Art by Sam Kennedy
Commander deckU
Scotty, Miracle Worker
Fill the graveyard with impactful instant and sorcery spells while deploying cheap creatures with enter-the-battlefield abilities. Use Scotty's beam me up ability to recast spells from the yard by bouncing creatures for repeated value and overwhelming token generation.
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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 · 61 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
1Scotty, Miracle Worker
1UULegendary Creature — Human Artificer
Chosen commander for the requested strategy.
Ramp
10
Ornithopter of Paradise
2Artifact Creature — Thopter
cheap creature that ramps and can be bounced to beam spells up
Card Draw
10
Archmage Emeritus
2UUCreature — Human Wizard
draws cards on every instant or sorcery cast
Mulldrifter
4UCreature — Elemental
great card advantage creature to repeatedly bounce and recast
Watcher for Tomorrow
1UCreature — Human Wizard
impulse card selection that triggers on leaving the battlefield
Cloudkin Seer
2UCreature — Elemental Wizard
draws on entry and provides cheap bounce fodder
Wavebreak Hippocamp
2UEnchantment Creature — Horse Fish
rewards casting spells on opponents' turns
Removal
10
Aether Channeler
2UCreature — Human Wizard
flexible creature that can bounce permanents or draw cards
Venser, Shaper Savant
2UULegendary Creature — Human Wizard
reusable flash bounce for spells and permanents
Threats/Wincons
22
Talrand, Sky Summoner
2UULegendary Creature — Merfolk Wizard
creates 2/2 flying drakes on spell casts
Murmuring Mystic
3UCreature — Human Wizard
produces evasive bird illusions from spells
Poppet Stitcher // Poppet Factory
2UCreature — Human Wizard // Artifact
creates zombie tokens and transforms into a massive anthem
Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration
3UUCreature — Insect Horror // Creature — Eldrazi Insect
spawns wizards and transforms into a lethal lord
Deekah, Fractal Theorist
4ULegendary Creature — Human Wizard
generates growing fractal creature tokens from spells
Haughty Djinn
1UUCreature — Djinn
huge flying threat that also discounts instants and sorceries
Tolarian Terror
6UCreature — Serpent
cheap ward-protected beater fueled by the graveyard
Hullbreaker Horror
5UUCreature — Kraken Horror
unstoppable control finisher that bounces permanents on cast
Cryptic Serpent
5UUCreature — Serpent
massively discounted heavy hitter in spell-heavy decks
Chrome Host Seedshark
2UCreature — Phyrexian Shark
incubates scalable artifacts whenever spells are cast
Faerie Mastermind
1UCreature — Faerie Rogue
efficient flash creature that punishes extra opponent draws
Peregrine Drake
4UCreature — Drake
untaps lands and combos with bounce effects for mana
Snapcaster Mage
1UCreature — Human Wizard
gives instant flashback and provides a bounce target
Baral, Chief of Compliance
1ULegendary Creature — Human Wizard
spell cost reducer that loots on successful counterspells
Spellseeker
2UCreature — Human Wizard
tutors key low-cost instants or sorceries on entry
Tribute Mage
2UCreature — Human Wizard
fetches important two-mana utility artifacts
Trinket Mage
2UCreature — Human Wizard
fetches Sol Ring and other cheap utility artifacts
Displacer Kitten
3UCreature — Cat Beast
blinks creatures on spell casts to reuse ETBs infinitely
Thassa's Oracle
UUCreature — Merfolk Wizard
alternate win condition for heavy self-mill strategies
Laboratory Maniac
2UCreature — Human Wizard
back-up win condition when the library runs empty
Shrieking Drake
UCreature — Drake
one-mana creature that returns itself or others to hand at will
Faerie Seer
UCreature — Faerie Wizard
one-mana flyer with scry that is ideal bounce fodder
Utility
9
Lightning Greaves
2Artifact — Equipment
protects Scotty from spot removal with shroud
Thought Scour
UInstant
mills cards directly into the graveyard to supply beam me up targets
Otherworldly Gaze
UInstant
surveils deeply into the library with flashback utility
Swan Song
UInstant
protects combo turns from opposing instant and sorcery interaction
Panharmonicon
4Artifact
doubles all enter-the-battlefield triggers from bounced creatures
