
Maestros Massacre
Anhelo, the Painter Commander Precon
Grixis spellslinger built around Anhelo's free casualty 2. The first instant or sorcery each turn is copied by sacrificing a recurring or disposable 2-power creature, which doubles big sorceries like mass token makers, multi-target removal, theft and card draw. Copy amplifiers stack extra copies on top of casualty, and graveyard-recursive creatures keep the sacrifice fodder coming. How it wins: Copying huge token sorceries and permanent-cloning spells builds an overwhelming board (thirteen-Zombie armies, Drakes, Demons, cloned creatures), while doubled board wipes and theft keep opponents behind until the army attacks for lethal. Key roles: - Casualty fodder that comes back: cheap 2-power creatures that return from the graveyard or leave value when sacrificed, so Anhelo's copy is effectively free every turn (Squee, the Immortal, Bloodsoaked Champion, Rekindling Phoenix) - Copy amplification: effects that add further copies to Anhelo's casualty or copy the first spell independently, turning one big sorcery into three or more (Twinning Staff, Double Vision, Xander's Pact) - Doubled token and clone bombs: expensive sorceries that create or copy creatures, scaling dramatically when copied and refilling sacrifice fodder at the same time (Army of the Damned, Clone Legion, Dread Summons) - Mass removal and theft worth copying: multi-target destruction, edicts, bounce and spell-stealing that become one-sided swings when doubled (Hex, Make an Example, Flawless Forgery) - Spell recursion and cost reduction: creatures and flashback or retrace spells that recast or return key sorceries and cheapen them, keeping the first-spell trigger loaded each turn (Kess, Dissident Mage, Cormela, Glamour Thief, Goblin Electromancer) - Copy-and-death value engines: token copiers and death-trigger cards that reuse sacrificed or token creatures for extra damage, cards or bodies (Syrix, Carrier of the Flame, Mimic Vat, Determined Iteration)
Maestros Massacre decklist
- Parnesse, the Subtle Brush
- Bloodsoaked Champion
- Cormela, Glamour Thief
- Dogged Detective
- Goblin Electromancer
- Kess, Dissident Mage
- Puppeteer Clique
- Rekindling Phoenix
- Spellbinding Soprano
- Squee, the Immortal
- Sinister Concierge
- Syrix, Carrier of the Flame
- Skyclave Shade
- Woe Strider
- Army of the Damned
- Bedevil
- Call the Skybreaker
- Chain Reaction
- Clone Legion
- Damnable Pact
- Deep Analysis
- Drawn from Dreams
- Dread Summons
- Feed the Swarm
- Flawless Forgery
- Hex
- Maestros Confluence
- Make an Example
- Ponder
- Preordain
- Reign of the Pit
- River's Rebuke
- Sever the Bloodline
- Talrand's Invocation
- Xander's Pact
- Zndrsplt's Judgment
- A Little Chat
- Dig Through Time
- Fact or Fiction
- Frantic Search
- Maestros Charm
- Mystic Confluence
- Waste Management
- Arcane Signet
- Audacious Swap
- Body Count
- Commander's Sphere
- Dimir Signet
- Fellwar Stone
- Izzet Signet
- Lightning Greaves
- Rakdos Signet
- Sol Ring
- Mimic Vat
- Smuggler's Buggy
- Twinning Staff
- Wayfarer's Bauble
- Cryptic Pursuit
- Determined Iteration
- Double Vision
- Extravagant Replication
- Rite of the Raging Storm
- Maestros Theater
- Ash Barrens
- Command Tower
- Crumbling Necropolis
- Grixis Panorama
- Myriad Landscape
- Path of Ancestry
- Thriving Bluff
- Thriving Isle
- Thriving Moor
- Cascade Bluffs
- Choked Estuary
- Darkwater Catacombs
- Exotic Orchard
- Foreboding Ruins
- Shadowblood Ridge
- Smoldering Marsh
- Sunken Hollow
- Temple of Epiphany
- 4× Island
- 3× Island
- 3× Swamp
- 3× Swamp
- 3× Mountain
- 2× Mountain