The Mask Commander Deck · 100 Proxy Cards · MTG EDH · Ssssmokin'

A fully custom The Mask Magic proxy Commander deck, ready to play straight out of the envelope: 100 proxy cards with original artworks, built around a bank clerk, a piece of driftwood and one very long night. This is a blue-red (Izzet) deck led by Stanley Ipkiss, The Mask.

Why Izzet? Blue is Stanley — the apology, the deferral, the man who lets the mechanic overcharge him and thanks him for it — and it is also the transformation itself, a Norse artefact that rewrites what a creature is. Red is what comes out of him: a nightclub, a conga line, a mallet from nowhere, a man flattened and standing straight back up. There is no black in the deck and there should not be, because nothing in this story is cruel.

Targeted power level: Bracket 4 — fast mana, a tutor package pointed at one Equipment, and a commander who moves that Equipment onto anything on the battlefield every time he connects.

Deck Strategy

The Mask is the original mechanic and it is a legendary Equipment with one line no other Equipment has: it can be attached to creatures you don't control. The equipped creature gets +3/+3, becomes a Cartoon in addition to its other types, has haste and indestructible, and attacks each combat if able — and whenever it deals combat damage to a player, you draw a card. It does not change who controls the creature. So the Mask is a gift: you hand an opponent's best blocker a body that cannot be killed and cannot be held back, aim it at the player to their left, and draw off it the whole time. At the beginning of your end step you may attach it to another target creature on the battlefield, so the decision is re-made every single turn. Stanley moves it too: whenever he deals combat damage to a player, attach The Mask to any creature on the table, and for {1}{U}{R} he returns it from your graveyard and puts it back on his own face.

Cartoon physics is the second mechanic, on twenty spells: when you cast this spell, it also happens again at the beginning of the next end step — copy it then, and you may choose new targets. It is not a copy on the stack, it is a delayed rerun. The anvil lands, everybody relaxes, and then the anvil lands again against a board that has already moved. Half the skill of the deck is casting something mediocre now because you know what the table will look like at end of turn. The Night of the Mask hands the mechanic to every instant and sorcery you cast and gives your Cartoons +1/+1.

• Cartoons — the Mask rewrites creature types, and the deck counts them: The Coco Bongo drains each opponent for 2 at your end step while you control three or more, Dorian Tyrell drains for each Cartoon on the battlefield when he attacks, The Masks We Wear gives your Cartoons hexproof, and Smokin' Finale deals damage equal to the number of Cartoons on the battlefield to each opponent.
• The cast has no powers — Milo the dog (who wears it too, for {0}), Tina Carlyle, Lieutenant Kellaway, Peggy Brandt, Doctor Neuman, Niko who owns the club, Dorian Tyrell who puts it on and is not improved by it, and Loki, who carved the thing and left it in the river on purpose.
• Interaction is Izzet and it all reruns — The Tommy Gun From Nowhere (3 damage divided as you choose), The Anvil, Twice (4 damage to a creature), Swallowed a Bomb (2 damage to each creature without haste), The Tornado Exit and Into the River for bounce, Pardon Me, Do You Have a Warrant? as the counterspell, Cartoon Sledgehammer for artifacts — and every one of the cartoon physics cards fires a second time at end of turn.
• Equipment support — Ripley's Mechanic Shop makes Equipment spells cost {1} less and gives everything equip {1}, Wooden Nickel taps for mana and sacrifices to tutor the legendary Equipment straight to hand, and Loki, Who Carved It draws you a card every time The Mask becomes attached to anything.
• Two combos. The Mask + Somebody Stop Me!: put the Mask on the biggest creature an opponent controls, then untap it with Somebody Stop Me!, which gives it +2/+0, haste and must be blocked this turn if able. It is indestructible and forced to attack, so their bomb kills their neighbour's board, survives it, and draws you a card — and cartoon physics runs the whole thing again at end of turn. Cuban Pete + cartoon physics: Cuban Pete taps all creatures your opponents control and stops them untapping during their next untap step, then reruns at the beginning of the next end step — so the table is tapped down through your turn and through the untap of the player after you as well.

Thirty-five lands, and they are the city rather than a mana base: the Coco Bongo dance floor, Ipkiss's apartment, the Edge City bank lobby, the harbour bridge, the park bench, Ripley's garage, the police precinct, the landfill, Doctor Neuman's office, the rooftop chase, backstage at the club, the vault door, the pawn shop, the alleyway exit and the stage at midnight. Four tokens — Cartoon, Balloon Poodle, Treasure and Anvil — come in the box. Average mana value 2.82, built to play at instant speed and close before sunrise.