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Grand Arbiter Augustin IV Commander Deck

Grand Arbiter Augustin IV sits at the center of a taxing stax strategy, reducing the cost of your own white and blue spells while making every spell opponents cast cost more, creating a persistent mana disadvantage that slows the entire table. The deck layers on additional attack taxes through creatures and enchantments that demand opponents pay extra mana for each attacking creature, backed by walls and damage-prevention effects to make combat virtually impossible, while counterspells and targeted removal handle the most pressing threats. The deck wins by generating incremental value through card draw triggered by opponents' taxed actions, producing tokens via Luminarch Ascension or Shark Typhoon as the game drags on, and ultimately overwhelming opponents who have been starved of tempo and resources.

Decklist

• Luminarch Ascension
• Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• Academy Ruins
• Maze of Ith
• Celestial Colonnade
• Restless Anchorage
• Azorius Signet
• Thought Vessel
• 8× Island
• Glacial Fortress
• Prairie Stream
• Sea of Clouds
• Deserted Beach
• Temple of Enlightenment
• Mystic Gate
• Floodfarm Verge
• Nimbus Maze
• Skycloud Expanse
• Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
• Tranquil Cove
• Azorius Guildgate
• 8× Plains
• Boomerang
• Imprisoned in the Moon
• Wall of Denial
• Wall of Omens
• Fog Bank
• Guard Gomazoa
• Dawn of Hope
• Cosmos Elixir
• Path to Exile
• Supreme Verdict
• Blind Obedience
• Windborn Muse
• Pariah
• Stuffy Doll
• Wrath of God
• Sol Ring
• Arcane Signet
• Archangel of Tithes
• Sun Titan
• Aetherize
• Sphinx's Revelation
• Stroke of Midnight
• Frantic Search
• Preordain
• Austere Command
• Isochron Scepter
• Sphere of Safety
• Shark Typhoon
• Authority of the Consuls
• Trouble in Pairs
• Monologue Tax
• Monastery Siege
• Karmic Justice
• Reliquary Tower
• Command Tower
• Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• Mocking Doppelganger
• Dissipation Field
• Crawlspace
• White Sun's Twilight
• Talisman of Progress
• Mind Stone
• Dawn Charm
• Esper Sentinel
• Propaganda
• Ghostly Prison
• Grand Abolisher
• Swords to Plowshares
• Dovin's Veto
• Counterspell
• Baird, Steward of Argive
• The Council of Four
• Isperia, Supreme Judge
• Unsettled Mariner
• Archon of Absolution
• Spark Double
• Pippin, Guard of the Citadel
• Darksteel Mutation
• Spurnmage Advocate
• Curiosity
• Ponder
• Laser Screwdriver
• Land Tax