It can start the game in your command zone and is safe from permanent removal should it be exiled or tucked away into your deck
The deck has a few key weaknesses
(10/2/2025) If the spell that's copied has an X whose value was determined as it was cast, the copy has the same value of X
Blue Otters, Frogs, Birds, and Rats are based in blue mana, and bring with them all manner of spellslinging and flying strategies
Table of Contents show The Deck Archmage Emeritus | Illustration by Caio Monteiro Commander (1) Creatures (9) Archmage Emeritus Dockside Extortionist Micromancer Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer Simian Spirit Guide Spellseeker Storm-Kiln Artist Thassa's Oracle Veyran, Voice of Duality Instants (32) An Offer You Can't Refuse Borne Upon a Wind Brain Freeze Cerulean Wisps Consider Crimson Wisps Cyclonic Rift Deflecting Swat Dramatic Reversal Fierce Guardianship Fleeting Reflection Flusterstorm Force of Negation Force of Will Intuition Lightning Bolt Mental Misstep Mindbreak Trap Muddle the Mixture Mystical Tutor Opt Pact of Negation Pongify Refocus Shore Up Snap Swan Song Tidal Bore Toils of Night and Day Twiddle Twitch Valakut Awakening / Valakut Stoneforge Sorceries (17) Claim the Firstborn Gamble Gitaxian Probe Hidden Strings Involuntary Employment Kari Zev's Expertise Merchant Scroll Personal Tutor Ponder Preordain Rite of Flame Sea Gate Restoration / Sea Gate, Reborn Shatterskull Smashing / Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass Solve the Equation Strike It Rich Traitorous Greed Twisted Fealty Enchantments (2) Mystic Remora Underworld Breach Artifacts (15) Arcane Signet Chrome Mox Fellwar Stone Izzet Signet Jeweled Lotus Lion's Eye Diamond Lotus Petal Mana Crypt Mana Vault Mox Amber Mox Diamond Mox Opal Sol Ring Talisman of Creativity The One Ring Lands (24) Ancient Tomb Arid Mesa Bloodstained Mire City of Brass Command Tower Emergence Zone Exotic Orchard Fiery Islet Flooded Strand Gemstone Caverns Island x2 Mana Confluence Minamo, School at Water's Edge Misty Rainforest Mountain Otawara, Soaring City Polluted Delta Scalding Tarn Shivan Reef Steam Vents Training Center Volcanic Island Wooded Foothills The Commander: Stella Lee, Wild Card Stella Lee, Wild Card, the face commander of the Quick Draw precon from Outlaws of Thunder Junction , is an interesting card
In Arcane Wizardry, not so much, since most of the non-legendary Wizards have enters-the-battlefield triggers that you will not get to take advantage of with Mirror of the Forebears
