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Molecule Man

Colorless

Reality, on the house.

The sacrifices can refill your hand. “Best” is this version’s name, not a tested ranking.

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MEET YOUR COMMANDERMolecule Man

Molecule Man · Featured commander

STRATEGY · 3 PHASES

How this build plays

The supplied Best list leans further into artifact recovery, adding Scrap Trawler, Myr Retriever and Coveted Jewel. It retains top-deck miracle setup and colorless cast payoffs, but recovers spent artifacts instead of keeping every large spell from Optimized.

01SET THE STAGE
Prepare the first draw, not just the hand
Scroll Rack can put an expensive card from hand on top of your library. Temple Bell can then draw it as your first card of the turn, enabling Molecule Man’s miracle if you reveal it at the right time. Extra cards from a later draw that turn do not also qualify.
- Molecule Man
- Scroll Rack
- Temple Bell
Rules text for these cards
Molecule Man
Nonland cards in your hand have miracle {0}. (You may cast a card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)
Scroll Rack
{1}, {T}: Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Put that many cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then look at the exiled cards and put them on top of your library in any order.
Temple Bell
{T}: Each player draws a card.
02BUILD THE ENGINE
The sacrifices can refill your hand
Kuldotha Forgemaster can sacrifice Myr Retriever and other artifacts while searching for a new artifact. The Retriever returns another artifact from the graveyard to hand, and Scrap Trawler can recover artifacts of lesser mana value as your artifacts die. Their targeting and mana-value restrictions still apply; this is not a free, unlimited recursion loop.
- Kuldotha Forgemaster
- Myr Retriever
- Scrap Trawler
Rules text for these cards
Kuldotha Forgemaster
{T}, Sacrifice three artifacts: Search your library for an artifact card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Myr Retriever
When this creature dies, return another target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
Scrap Trawler
Whenever this creature dies or another artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return to your hand target artifact card in your graveyard with lesser mana value.
03CARRY IT THROUGH
A Jewel funds the next big turn
Coveted Jewel draws three on entry and taps for three mana of one color. Unwinding Clock untaps it on opposing turns, while Glaring Fleshraker rewards future colorless casts with Spawn and entry damage. The Jewel’s unblocked-attack trigger can hand it and three cards to an opponent, so the mana comes with a defensive cost.
- Coveted Jewel
- Unwinding Clock
- Glaring Fleshraker
Rules text for these cards
Coveted Jewel
When this artifact enters, draw three cards. {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Whenever one or more creatures an opponent controls attack you and aren't blocked, that player draws three cards and gains control of this artifact. Untap it.
Unwinding Clock
Untap all artifacts you control during each other player's untap step.
Glaring Fleshraker
Whenever you cast a colorless spell, create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}." Whenever another colorless creature you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

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Molecule Man

Nonland cards in your hand have miracle {0}. (You may cast a card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

All Is Dust

Each player sacrifices all permanents they control that are one or more colors.

Arch of Orazca

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) {T}: Add {C}. {5}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you have the city's blessing.

Basalt Monolith

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}. {3}: Untap this artifact.

Blast Zone

This land enters with a charge counter on it. {T}: Add {C}. {X}{X}, {T}: Put X charge counters on this land. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this land.

Bonders' Enclave

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.

Brainstone

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.

Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Cityscape Leveler

Trample When you cast this spell and whenever this creature attacks, destroy up to one target nonland permanent. Its controller creates a tapped Powerstone token. Unearth {8}

Clock of Omens

Tap two untapped artifacts you control: Untap target artifact.

Cloud Key

As this artifact enters, choose artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, or sorcery. Spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast.

Codex Shredder

{T}: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.) {5}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Conch Horn

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards, then put a card from your hand on top of your library.

Conduit of Ruin

When you cast this spell, you may search your library for a colorless creature card with mana value 7 or greater, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top. The first creature spell you cast each turn costs {2} less to cast.

Conjurer's Bauble

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Put up to one target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Draw a card.

Coveted Jewel

When this artifact enters, draw three cards. {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Whenever one or more creatures an opponent controls attack you and aren't blocked, that player draws three cards and gains control of this artifact. Untap it.

Crystal Ball

{1}, {T}: Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Crystal Vein

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Add {C}{C}.

Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Deserted Temple

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Untap target land.

Duplicant

Imprint — When this creature enters, you may exile target nontoken creature. As long as a card exiled with this creature is a creature card, this creature has the power, toughness, and creature types of the last creature card exiled with it. It's still a Shapeshifter.

Echoes of Eternity

If a triggered ability of a colorless spell you control or another colorless permanent you control triggers, that ability triggers an additional time. Whenever you cast a colorless spell, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)

Eldrazi Temple

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast colorless Eldrazi spells or activate abilities of colorless Eldrazi.

Emrakul, the Promised End

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each card type among cards in your graveyard. When you cast this spell, you gain control of target opponent during that player's next turn. After that turn, that player takes an extra turn. Flying, trample, protection from instants

Endbringer

Untap this creature during each other player's untap step. {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target. {C}, {T}: Target creature can't attack or block this turn. {C}{C}, {T}: Draw a card.

Endless Atlas

{2}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.

Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Eye of Ugin

Colorless Eldrazi spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. {7}, {T}: Search your library for a colorless creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Forsaken Monument

Colorless creatures you control get +2/+2. Whenever you tap a permanent for {C}, add an additional {C}. Whenever you cast a colorless spell, you gain 2 life.

Foundry Inspector

Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Geier Reach Sanitarium

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Each player draws a card, then discards a card.

Glacial Chasm

Cumulative upkeep—Pay 2 life. (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) When this land enters, sacrifice a land. Creatures you control can't attack. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you.

Glaring Fleshraker

Whenever you cast a colorless spell, create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}." Whenever another colorless creature you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Inventors' Fair

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.

Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

When you cast this spell, draw four cards. Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.) When Kozilek is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.

Kozilek, the Broken Reality

When you cast this spell, up to two target players each manifest two cards from their hands. For each card manifested this way, you draw a card. (To manifest a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Other colorless creatures you control get +3/+2.

Kozilek, the Great Distortion

When you cast this spell, if you have fewer than seven cards in hand, draw cards equal to the difference. Menace Discard a card with mana value X: Counter target spell with mana value X.

Kuldotha Forgemaster

{T}, Sacrifice three artifacts: Search your library for an artifact card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Library of Leng

You have no maximum hand size. If an effect causes you to discard a card, discard it, but you may put it on top of your library instead of into your graveyard.

Lightning Greaves

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

Liquimetal Torque

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Target nonland permanent becomes an artifact in addition to its other types until end of turn.

Manifold Key

{1}, {T}: Untap another target artifact. {3}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Memory Jar

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Each player exiles all cards from their hand face down and draws seven cards. At the beginning of the next end step, each player discards their hand and returns to their hand each card they exiled this way.

Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Each player draws a card.

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Mind's Eye

Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

Mishra's Bauble

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Look at the top card of target player's library. Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Mithril Coat

Flash Indestructible When Mithril Coat enters, attach it to target legendary creature you control. Equipped creature has indestructible. Equip {3}

Moonsilver Key

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for an artifact card with a mana ability or a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Myr Retriever

When this creature dies, return another target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Mystic Forge

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast artifact spells and colorless spells from the top of your library. {T}, Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library.

Not of This World

Counter target spell or ability that targets a permanent you control. This spell costs {7} less to cast if it targets a spell or ability that targets a creature you control with power 7 or greater.

Null Elemental Blast

Choose one — • Counter target multicolored spell. • Destroy target multicolored permanent.

Planar Nexus

This land is every nonbasic land type. (Nonbasic land types include Cave, Desert, Gate, Lair, Locus, Mine, Power-Plant, Sphere, Tower, and Urza's.) {T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Portal to Phyrexia

When this artifact enters, each opponent sacrifices three creatures of their choice. At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It's a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Rings of Brighthearth

Whenever you activate an ability, if it isn't a mana ability, you may pay {2}. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Rise of the Eldrazi

This spell can't be countered. Destroy target permanent. Target player draws four cards. Take an extra turn after this one. Exile Rise of the Eldrazi.

Sanctum of Ugin

{T}: Add {C}. Whenever you cast a colorless spell with mana value 7 or greater, you may sacrifice this land. If you do, search your library for a colorless creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Scrap Trawler

Whenever this creature dies or another artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return to your hand target artifact card in your graveyard with lesser mana value.

Scroll Rack

{1}, {T}: Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Put that many cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then look at the exiled cards and put them on top of your library in any order.

Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.

Shrine of the Forsaken Gods

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast colorless spells. Activate only if you control seven or more lands.

Skyclave Relic

Kicker {3} Indestructible When this artifact enters, if it was kicked, create two tapped tokens that are copies of this artifact. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Sol Ring

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

Soul-Guide Lantern

When this artifact enters, exile target card from a graveyard. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile each opponent's graveyard. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Temple Bell

{T}: Each player draws a card.

The Mycosynth Gardens

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {X}, {T}: This land becomes a copy of target nontoken artifact you control with mana value X.

The One Ring

Indestructible When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring. {T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

The Walls of Ba Sing Se

Defender Other permanents you control have indestructible.

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Thran Dynamo

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

Trading Post

{1}, {T}, Discard a card: You gain 4 life. {1}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 0/1 white Goat creature token. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.

Treasure Vault

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

Ugin, Eye of the Storms

When you cast this spell, exile up to one target permanent that's one or more colors. Whenever you cast a colorless spell, exile up to one target permanent that's one or more colors. +2: You gain 3 life and draw a card. 0: Add {C}{C}{C}. −11: Search your library for any number of colorless nonland cards, exile them, then shuffle. Until end of turn, you may cast those cards without paying their mana costs.

Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger

When you cast this spell, exile two target permanents. Indestructible Whenever Ulamog attacks, defending player exiles the top twenty cards of their library.

Ulamog, the Defiler

When you cast this spell, target opponent exiles the top half of their library, rounded up. Ward—Sacrifice two permanents. Ulamog enters with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the greatest mana value among cards in exile. Ulamog has annihilator X, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on it.

Unwinding Clock

Untap all artifacts you control during each other player's untap step.

Urza's Bauble

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Look at a card at random in target player's hand. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Urza's Cave

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Urza's Mine

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Power-Plant and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Urza's Power Plant

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Mine and an Urza's Tower, add {C}{C} instead.

Urza's Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — This Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}." II — This Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'" III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Urza's Tower

{T}: Add {C}. If you control an Urza's Mine and an Urza's Power-Plant, add {C}{C}{C} instead.

Victory Chimes

Untap this artifact during each other player's untap step. {T}: A player of your choice adds {C}.

Voltaic Key

{1}, {T}: Untap target artifact.

War Room

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Warping Wail

({C} represents colorless mana.) Choose one — • Exile target creature with power or toughness 1 or less. • Counter target sorcery spell. • Create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Wastes

{T}: Add {C}.

Zhulodok, Void Gorger

Colorless spells you cast from your hand with mana value 7 or greater have "Cascade, cascade." (When you cast one, 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. Then do it again.)

Commander

1 card

1×Molecule ManLegendary Creature — Human Villain · Printing not specified

Sorcery

2 cards

1×All Is DustKindred Sorcery — Eldrazi · Printing not specified 1×Rise of the EldraziSorcery · Printing not specified

Land

36 cards

Artifact

39 cards

Creature

17 cards

Enchantment

1 card

1×Echoes of EternityKindred Enchantment — Eldrazi · Printing not specified

Instant

3 cards

1×Not of This WorldKindred Instant — Eldrazi · Printing not specified 1×Null Elemental BlastInstant · Printing not specified 1×Warping WailInstant · Printing not specified

Planeswalker

1 card

1×Ugin, Eye of the StormsLegendary Planeswalker — Ugin · Printing not specified

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Commander Bracket Assessment

Rules-Based Bracket: 3 minimumEstimated Power Bracket: High 3–Low 4

Based on the 100-card main deck; sideboard excluded. The Rules-Based Bracket is the lowest bracket this card list allows under Commander bracket rules. The Estimated Power Bracket is a personal estimate of how strongly the deck plays. It is not an official rating.

Evidence and limitations

Rules-Based Bracket · minimum

2 Game Changers: excluded from ordinary Brackets 1 and 2.
Your extra-turn cards exclude ordinary Exhibition play; their presence alone does not prove a chain.

Exact Game Changers: 1× Glacial Chasm · 1× The One Ring.

Mass land denial registry: None identified in the checked registry. Modal or repeated-land targeting still requires a pregame discussion.

Your extra-turn cards: Rise of the Eldrazi. Opponent turns from Emrakul or gifts are not counted as your own chain.

Confirmed early two-card lethal or turn-chain flags are not inferred from keywords. This is a lower bound, not a complete combo solver or permission to delay a consistently early line until turn seven. Agreed Rule Zero / Exhibition exceptions are outside this ordinary-restriction check.

Estimated Power Bracket · High 3–Low 4

Estimated from the card list alone, not from tracked win rates or game results.

The supplied Best list adds artifact recovery and Jewel resources while cutting some Optimized payoffs. The recursion is mana-value constrained, not automatically an infinite lethal loop.

Assembly and timing: Forgemaster must be able to tap and spend three artifacts; recovery pieces add setup. No earliest or frequent early two-card game-ending sequence is verified.

Recovery and constraints: Trawler and Retriever help reclaim spent artifacts. Glacial Chasm buys safety at a growing upkeep cost and prevents your attacks, so it also slows combat pressure.

Curve: 4.22 average nonland mana value. Cheap mana/land-search text: Liquimetal Torque · Mind Stone · Sol Ring · Thought Vessel · Warping Wail. This text-derived reading aid is not an official score.

Search-library evidence: Conduit of Ruin · Demolition Field · Expedition Map · Eye of Ugin · Inventors' Fair · Kuldotha Forgemaster · Moonsilver Key · Sanctum of Ugin · Ugin, Eye of the Storms · Urza's Cave · Urza's Saga. This includes restricted and land searches; efficient tutor overlap is reviewed separately above. There is no official tutor-count cap.

Fast mana indicators: Sol Ring. Conditional free interaction: None identified in the checked registry. Conditions and resource costs still apply.

Key cards: Scrap Trawler · Myr Retriever · Coveted Jewel · Kuldotha Forgemaster · Glacial Chasm.

Official sources checked 2026-10-31; criteria update 2025-10-21, Game Changers update 2026-02-09. Method and official source links. Brackets 4 and 5 share structural freedom; competitive intent cannot be inferred from these counts.