70
3/13/2025
Jon Irenicus' Gifts
Deck Size: 100
Commander
Legal
Est deck cost: $2725.98
Salt sum: 66.35
70
3/13/2025
Compare
Deck filters

Choose your preferred layout. You can change this at any time using the Deck filters / View as options above.

Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $0.49
Jon Irenicus, Shattered One

At the beginning of your end step, target opponent gains control of up to one target creature you control. Put two +1/+1 counters on it and tap it. It's goaded for the rest of the game and it gains "This creature can't be sacrificed." (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) Whenever a creature you own but don't control attacks, you draw a card.

Creature
Jon Irenicus, Shattered One (clb) 536

Commander

(CTRL to add secondary)

Drain

Qty: 3 Price: $3.93
Archfiend of the Dross

Flying This creature enters with four oil counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove an oil counter from this creature. Then if it has no oil counters on it, you lose the game. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, its controller loses 2 life.

Creature
Archfiend of the Dross (one) 82
Ebon Drake

Flying Whenever a player casts a spell, you lose 1 life.

Creature
Ebon Drake (5dn) 48
Flesh Reaver

Whenever this creature deals damage to a creature or opponent, this creature deals that much damage to you.

Creature
Flesh Reaver (dmr) 86

Drain

(CTRL to add secondary)

Protection

Qty: 3 Price: $16.97
Abyssal Persecutor

Flying, trample You can't win the game and your opponents can't lose the game.

Creature
Abyssal Persecutor (c14) 132
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (clb) 864
Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Propaganda (acr) 195

Protection

(CTRL to add secondary)

Stax

Qty: 4 Price: $51.96
Dauthi Voidwalker

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it. {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Dauthi Voidwalker (mh2) 397
Opposition Agent

Flash You control your opponents while they're searching their libraries. While an opponent is searching their library, they exile each card they find. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast them.

Creature
Opposition Agent (cmr) 141
Steel Golem

You can't cast creature spells.

Creature Artifact
Steel Golem (10e) 344
Taniwha

Trample Phasing (This phases in or out before you untap during each of your untap steps. While it's phased out, it's treated as though it doesn't exist.) At the beginning of your upkeep, all lands you control phase out. (They phase in before you untap during your next untap step.)

Creature
Taniwha (mir) 95

Stax

(CTRL to add secondary)

Clones

Qty: 2 Price: $11.98
Phantasmal Image

You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types and it has "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

Creature
Phantasmal Image (afc) 89
Phyrexian Metamorph

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) You may have this creature enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Metamorph (mkc) 116

Clones

(CTRL to add secondary)

Draw

Qty: 5 Price: $110.95
Master of the Feast

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent draws a card.

Creature Enchantment
Master of the Feast (jou) 75
Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Enchantment
Mystic Remora (dmr) 59
Necropotence

Skip your draw step. Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Enchantment
Necropotence (v09) 9
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (jmp) 169
Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

Sorcery
Windfall (p30a) 6

Draw

(CTRL to add secondary)

Ramp

Qty: 13 Price: $1236.97
Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (clb) 298
Chrome Mox

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand. {T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

Artifact
Chrome Mox (2xm) 240
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (sta) 26
Dimir Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B}.

Artifact
Dimir Signet (clb) 857
Fellwar Stone

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (clb) 860
Heartless Summoning

Creature spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. Creatures you control get -1/-1.

Enchantment
Heartless Summoning (isd) 104
Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Jet Medallion (cmm) 610
Lotus Petal

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Lotus Petal (p30m) 2
Mana Vault

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap this artifact. At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Artifact
Mana Vault (2x2) 560
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (dsc) 248
Mox Diamond

If this artifact would enter, you may discard a land card instead. If you do, put this artifact onto the battlefield. If you don't, put it into its owner's graveyard. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Mox Diamond (v10) 10
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (clb) 871
Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (clb) 877

Ramp

(CTRL to add secondary)

Tutor

Qty: 5 Price: $295.45
Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 509
Imperial Seal

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Imperial Seal (2x2) 439
Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Mystical Tutor (dmr) 60
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 108
Wishclaw Talisman

This artifact enters with three wish counters on it. {1}, {T}, Remove a wish counter from this artifact: Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. An opponent gains control of this artifact. Activate only during your turn.

Artifact
Wishclaw Talisman (eld) 110

Tutor

(CTRL to add secondary)

Copy

Qty: 1 Price: $5.49
Imposter Mech

You may have this Vehicle enter as a copy of a creature an opponent controls, except it's a Vehicle artifact with crew 3 and it loses all other card types. Crew 3

Artifact
Imposter Mech (nec) 13

Copy

(CTRL to add secondary)

Evasion

Qty: 1 Price: $4.49
Changeling Outcast

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) This creature can't block and can't be blocked.

Creature
Changeling Outcast (h1r) 12

Evasion

(CTRL to add secondary)

Recursion

Qty: 2 Price: $23.98
Gisa, Glorious Resurrector

If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. At the beginning of your upkeep, put all creature cards exiled with Gisa onto the battlefield under your control. They gain decayed. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Creature
Gisa, Glorious Resurrector (mid) 103
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (pd3) 15

Recursion

(CTRL to add secondary)

Counters

Qty: 7 Price: $185.43
Dispel

Counter target instant spell.

Instant
Dispel (bfz) 76
Flusterstorm

Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Instant
Flusterstorm (ima) 55
Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Force of Negation (2x2) 429
Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Instant
Force of Will (dmr) 50
Mental Misstep

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Counter target spell with mana value 1.

Instant
Mental Misstep (nph) 38
Miscast

Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Instant
Miscast (m21) 57
Pact of Negation

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {3}{U}{U}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Instant
Pact of Negation (tsr) 77

Counters

(CTRL to add secondary)

Finisher

Qty: 2 Price: $18.48
Ebonblade Reaper

Whenever this creature attacks, you lose half your life, rounded up. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up. Morph {3}{B}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Creature
Ebonblade Reaper (ons) 141
Hellcarver Demon

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, sacrifice all other permanents you control and discard your hand. Exile the top six cards of your library. You may cast any number of spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

Creature
Hellcarver Demon (roe) 113

Finisher

(CTRL to add secondary)

Removal

Qty: 17 Price: $256.09
Chain of Vapor

Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Then that permanent's controller may sacrifice a land of their choice. If the player does, they may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.

Instant
Chain of Vapor (c16) 84
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (cmm) 485
Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Exile target creature.

Instant
Deadly Rollick (cmm) 507
Demonic Taskmaster

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature other than this creature.

Creature
Demonic Taskmaster (avr) 95
Drinker of Sorrow

This creature can't block. Whenever this creature deals combat damage, sacrifice a permanent.

Creature
Drinker of Sorrow (lgn) 66
Ertai Resurrected

Flash When Ertai Resurrected enters, choose up to one — • Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. Its controller draws a card. • Destroy another target creature or planeswalker. Its controller draws a card.

Creature
Ertai Resurrected (dmu) 199
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (clb) 752
Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (cmm) 489
Greater Harvester

At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a permanent. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.

Creature
Greater Harvester (dst) 44
Infernal Grasp

Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Infernal Grasp (mid) 107
Mystic Reflection

Choose target nonlegendary creature. The next time one or more creatures or planeswalkers enter this turn, they enter as copies of the chosen creature. Foretell {U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Instant
Mystic Reflection (khm) 69
Phyrexian Negator

Trample Whenever this creature is dealt damage, sacrifice that many permanents.

Creature
Phyrexian Negator (dde) 1
Rust Elemental

Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice another artifact. If you can't, tap this creature and you lose 4 life.

Creature Artifact
Rust Elemental (mrd) 234
Shadowborn Demon

Flying When this creature enters, destroy target non-Demon creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are fewer than six creature cards in your graveyard, sacrifice a creature.

Creature
Shadowborn Demon (j22) 464
Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Swan Song (c16) 98
Unsubstantiate

Return target spell or creature to its owner's hand.

Instant
Unsubstantiate (emn) 79
Wrong Turn

Target opponent gains control of target creature. (If an attacking or blocking creature changes controllers, it's removed from combat.)

Instant
Wrong Turn (cmr) 107

Removal

(CTRL to add secondary)

Discard

Qty: 1 Price: $2.79
Rotting Regisaur

At the beginning of your upkeep, discard a card.

Creature
Rotting Regisaur (m20) 111

Discard

(CTRL to add secondary)

Land

Qty: 32 Price: $495.54
Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Land
Ancient Tomb (uma) 236
Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}. Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land
Ash Barrens (clb) 880
City of Brass

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
City of Brass (2x2) 570
Clearwater Pathway

Land
Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (znr) 286Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (znr) 286
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (clb) 351
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (clb) 893
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (eld) 244
Gemstone Caverns

If this card is in your opening hand and you're not the starting player, you may begin the game with Gemstone Caverns on the battlefield with a luck counter on it. If you do, exile a card from your hand. {T}: Add {C}. If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color.

Land
Gemstone Caverns (tsp) 274
Gloomlake Verge

{T}: Add {U}. {T}: Add {B}. Activate only if you control an Island or a Swamp.

Land
Gloomlake Verge (dsk) 260
Homeward Path

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Each player gains control of all creatures they own.

Land
Homeward Path (c16) 301
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (afr) 267
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (afr) 268
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (clb) 455
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (clb) 456
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (clb) 457
Mana Confluence

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Mana Confluence (cmr) 721
Morphic Pool

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Polluted Delta (ktk) 239
Prismatic Vista

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Prismatic Vista (h1r) 40
Shipwreck Marsh

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (mid) 267
Sunken Hollow

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Sunken Hollow (clb) 918
Sunken Ruins

{T}: Add {C}. {U/B}, {T}: Add {U}{U}, {U}{B}, or {B}{B}.

Land
Sunken Ruins (2xm) 326
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (afr) 271
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (afr) 272
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (afr) 273
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (clb) 459
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (clb) 460
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (clb) 461
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (clb) 462
Underground River

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Underground River (cm2) 275
Urza's Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — This Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}." II — This Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'" III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land Enchantment
Urza's Saga (mh2) 259
Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Watery Grave (grn) 259

Land

(CTRL to add secondary)

Sac Outlet

Qty: 1 Price: $4.99
Phyrexian Soulgorger

Cumulative upkeep—Sacrifice a creature. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Soulgorger (csp) 141

Sac Outlet

(CTRL to add secondary)

Deck Info

Deck stats

0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 10 cards
27 pips - 24 cards
27 mana - 25 cards
42 pips - 30 cards
32 mana - 28 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 10 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 10 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
15 mana - 11 cards
CategoriesQtyOdds
Click charts to focus on cards
Deck extras (0)

Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"The purpose of this deck is to gift opponents some of the meanest and nastiest creatures in the game, goad them and have them fight your enemies, while you sit back, draw cards and enjoy the show. As such, the deck works best in a 3+ players format. The main downside is that it's commander-reliant and therefore employs counter-spells and return-to-hand mechanics to protect Jon Irenicus.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Strategy"},{"insert":":\nYou'll be trying to ramp up and get your commander out on turn 2 or 3. With Irenicus on the table and a few counter-spells in hand to protect him, you'll either play your cheaper creatures or, if mana allows it, some of your bigger horrors and demons, which your opponents won't be able to defend against during the early game. Either way, once you give them away with your commander's ability, you'll have a nice draw engine, further reinforced by Mystic Remora and Rhystic Study;"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The constant inflow of cards, corroborated with the choice of control spells, should help slow down your opponents' strategies; soon thereafter, they'll start sacrificing stuff and their life totals will drop, as your creatures (which they control, but are goaded so can't attack you) will create mayhem on the battlefield."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Win-cons"},{"insert":":\nYou can create token copies of Archfiend of the Dross using Mystic Reflection, Phyrexian Metamorph or Phantasmal Image. Donate it and the copies to your opponents; when they reach zero oil counters, you win;"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Alternatively, you can cast Ertai Resurrected to counter Archfiend of the Dross' triggered ability, then pass it to an opponent once it already has zero oil counters on it. They're out of the game on their upkeep;"},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"You can use Homeward Path to gain control of your creatures during late game; sure, you'll suffer a little, but they're mostly big, bad beasts which can hurt your opponents more than they hurt you."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Tip"},{"insert":": if you're in big trouble, tutor Abyssal Persecutor and hand it to your most problematic opponent. That should keep them on the hook, at least for a while.\n\nIn my opinion, this is a highly enjoyable deck with unique mechanics, which will most certainly be remembered by your opponents.\n"}]}
Unable to load comments
AutoNew CategoryMaybeboardSideboard