Well, Conspiracy 2: Conspire Harder has a card that made me instantly brew a deck mentally that made me wish I could call this article “Mine.” Do you think you know that card I mean? I’m sure you do. I mean, you saw the picture as soon as you opened the article. Even as you read this, the card is clearly visible in your periphery. Should I even . . .  it’s Leovold. The card’s Leovold. You ruined it. You looked ahead and the big reveal is ruined. I’m not mad, just disappointed.

First of all, this guy is in great colors for stealing their stuff. If they try to disenchant your Treachery or bounce their creature to get it back, you get to draw cards. He’s very well suited for stealing their creatures. Also, they can’t draw extra cards so if you play Howling Mine effects, you draw extra and they don’t. Get it? DO YOU GET IT?! Mine, mine. Mine plus mine. How perfect would it have been to call this article “Mine”? Literally perfect. Literally. I’m really disappointed in myself. I got mad at you earlier for peeking at Leovold earlier, but I think we can all tell it’s myself I’m really disappointed in for wasting a title that applied so much better to this one because we got a literal Howling Mine hoser.

What kind of card advantage? How do we plan to win? Like many 75% decks, I like the idea of killing them with their own creatures and spells so there will be a heavy focus on those sort of shenanigans. For example, it isn’t often that we get to brew a 75% deck with Villainous Wealth and I’m going to take full advantage. A few Planeswalkers to keep up ahead will be a welcome addition considering our Planesalkers are safer than most, given our commander discouraging them from targeting our permanents by threatening to draw us cards. A bunch of mine effects that only we’ll benefit from including the brutal combination of Leovold and Teferi's Puzzle Box round the deck out nicely.

What would a deck like this look like?

Mine ? Commander | Jason Alt

• Commander (1)
• 1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest

• Creatures (18)
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Coiling Oracle
• 1 Deathrite Shaman
• 1 Dragonlord Silumgar
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Jace's Archivist
• 1 Kami of the Crescent Moon
• 1 Keiga, the Tide Star
• 1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
• 1 Nissa, Vastwood Seer
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Scavenging Ooze
• 1 Seizan, Perverter of Truth
• 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1 Spellskite
• 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
• 1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
• 1 Willbender

• Planeswalkers (10)
• 1 Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
• 1 Garruk, Apex Predator
• 1 Jace, Architect of Thought
• 1 Karn Liberated
• 1 Liliana Vess
• 1 Ob Nixilis Reignited
• 1 Sorin Markov
• 1 Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
• 1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
• 1 Vraska the Unseen

• Spells (32)
• 1 Abrupt Decay
• 1 Desertion
• 1 Hero's Downfall
• 1 Krosan Grip
• 1 Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1 Misdirection
• 1 Putrefy
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Damnation
• 1 Dark Deal
• 1 Explosive Vegetation
• 1 Seasons Past
• 1 Villainous Wealth
• 1 Whispering Madness
• 1 Windfall
• 1 Control Magic
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Dictate of Kruphix
• 1 Phyrexian Arena
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Treachery
• 1 Anvil of Bogardan
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Font of Mythos
• 1 Gilded Lotus
• 1 Golgari Signet
• 1 Howling Mine
• 1 Simic Signet
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Teferi's Puzzle Box
• 1 Temple Bell

• Lands (40)
• 5 Swamp
• 7 Forest
• 7 Island
• 1 Alchemist's Refuge
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Creeping Tar Pit
• 1 Dimir Aqueduct
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Golgari Rot Farm
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Maze of Ith
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Simic Growth Chamber
• 1 Temple of Deceit
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 Temple of Mystery
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Winding Canyons
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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You have a decent suite of theft spells. I tried to find some more room but I am running more land here than I normally run. I could see cutting one basic for Thada Adel, Acquisitor or something like that. Since Wrexial stole the name “Mine” that would have been perfect for this deck, maybe we jam Wrexial in this deck. Find room where you care to. Treachery, Control Magic, Dragonlord Silumgar and other effects like that should help deal with their board in the best way possible — beating them to death with their own dudes. Stripping their hand so they can’t replace the creatures you steal is just a smart way to do business.

The deck is pretty self-explanatory and I think it’s a good shell for you to customize. The important points are that I didn’t run tutors, because I basically never do; and, also, you’re drawing so many cards and they’re drawing so few you should just get what you need naturally. I am confident you will be able to execute your plan better than they are. Steal their creatures, don’t tutor too much, don’t prevent them from doing anything (besides drawing extra cards) and beat them in the face until they stop twitching. Leovold is one of the most exciting commanders I have seen in a while and we’ve had some very good ones recently.

What do we think? Any glaring omissions or questionable inclusions? Leave me some love in the comments section! I know you people are reading this series, so don’t forget to comment! As always, thanks for reading and we’ll be back next week.