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How to Build a Treasure Commander Deck In MTG

The real treasure was the friends you made along the way. No, wait, it's just treasure.

By Drew Knapp | @FenrirRex | Published 10/28/2023 | 6 min read

Treasures exploded onto the Magic scene in recent sets (much like the explosive mana they can produce) and they've had a truly impressive impact on the game. Giving decks access to quick and dirty mana that also synergize with artifact and sacrificial synergies, it turns out, is very good.

In recent sets,  we've already acquired a critical mass of shiny goodies that make or otherwise work well with treasure tokens, including a healthy stack of legendary creatures that can lead your deck in Commander. While already spoiling who I recommend you should run for your treasure deck, the best place to start is with the Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Rakdos preconstructed deck: Planar Portal.

The Most Treasured Commanders

Treasures are still a relatively recent phenomenon, but they've arguably had the biggest impact on the Commander format out of all the mechanics we've seen printed in the last few years. Similarly, we've seen plenty of legends that love to see treasures come and go. I've picked out the top five for your consideration below:

• Prosper, Tome-Bound
• Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
• Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter
• Galazeth Prismari
• Jolene, the Plunder Queen

Propser, Tome-Bound is the clear winner, producing treasures when casting anything from exile and then using the mana from treasures to cast more things from exile and getting some scary value. Korvold, Fae-Cursed King draws you a card whenever you sacrifice treasure, or you use the treasures to feed him— either way he fuels your gameplan easily.

Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter lets you alternate between sacrificing artifact creatures and treasures, getting the best ouf of sacrificial synergies and adding white for Smothering Tithe . Galazeth Prismari gets the nod into the list largely due to providing an even more unique form of ramp for spellslinger lists.

Finally, Jolene, the Plunder Queen lets you transform treasure into pure beats. She's simple, but effective. It's also worth noting that Ziatora, the Incinerator is very solid, but if you want to run treasures in Ziatora's colors you should probably just stick with Korvold. Similarly, I enjoy Breeches, Brazen Plunderer x Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator but the pirate creature type isn't quite strong enough to let it make the top five.

Glittering Rakdos Core

There are few things more satisfiying than cracking a pile of treasures to get all the mana you need, and stacking as many effects as possible when you do so just adds to that satisfaction. Mayhem Devil tops the list for the best effect to get when sacking those treasures, often taking out a number of creatures and potentially going for face damage. Pure chaotic fun.

The devil hitting creatures as well as players is huge, but Mirkwood Bats hits your opponents when your treasures enter and when they leave. With the rate of treasure production in many decks, this can get lethal with a quickness. As an added bonus, it's often not hard to send the flyer over for extra damage on top.

So, I heard you like treasure. What if you could make more treasure whenever you made treasure? If that sounds good, then Xorn is your man… er, Elemental. Any kind of doubling effect is worth looking at, and the fact that this is doubling a mana source means you should be paying even more attention.

Double treasures is good, but what if you wanted to turn your treasures into potential lifegain or even card advantage? Academy Manufactor takes treasures and makes them do a little bit of everything by adding Clue and Food tokens into the mix. All we're missing is something that makes Blood alongside treasure tokens and we'd have everything.

With all the value these core cards generate, we're already not exactly struggling to find a win. Still, if something is worth doing, it's surely worth overdoing! Revel in Riches gets you lots of treasure during a game, and a timely board wipe can almost immediately translate into a win while Revel is on the board. Gotta love having the words "win the game" attached to an effect you want to be running anyway!

Extortionists and Strongarms

Generating lots of treasures and then taking advantage of them is the game plan, so I've got an additional bundle of creatures that basically always make their way into treasure-centric lists. Dockside Extortionist is the king of treasures, while Professional Face-Breaker lets you get card advantage off your treasures, and Grim Hireling cashes them in for removal.

Sacrifice to Capitalism

Getting all the mana you need is one thing, but the best thing you can be doing with your treasure is gunning down the table with them. Disciple of the Vault pings down players, and Nadier's Nightblade does the thing while padding your life total on top. Marionette Master can potentially chunk the table for four (or more!) life with every treasure sacrificed, which (as you might imagine) can add up incredibly fast.

Weaponize Your Hoard

While the black sacrifice drain effects will often get you there, Reckless Fireweaver and Ingenious Artillerist work as solid Impact Tremors variants for your treasure tokens. Kalain, Reclusive Painter also lets you weaponize your treasures when they're used to cast creatures, sometimes resulting in some very juiced up beaters.

Build Your Fortune

Looping back around, we can do a lot of damage with our treasures but we want some more ways to generate them. Deadly Dispute is simple and effective, drawing you into more fuel while keeping the treasure flowing. Pitiless Plunderer lets you loot the dead, while Cavern-Hard Dragon punishes greedy opponents beautifully while rewarding you.

Plundered Conquest

You can ping your opponents down or win outright with Revel in Riches , but there are still more ways to win with treasures! Madda, Brazen Outlaw can dig up some amazing dragons, including Hellkite Tyrant who may just win you the game on the spot. Meanwhile, Lich-Knight's Conquest can transform a stacked treasury into a lethal board.

Mines, Vaults, and More

There are several lands that support artifacts or help you recur creatures, both of which are relevant to treasure-centric strategies, but there are a few more direct synergies. Mines of Moria and Treasure Vault both help add to your treasury, while Inventors' Fair sees your little stack of gold and lets you tutor for the best artifact in your list.

High Value Play

We have plenty of ways to cash in value with the deck, but that doesn't necessarily tell us how it plays— let's take a walk through the treasury. Your first few turns are spent ramping up or starting some engines. Sol Ring and Arcane Signet can lead the way towards later plays while you begin whittling down the table with an early Reckless Fireweaver or similar.

The midgame is likely where your commander drops in to start adding to your hoard, all while you can start really turning up the heat on the opposition with cards like Mirkwood Bats or Pitiless Plunderer . In a perfect scenario, you're able to get enough of these engines going, fueled by your treasures, to be threatening to bury the rest of the table in gold long before they can do anything about it.

However, the world is rarely perfect, so we must also consider the end game. You can still drain the table out with our biggest sacrificial treasure lover, Marionette Master , but also may be able to sneak in an "I Win" button off of Reven in Riches or Hellkite Tyrant . If not, you also have table-wide damage off of newcomer Flaming Tyrannosaurus and Exsanguinate . You're basically never out of the game with this deck as long as you're alive!

A Prosperous Deck

While we have plenty of options, the core of a treasure deck should absolutely be Rakdos, and Prosper, Tome-Bound is number one in my recommendations for a reason. If you want to combine some of the most powerful, exile-based card advantage engines with the impressive resources that a stacked treasury gives you, you'll find nothing better than this starting point:

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{1}, {T}: Add {B}{R}.

{T}: Add {C}. {B/R}, {T}: Add {B}{B}, {B}{R}, or {R}{R}.

Each nonland card in your hand without foretell has foretell. Its foretell cost is equal to its mana cost reduced by {2}. (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile it from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.) Whenever you foretell a card, Dream Devourer gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Mines of Moria enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {R}. {3}{R}, {T}, Exile three cards from your graveyard: Create two Treasure tokens.

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Bloodstained Mire: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

({T}: Add {B}.)

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may have target opponent lose 1 life.

When Dockside Extortionist enters the battlefield, create X Treasure tokens, where X is the number of artifacts and enchantments your opponents control. (Treasure tokens are artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

When Author of Shadows enters the battlefield, exile all opponents' graveyards. Choose a nonland card exiled this way. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

Whenever one or more artifacts enter the battlefield under your control, Ingenious Artillerist deals that much damage to each opponent.

First strike, haste Symphony of Pain — Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, Keeper of Secrets deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to target opponent.

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. Talisman of Indulgence deals 1 damage to you.

When Kalain, Reclusive Painter enters the battlefield, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.") Other creatures you control enter the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on them for each mana from a Treasure spent to cast them.

Exile target creature. Until the end of your next turn, you may cast that card and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell.

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. Sulfurous Springs deals 1 damage to you.

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped. When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

This spell costs {1} less to cast if an opponent controls no basic lands. Destroy target creature. // Hagra Broodpit enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B}.

If you would create a Clue, Food, or Treasure token, instead create one of each.

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) As Blood Crypt enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control." // Malakir Mire enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B}.

Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Menace Paradox — Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, Flaming Tyrannosaurus deals 3 damage to any target. Then put a +1/+1 counter on Flaming Tyrannosaurus. When Flaming Tyrannosaurus dies, it deals damage equal to its power to each opponent.

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.) Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the greatest number of artifacts an opponent controls. Flying, trample, haste Whenever Cavern-Hoard Dragon deals combat damage to a player, you create a Treasure token for each artifact that player controls.

As Outpost Siege enters the battlefield, choose Khans or Dragons. • Khans — At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. Until end of turn, you may play that card. • Dragons — Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, Outpost Siege deals 1 damage to any target.

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

As Foreboding Ruins enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, Foreboding Ruins enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Other Dwarves you control get +1/+0. Whenever a Dwarf you control becomes tapped, create a Treasure token. Sacrifice five Treasures: Search your library for an artifact or Dragon card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

{T}: Add {R}. Put a stash counter on Glittering Stockpile. {T}, Sacrifice Glittering Stockpile: Add X mana of any one color, where X is the number of stash counters on Glittering Stockpile.

When Rain of Riches enters the battlefield, create two Treasure tokens. The first spell you cast each turn that mana from a Treasure was spent to cast has cascade. (When you cast the spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever you cast a spell from exile, this creature deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to target opponent."

At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of each opponent's library. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among those exiled cards, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) Smoldering Marsh enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Lifelink When Murderous Rider dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library. // Destroy target creature or planeswalker. You lose 2 life. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Flying, trample Whenever Hellkite Tyrant deals combat damage to a player, gain control of all artifacts that player controls. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control twenty or more artifacts, you win the game.

({T}: Add {R}.)

Haste Whenever Laelia, the Blade Reforged attacks, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. Whenever one or more cards are put into exile from your library and/or your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on Laelia.

The first spell you cast from exile each turn has cascade. (When you cast your first spell from exile, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom of your library in a random order.)

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.") At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control ten or more Treasures, you win the game.

Bargain (You may sacrifice an artifact, enchantment, or token as you cast this spell.) Search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. If this spell was bargained, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost if that spell's mana value is 4 or less. Put the exiled card into your hand if it wasn't cast this way.

Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under your control, Reckless Fireweaver deals 1 damage to each opponent.

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Fabricate 3 (When this creature enters the battlefield, put three +1/+1 counters on it or create three 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature tokens.) Whenever an artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, target opponent loses life equal to Marionette Master's power.

Exile the top X cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

Whenever you cast a spell, add {R}. Until end of turn, you don't lose this mana as steps and phases end. Creatures you control can boast twice during each of your turns rather than once. // Discard a card: Exile the top two cards of your library. You may play those cards this turn.

{T}: Add {B}. // {T}: Add {R}.

{T}: Add {C}. {X}{X}, {T}, Sacrifice Treasure Vault: Create X Treasure tokens.

Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create two Treasure tokens. {B}, Sacrifice X Treasures: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Exile the top three cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, you may play cards this way without paying their mana costs. Flashback {7}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Flying, trample Whenever Decadent Dragon attacks, create a Treasure token. // Exile the top two cards of target opponent's library face down. You may look at and play those cards for as long as they remain exiled.

Whenever Etali, Primal Storm attacks, exile the top card of each player's library, then you may cast any number of spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs.

Whenever a player sacrifices a permanent, Mayhem Devil deals 1 damage to any target.

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sacrifice any number of artifacts, enchantments, and/or tokens. Return that many creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Spectacle {R} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.) Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Luxury Suite enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Cut deals 4 damage to target creature. // Aftermath (Cast this spell only from your graveyard. Then exile it.) Each opponent loses X life.

Flying Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) Canyon Slough enters the battlefield tapped. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom of your library in a random order.) Bituminous Blast deals 4 damage to target creature.

If you would create one or more Treasure tokens, instead create those tokens plus an additional Treasure token.

Deathtouch Mystic Arcanum — At the beginning of your end step, exile the top card of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card. Pact Boon — Whenever you play a card from exile, create a Treasure token.

When Share the Spoils enters the battlefield or an opponent loses the game, exile the top card of each player's library. During each player's turn, that player may play a land or cast a spell from among cards exiled with Share the Spoils, and they may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell. When they do, exile the top card of their library.

Menace Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token. Sacrifice a Treasure: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.

Dragonskull Summit enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Whenever an opponent attacks you and/or one or more planeswalkers you control, exile the top card of that player's library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

Haunted Ridge enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card. Draw two cards and create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

At the beginning of your precombat main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

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