SultaiLegendary Artifact Creature — MutantThe Master, Transcendent
Mana value4Rank#5,000
The Commander
When The Master enters, target player gets two rad counters.
: Put target creature card in a graveyard that was milled this turn onto the battlefield under your control. It's a green Mutant with base power and toughness 3/3. (It loses its other colors and creature types.)
Guide
Gameplan
Pile up rad counters and self-mill to fill graveyards, then use The Master's activated ability to steal or reanimate the fattest creature milled that turn as a 3/3 Mutant under your control. You grind incremental advantage off rad mill triggers while building a board of stolen and recurred bodies, eventually overwhelming the table with creatures or assembling a graveyard combo.
Strengths
- Repeatable, on-command reanimation that hits any player's milled creatures, including opponents'
- Rad counters double as a free mill engine for everyone—fueling both your yard and your targets
- Excellent value in the long game, snowballing bodies every turn
- Sultai colors give access to the best mill, recursion, and tutoring in the format
- Cheap four-mana body that immediately threatens to take over a board
Weaknesses
- Reanimated creatures become vanilla 3/3 Mutants, losing keywords and abilities unless they have static benefits
- Ability is summoning-sick the turn The Master enters and only works on creatures milled THAT turn
- Heavily reliant on the commander—gets taxed and slowed by removal
- Graveyard hate (Rest in Peace, Bojuka Bog) shuts down the engine
- Self-mill can deck you out or feed opponents' graveyard strategies
Key Cards
- Altar of Dementia — Sacrifice your reanimated 3/3s to mill huge piles, refilling targets for The Master to grab again.
- Sidisi, Brood Tyrant — Self-mills on every creature cast and makes blockers while filling the yard for reanimation.
- Mesmeric Orb — Mills everyone each untap, guaranteeing fresh creature cards in graveyards every turn for the tap ability.
- Eternal Witness — Recurs your mill enablers and combo pieces, and is easily reanimated off a milled yard.
- Splinter Twin — Pairs with a tapper-friendly shell, but more relevantly The Master loves any way to untap and reactivate its reanimation.
- Thousand-Year Elixir — Lets The Master reanimate the turn it enters and gives a second activation per turn.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana (Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, Fellwar Stone) and untap enablers like Thousand-Year Elixir and Magewright's Stone to activate the ability earlier and more often. Tighten the graveyard package with reliable self-mill (Stitcher's Supplier, Hedron Crab, Stinkweed Imp) and protect the commander with Lightning Greaves and Heroic Intervention. For a higher ceiling, lean into a mill wincon with Bruvac the Grandiloquent or build a sacrifice loop with Pitiless Plunderer, Altar of Dementia, and a Blood Artist effect.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Overwhelm the table with a wide board of reanimated and stolen Mutant creatures
- ▸Mill opponents out using rad counters plus Altar of Dementia or Bruvac the Grandiloquent
- ▸Assemble a sacrifice/reanimation loop with payoffs like Blood Artist or Zulaport Cutthroat
- ▸Reanimate enough big bodies to swing for lethal commander damage and beats
Archetypes
- Reanimator — The activated ability is a repeatable, mana-free reanimation spell on a stick targeting any graveyard.
- Mill — Rad counters and self-mill payoffs both fuel the engine and can pivot into a mill kill.
- Aristocrats — Reanimated 3/3 Mutants make perfect sacrifice fodder for value and combo loops.
- Graveyard Value — Sultai recursion lets you grind out the long game by recycling threats and enablers endlessly.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BGU), by popularity.
