Art by Raymond Bonilla
Commander deckC
U.S.S. Farragut, Bold Explorer
Ramp quickly into U.S.S. Farragut, using repeatable land-drop engines to cheat game-ending Eldrazi and artifact colossi onto the battlefield with haste, stationing them to animate the ship or attacking before recycling them for card draw.
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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
1U.S.S. Farragut, Bold Explorer
6Legendary Artifact — Spacecraft
Chosen commander for the requested strategy.
Ramp
12
Burnished Hart
3Artifact Creature — Elk
sacrifices to put two lands into play for double landfall triggers
Solemn Simulacrum
4Artifact Creature — Golem
puts a land into play to immediately trigger Farragut
Card Draw
8
Mystic Forge
4Artifact
plays colorless spells directly from the top of your library
The One Ring
4Legendary Artifact
provides protection and compounding colorless card draw
Palantír of Orthanc
3Legendary Artifact
punishes opponents with immense damage or draws extra cards
Staff of Nin
6Artifact
guarantees an extra draw each turn and picks off utility creatures
The Immortal Sun
6Legendary Artifact
boosts your creatures, provides extra draw, and shuts down planeswalkers
Removal
10
All Is Dust
7Kindred Sorcery — Eldrazi
one-sided board wipe that leaves your colorless board untouched
Calamity of the Titans
4CCSorcery
exiles opposing creatures based on the high mana values in your hand
Titan's Presence
3Instant
exiles large creatures by revealing a high-power Eldrazi
Introduction to Annihilation
5Sorcery — Lesson
flexible colorless answer to any problematic permanent
Oblivion Stone
3Artifact
board sweeper that can protect key assets with fate counters
Nevinyrral's Disk
4Artifact
efficient sweeper for creatures, artifacts, and enchantments
Duplicant
6Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter
exiles a creature on entry and adopts its stats for stationing
Meteor Golem
7Artifact Creature — Golem
destroys any permanent on entry when cheated into play
Threats/Wincons
24
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
10Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
massive annihilator threat that refills your hand on cast
Kozilek, the Great Distortion
8CCLegendary Creature — Eldrazi
imposing body that counters spells and refills your hand
Kozilek, the Broken Reality
9Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
disrupts opponents' hands and deploys huge Eldrazi bodies
Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
10Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
indestructible attacker that mills twenty cards per swing
Ulamog, the Defiler
10Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
gains annihilator and counters to demolish boards immediately
Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
11Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
indestructible behemoth with annihilator 4
Emrakul, the Promised End
13Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
commanding flyer that hijacks an opponent's turn
Emrakul, the World Anew
12Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
steals all creatures an opponent controls when cast
It That Betrays
12Creature — Eldrazi
steals all permanents opponents sacrifice to your attacks
Blightsteel Colossus
12Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Golem
cheats into play with haste for sudden one-hit infect lethal
Cityscape Leveler
8Artifact Creature — Construct
destroys nonland permanents on cast and every attack
Wurmcoil Engine
6Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Wurm
lifelink and deathtouch threat that leaves tokens behind
Triplicate Titan
9Artifact Creature — Golem
evasive beater that splits into three powerful tokens when it leaves
Phyrexian Triniform
9Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Golem
high-power threat that leaves behind three 3/3 golems
Darksteel Colossus
11Artifact Creature — Golem
indestructible trampler that easily powers Farragut's station threshold
Artisan of Kozilek
9Creature — Eldrazi
huge annihilator body that reanimates a threat upon cast
Pathrazer of Ulamog
11Creature — Eldrazi
virtually unblockable creature with devastating annihilator 3
Ancient Stone Idol
10Artifact Creature — Golem
trampling golem with flash that leaves behind a token when it dies
Steel Hellkite
6Artifact Creature — Dragon
flying threat that sweeps opposing tokens and low-cost permanents
Endbringer
5CCreature — Eldrazi
untaps on every turn to ping, draw cards, or prevent attacks
Sandstone Oracle
7Artifact Creature — Sphinx
large flyer that equalizes your hand size with the fullest opponent
Platinum Angel
7Artifact Creature — Angel
prevents you from losing and stops opponents from winning
Platinum Emperion
8Artifact Creature — Golem
8/8 threat that freezes your life total
Utility
8
Walking Atlas
2Artifact Creature — Construct
taps to drop lands from hand at instant speed to trigger Farragut
Sword of the Animist
2Legendary Artifact — Equipment
attacks to tutor a basic land onto the battlefield for landfall
Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus
3Legendary Artifact — Equipment
creates an attacking body and fetches lands to trigger landfall every turn
Expedition Map
1Artifact
searches for key utility lands to guarantee your landfall triggers
Crucible of Worlds
3Artifact
replays lands from the graveyard to ensure consistent landfall
Lightning Greaves
2Artifact — Equipment
protects Farragut or enables free haste for hardcast threats
Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
5Creature — Avatar // Sorcery
taxes opponents' noncreature spells and copies them
