I am The Collector // Lord Xander

Commander / EDH Mill Theft UBR (Grixis) Voltron

Oakiegg

Artifact (29)

• 1x Blade of Selves
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Cursed Mirror
• 1x Fire Diamond
• 1x Jinxed Choker
• 1x Lantern of Insight
• 1x Liar's Pendulum
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mirror Box
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Proteus Staff
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of Body and Mind
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice
• 1x Sword of Hearth and Home
• 1x Sword of Light and Shadow
• 1x Sword of Truth and Justice
• 1x Sword of War and Peace
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Vedalken Shackles

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Control Magic
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Treachery

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Dack Fayden

Land (36)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 6x Island
• 1x Maestros Theater
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x River of Tears
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Xander's Lounge

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Blatant Thievery
• 1x Blue Sun's Twilight
• 1x Bribery
• 1x Cut Your Losses
• 1x Eldritch Pact
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Tasha's Hideous Laughter

Commander (1)

Creature (15)

• 1x Agent of Treachery
• 1x Bruvac the Grandiloquent
• 1x Callous Oppressor
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Delina, Wild Mage
• 1x Empress Galina
• 1x Glasspool Mimic  ^Flip
• 1x Hellkite Courser
• 1x Herald of Slaanesh
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Tribute Mage
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Xanathar, Guild Kingpin

Instant (6)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Essence Flux
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip

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Land (10)

• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mount Doom
• 1x Murkwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Riverglide Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Searstep Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Training Center

Instant (1)

• 1x Archmage's Charm

Creature (7)

• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
• 1x Memnarch
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Sakashima of a Thousand Faces

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Field of Dreams
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study

Artifact (6)

• 1x Bubble Matrix
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Netherborn Altar
• 1x Relic of Sauron
• 1x The Deck of Many Things

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Acquire
• 1x Breaking / Entering
• 1x Vandalblast

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v2.1

As soon as I saw the premiere Grixis commander being teased in the Streets of New Capenna, I knew I had to have it. Unfortunately, early on, the thought was shared by just about everyone else excited for the set, and the wall of text on the fancy new vampire had enough people disregarding his {4}{U}{B}{R}, and jettisoning the gilded card's cost upward of $120. About a year later and the same card is worth a tenth of that value or so, and I realized it was time to build.

I have enough commanders now that I'm looking past "what makes a deck good" with more of a focus on "what makes a deck unique or thematic?" I think Lord Xander is easier than a few other Grixis commanders in finding that particular niche, and the focus of this deck is right in his name: Collecting.

There'll be plenty of cards with a specific focus on just taking things away from our opponents, and even more to make copies of creatures on the battlefield. This comes as a two-pronged assault: We can use cards like Helm of the Host and the Sakashima the Impostor cards to clone not just our opponent's big swingers, but also Lord Xander, the Collector himself to make some very silly swings to hitting our poor friends for half their libraries. The theme with Xander and milling, in my mind, is simple: "If I can't have it, nobody can." With that in mind, we are packing a few cards -- Maddening Cacaphony, Cut Your Losses, and others -- to really start hammering down our opponents' libraries. Bog em' or Rise of the Dark Realms for a big splashy game-ender!

Another theme that I think both fit the deck and helps its weakest spot is a helpful amount of mana ramping. It will come in the form of primary artifacts, because it's Lord Xander, and he probably has a wide variety of artifacts in his collection! The deck as constructed will have some pretty hefty mana values on a lot of the cards (Looking at you, commander) that are a particularly rough pain point to get past in Grixis. I've got a Myrkul deck where ramping out the grave-enchanter is as easy as 3 or 4 turns with consistency, but in this Xander deck, we need more options. Right now we are running the full UBR sets of Signets and Talismans, along with a few other budget commander favorites that I plan to pimp out as the ability comes. (because Lord Xander needs the good stuff, you know?)

A more potent and fun addition I've made recently is shifting the artifact focus from Ramp to Swords+, wherein I'm running as many full-art swords as I can currently afford. In playtesting, it seems the swords can get overwhelmingly strong very quickly, and turn something as simple as a Trophy Mage attack into a monstrous tutor engine when combo'd up with Sword of Hearth and Home. In fact, Hearth and Home has been one of the most consistently good swords I've used since so many creatures in the deck give us nice ETB effects such as Agent of Treachery giving us a good amount of our enemies permanents. Maybe just toss it on a Solemn Simulacrum and swing at someone in White and Green, and you'll be bringing in 2 extra lands per combat. A Swing with Xander attached with Sword of Body and Mind could be an instant kill with Bruvac the Grandiloquent on the field. There are many other silly "knicknack" artifacts that Xander has curated over the years. Weird pieces like Liar's Pendulum give us the janky ability to draw some cards through minigame shenanigans, and Lantern of Insight is a mini-counter and personal wink to a friend who loves to look at the top card of his library-I wanna see too!

I'm hoping at the end of the day to use this deck not as a big bad winner, but one that's a sinister "mister steals your girl" deck that's more focused on causing a modicum of chaos -- my favorite part of my favorite color pie -- while providing a spooky nemesis on the table that's a counterpart to a friend's New Cappenna Falco Spara, Pactweaver deck. We've got dreams of having "street wars" as a game night possibility, and this is my submission to the table.

Date added	1 year
Last updated	10 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.28
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Dack Fayden, Human 2/2 G, Treasure, Wolf 2/2 G
Folders	Mill Concept, Decks thats not mine