Art by Miguel Iglesias
Commander deckC
S.S. Botany Bay
Fill the graveyard with colossal colorless threats using discard and looting engines, exile them under S.S. Botany Bay with its tap ability, and swing with evasion to cheat an overwhelming army directly onto the battlefield.
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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.
Commander
1S.S. Botany Bay
3Legendary Artifact — Spacecraft
Chosen commander for the requested strategy.
Ramp
12
Card Draw
10
The One Ring
4Legendary Artifact
incredible repeatable card advantage and protection
Palantír of Orthanc
3Legendary Artifact
mills high-cost threats or draws extra cards
Mask of Memory
2Artifact — Equipment
draws and discards creatures when commander connects
Smuggler's Copter
2Artifact — Vehicle
evasive looter to discard expensive creatures
Removal
10
Introduction to Annihilation
5Sorcery — Lesson
cheap exile for any nonland permanent
Calamity of the Titans
4CCSorcery
asymmetrical board wipe exiling low-power threats
Meteor Golem
7Artifact Creature — Golem
versatile removal on a reanimatable creature body
Cityscape Leveler
8Artifact Creature — Construct
repeatable nonland destruction on cast and attack
Duplicant
6Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter
exiles a creature and copies its stats
Threats/Wincons
22
Void Winnower
9Creature — Eldrazi
devastating stax piece that halts opponent plays
It That Betrays
12Creature — Eldrazi
steals enemy permanents as they are sacrificed
Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
10Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
indestructible game-ending mill and beatdown threat
Kozilek, the Broken Reality
9Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
massive body that disrupts hands and manifests targets
Kozilek, the Great Distortion
8CCLegendary Creature — Eldrazi
huge evasive threat that refills hand and counters spells
Ulamog, the Defiler
10Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
massive annihilator that strips opponent libraries
Flayer of Loyalties
8CCCreature — Eldrazi
steals opponent creatures and gives them trample and annihilator
Artisan of Kozilek
9Creature — Eldrazi
annihilator threat that backs up reanimation
Zhulodok, Void Gorger
5CLegendary Creature — Eldrazi
grants double cascade to massive colorless spells
Triplicate Titan
9Artifact Creature — Golem
flying vigilance trampler that leaves behind tokens
Wurmcoil Engine
6Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Wurm
lifelink deathtouch beater that splits upon death
Phyrexian Triniform
9Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Golem
giant attacker that leaves three 3/3 golems
Darksteel Colossus
11Artifact Creature — Golem
indestructible trampling juggernaut
Ancient Stone Idol
10Artifact Creature — Golem
flash trampler that spawns a token upon dying
Myr Battlesphere
7Artifact Creature — Myr Construct
produces an army and deals direct damage
Steel Hellkite
6Artifact Creature — Dragon
flying threat with built-in token and permanent wiping
Platinum Emperion
8Artifact Creature — Golem
locks life total to prevent damage-based losses
Sandstone Oracle
7Artifact Creature — Sphinx
large flyer that equalizes your hand size with opponents
Roaming Throne
4Artifact Creature — Golem
doubles triggered abilities of chosen creature types
Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
5Creature — Avatar // Sorcery
taxes opponents or copies their noncreature spells
Utility
8
Key to the City
2Artifact
discards creatures into the graveyard and makes commander unblockable
Unwinding Clock
4Artifact
untaps Botany Bay on every player's turn to rapidly load threats
Lightning Greaves
2Artifact — Equipment
free haste and shroud for commander and reanimated threats
Swiftfoot Boots
2Artifact — Equipment
protects the commander while granting haste
Whispersilk Cloak
3Artifact — Equipment
guarantees unblockable combat damage to trigger reanimation
