Art by Greg Staples
Commander deckBUW
Sen Triplets
Control the table with taxing effects and efficient board wipes while stealing opposing resources. Finish the game through devastating mill synergies like Mindcrank combos and Bruvac.
Asked for“taxes, thief, interact, boardwipe, millcon”
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
1Sen Triplets
2WUBLegendary Artifact Creature — Human Wizard
Chosen commander for the requested strategy.
Ramp
10
Card Draw
10
Esper Sentinel
WArtifact Creature — Human Soldier
early taxing body that draws cards
Ledger Shredder
1UCreature — Bird Advisor
punishes multi-spelling with looting and incidental mill
Notion Thief
2UBCreature — Human Rogue
steals opponent card draw and punishes wheels
Removal
12
Threats/Wincons
22
Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
2WULegendary Creature — Human Advisor
taxes opponents while reducing the cost of our spells
Drannith Magistrate
1WCreature — Human Wizard
hard lock against commanders and cast-from-exile theft
Dauthi Voidwalker
BBCreature — Dauthi Rogue
graveyard hate that steals opposing milled spells
Opposition Agent
2BCreature — Human Rogue
punishes tutors and steals search targets
Hostage Taker
2UBCreature — Human Pirate
temporary removal that permanently steals creatures or artifacts
Thief of Sanity
1UBCreature — Specter
mills opponent cards on combat damage and casts them
Gonti, Lord of Luxury
2BBLegendary Creature — Aetherborn Rogue
enters and steals the best card from an opponent library
Tasha, the Witch Queen
3UBLegendary Planeswalker — Tasha
planeswalker that steals spells from opposing graveyards and makes demons
Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
1UBLegendary Planeswalker — Ashiok
exiles cards from libraries and steals opposing creatures
Ashiok, Dream Render
1UBUBLegendary Planeswalker — Ashiok
blocks tutors and continuously mills all opponents
Mindcrank
2Artifact
key mill engine that combos with Bloodchief Ascension and Duskmantle Guildmage
Bloodchief Ascension
BEnchantment
drains opponents whenever cards hit their graveyard
Duskmantle Guildmage
UBCreature — Human Wizard
infinite mill and damage combo piece with Mindcrank
Bruvac the Grandiloquent
2ULegendary Creature — Human Advisor
doubles all mill effects to rapidly empty libraries
Tasha's Hideous Laughter
1UUSorcery
asymmetric mill that exiles opposing win conditions
Court of Cunning
1UUEnchantment
monarch engine that aggressively mills opponents each upkeep
Brainstealer Dragon
5BBCreature — Dragon Horror
exiles cards from opponents each turn and burns them as they are played
Arvinox, the Mind Flail
4BBBLegendary Enchantment Creature — Horror
steals cards from libraries and becomes a massive threat
Xanathar, Guild Kingpin
4UBLegendary Creature — Beholder
shuts off opponent interaction while stealing topdecks
Utility
8
Lightning Greaves
2Artifact — Equipment
protects commander and key theft creatures with shroud
Teferi's Protection
2WInstant
ultimate defensive interactive spell against wipes and lethal attacks
Ghostly Prison
2WEnchantment
attack tax to prevent aggressive creature decks from rushing us
Blind Obedience
1WEnchantment
taxes fast artifact mana and haste threats while offering extort drain
Aven Mindcensor
2WCreature — Bird Wizard
flash tax creature that severely restricts library searches
