant
Instant-speed cantrip that fuels the graveyard for spell payoffs
Frantic Search
2UInstant
Effectively free noncreature spell that digs deep and synergizes with discard
Archmage Emeritus
2UUCreature — Human Wizard
Draws a card whenever you cast an instant or sorcery
Wavebreak Hippocamp
2UEnchantment Creature — Horse Fish
Rewards casting interaction on opponents' turns with extra card draw
Teferi's Ageless Insight
2UULegendary Enchantment
Doubles every card drawn, including from connive triggers
Removal
11
Fierce Guardianship
2UInstant
Free protection spell when Rama-Tut is on the battlefield
Negate
1UInstant
Dependable protection against noncreature spells and board wipes
An Offer You Can't Refuse
UInstant
One-mana counterspell for critical noncreature spells
Threats/Wincons
22
Talrand, Sky Summoner
2UULegendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard
Creates an army of 2/2 Drakes from noncreature spells
Murmuring Mystic
3UCreature — Human Wizard
Spits out flying Bird Illusion tokens on spell cast
Shark Typhoon
5UEnchantment
Creates scaling flying Shark tokens whenever noncreature spells are cast
Haughty Djinn
1UUCreature — Djinn
Reduces spell costs and scales into a massive flying threat
Tolarian Terror
6UCreature — Serpent
Costs a single blue mana once the graveyard is loaded with spells
Cryptic Serpent
5UUCreature — Serpent
Massive cheap beater that capitalizes on a spell-filled graveyard
Deekah, Fractal Theorist
4ULegendary Creature — Human Wizard
Generates scaling Fractal tokens whenever you cast spells
Metallurgic Summonings
3UUEnchantment
Turns noncreature spells into Construct tokens and can recur spells later
Ominous Seas
1UEnchantment
Converts frequent connive and draw triggers into 8/8 Kraken tokens
Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration
3UUCreature — Insect Horror // Creature — Eldrazi Insect
Spawns Wizards and eventually flips into a massive board-wide buff
Minn, Wily Illusionist
1UULegendary Creature — Gnome Wizard
Triggers on your second card drawn each turn to make scaling Illusions
Chasm Skulker
2UCreature — Squid Horror
Grows rapidly from conniving and bursts into an army of Squids
Nadir Kraken
1UUCreature — Kraken
Creates Tentacle tokens and grows larger with every card drawn
The Watcher in the Water
3UULegendary Creature — Kraken
Capitalizes on drawing cards during opponent turns to control the board and win
Poppet Stitcher // Poppet Factory
2UCreature — Human Wizard // Artifact
Creates Zombie tokens that transform into 3/3 beaters
Alandra, Sky Dreamer
2UULegendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard
Creates flying Drakes whenever you draw two or more cards
Hullbreaker Horror
5UUCreature — Kraken Horror
Uncounterable game-ending spell slinger that bounces opposing boards
Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
3UULegendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor // Enchantment — Saga
Doubles your noncreature artifacts/instants/sorceries and counters opponents' first spells
Chrome Host Seedshark
2UCreature — Phyrexian Shark
Incubates scaling Phyrexian artifact creatures whenever noncreature spells resolve
Proft's Eidetic Memory
1ULegendary Enchantment
Removes maximum hand size and loads +1/+1 counters onto Rama-Tut
Wizard Class
UEnchantment — Class
Buffs your commander while removing hand limit and adding card draw
Blackblade Reforged
2Legendary Artifact — Equipment
Makes Rama-Tut huge for swift commander-damage knockouts
Utility
9
Lightning Greaves
2Artifact — Equipment
Protects Rama-Tut with shroud and gives haste to attack immediately
Swiftfoot Boots
2Artifact — Equipment
Grants hexproof and haste while allowing targeted buffs
Shadowspear
1Legendary Artifact — Equipment
Grants trample, lifelink, and removes enemy hexproof/indestructible
Aqueous Form
UEnchantment — Aura
Gives unblockable evasion and scrys with every attack
Slip Through Space
USorcery
Cantrip that makes Rama-Tut unblockable to push through commander damage
Winged Boots
1UArtifact — Equipment
Grants flying and ward {4} for extreme layers of commander protection
Spellseeker
2UCreature — Human Wizard
Tutors up key low-cost instants and sorceries
Snapcaster Mage
1UCreature — Human Wizard
Rebuys vital interaction or cantrips from the graveyard
Laboratory Maniac
2UCreature — Human Wizard
Alternate win condition if connive chains draw your entire library
