Kuja, Genome Sorcerer is one of the many legendary creatures found in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering's Final Fantasy set. Acting as the main antagonist of Final Fantasy 9, Kuja wreaks havoc and pulls the strings on many of the game's events. Kuja can also create Black Mages from mist, something se꧅en in his effect to create black Wizard tokens.

If you want to build a deck around Black Mages (0/1 Wizard tokens that do burn damage when you cast a noncreature🅺 spell), then Kuja, Genome Sorcerer is the perfect commander for the archetype. Kuja is a great mixture of control and burn, so if those are appealing to you, look no further than Kuja for your commander.

Decklist

The decklist contains 16 creatures, ten sorceries, 23 instants, 11 artifacts, five enchantments, and 34 lands. The creature count is light since Kuja generates tokens on its own, with noncreature spells bein𒀰g very important, hence the high amount of them.

Key Cards

Kuja, Genome Sorcerer // Trance Kuja, Fate Defied

Kuja, Genome Sorcerer is an easy way to constantly produce black Wizard tokens, which this deck wants as many as possible on the battlefield. As such, you want Kuja on the battlefield as quickly as possible to start getting the most out of his effect. K༺uja is r🦄elatively cheap, so this is easily done.

When Kuja flips to Trance Kuja, all your Wizards deal more damage. This doesn't just apply to your black Wizard tokens, but any Wizard you control, and applies to both noncombat and combat damage, making them great attackers as well.

Trance Kuja is a Wizard itself, so if you deal damage with it, you'll deal eight damage insteadꦜ of just four.

Harmonic Prodigy

Harmonic Prodigy is the best creature in the deck, as it'll make all your Shaman and Wizard creatures double up on their effects. If you have onlyဣ five black Wizard tokens, it makes them deal a total of ten damage with just one noncreature spell.

Notably, Kuja is a Wizard itself, which means Harmonic Prodigy makes it easier to flip Kuja to Trance Kuja and provide 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:even more token generation. Nearly every creature in the deck is a Shaman or Wizard, allowing Harmonic Pr🧔odigy to support about every creature you have.

Whip Of Erebos

With your black Mage tokens, it's the creatures themselves that are dealing damage to your opponents. So, if you give them lifelink, not only will they burn, but you'll also gain life from that buꦺrn damage.

This is why Whip of Erebos is so important. You have rather low defenses, so Whip of Erebos is a great way to gain back all the life you're likely to lose in the early stages of the game. In a pinch, it can be used for a one-turn reanimation of an important 💃creature you might need to close out a game.

Storm-Kiln Artist

If you're playing a deck that plays a ton of spells, Storm-Kiln Artist is going to be one of the best cards you can play. It creates a token for every instant or sorcery spell cast or copied, allowing you to get a ton of "free" spells if they only cost one mana, since they 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:leave behind a Treasure token.

In addition to being a generically good card, Storm-Kiln Artist is also involved with an infinite combo with Haze of Rage​. This not only gives you infinite Trea൲sure tokens, but if you control even one black Wizard token, you can deal infinite burn damage. Here's how the combo works.

How To Play The Deck

A Kuja, Genome Sorcerer Commander deck is built around flooding the battlefield with black Wizard tokens and casting as many noncreature spells as possible to deal as much burn damage as you can (and as quickly as possible​​​​​​). There is a ton o🧸f burn damage from permanents, along with cards like Lightning Bolt🦩, Boltwave, and Play With Fire to do more direct damage.

Permanents that cause extra damage to be taken are extremely important for closing g💦ames out quickly. City on Fire, Gratuitous Violence, and Fiery Emancipation are all great ways to do so, along with Trance Kuja.

The deck does not have many creatures naturally, so you'll have low defenses. You can counteract this with Young Pyromancer 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:to make more tokens, with Queen Brahne and Kuja, Genome Sorcerer able to make tokens as well, albeit much slower. However, your life total doesn't matter, 🐻as you only care about b💃urning your opponents' life totals down in big bursts.

You want to use your removal spells to keep your opponents off their big threats. Since you need to be careful about your life total, you want to focus on creatures with high attack as oppos👍ed to ones with low power, as those will of🉐ten take a while until they become a problem (if they even do at all).

Win Condition And Weaknesses

The primary win condition of Kuja is through burn damage. With how many black Wizard tokens you'll be making, this is easily accomplished. Many noncreature spells only cost one mana, allowing you to cast multiple in a turn for huge amounts of damage by chaining noncr𒉰eature spells together once you have a battlefield of mages.

The biggest weakness of the deck is its low defenses. There aren't a ton of creatures, and the permanents that create tokens create ones with weak stats that only act as chump blockers. As such, you'll never be winning with combat damage, so your only real path to victory is with burn damage.