There's a new Commander deck making the rounds at local game stores, and it's doing numbers on Reddit for all the wrong reasons.
It's called "Multiverse Reforged," and depending on who you ask, it's either the most creative brew of 2024 or a war crime against your playgroup's patience.
You build around the cascade mechanic, jam in every "cast from exile" payoff you own, and let the chaos unfold.
Nobody at the table knows what's happening, including the person piloting it.
The decklist starts innocently with a five-color commander and about fifteen ramp pieces.
You're running cards that exile your own library, cards that give your opponents free spells, and at least three permanents that trigger on literally any game action.
The real genius—or crime—is the win condition.
You just sort of overwhelm the table with value until everyone scoops out of exhaustion.
Reddit's r/EDH has been split down the middle, with one camp calling it "peak jank" and the other camp calling it "why I stopped going to Friday Night Magic." Price-wise, the deck is a nightmare.
The mana base alone runs north of $300 if you want the good lands, and the "budget" version still clocks in around $120.
That's a lot of money to spend on a deck that mostly exists to make four people stare at their phones while you resolve seventeen triggers.
What's fascinating is how the deck keeps showing up in tournament reports despite winning almost nothing.
It's the Commander equivalent of a vibe—you don't play it to win, you play it because watching your opponent's soul leave their body when you exile your own graveyard for the fourth time is genuinely funny.
Then the ten minutes end, and you realize you have forty-seven cards in exile, no clear board state, and a LGS employee politely asking if you're going to finish your turn this century.
It's been posted to Moxfield, Archidekt, and at least six Discord servers with names like "Chaos Enjoyers" and "My Friends Hate Me." Most versions run the same core of about thirty cards, then fill the rest with whatever bulk rares the builder had lying around.
If you're thinking about building it, here's the real talk.
Your playgroup will let you play it exactly once.
After that, you're getting targeted from turn one for the rest of your natural life, and honestly, you'll deserve it.
You'll be shuffling a lot, and the salt damage to your cards is real. **The Verdict:** This deck is the Magic equivalent of ordering the spiciest thing on the menu just to prove something.
You'll feel cool for five minutes, then regret it in the parking lot.
Final Thoughts
Build it if your friends are boring and you want new ones.