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Molecule Man

Colorless

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Give each colorless cast a second job. Browse the optimized’s cards and rules.

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MEET YOUR COMMANDERMolecule Man

Molecule Man · Featured commander

STRATEGY · 3 PHASES

How this build plays

Optimized keeps the miracle setup but cuts several symmetrical draw tools and slow utility bodies for artifact selection, cost reduction and cast payoffs. Colorless spells now help build both a mana engine and a damage board.

01SET THE STAGE
Arrange the draw before the first card
Use Sensei’s Divining Top to arrange the next three cards, then draw with its tap ability when this is your first draw of the turn. With Molecule Man present, reveal a nonland card as drawn to use miracle. Scroll Rack can first place a threat from hand on top, but its hand exchange is not itself a draw.
- Molecule Man
- Sensei's Divining Top
- Scroll Rack
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.)
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.
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.
02BUILD THE ENGINE
Give each colorless cast a second job
Glaring Fleshraker creates a Spawn when you cast a colorless spell, then deals damage to every opponent when that colorless creature enters. Forsaken Monument adds mana when a permanent is tapped for colorless and gains life for colorless casts. Even a miracle spell cast for zero can feed these cast triggers.
- Molecule Man
- Glaring Fleshraker
- Forsaken Monument
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.)
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.
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.
03CARRY IT THROUGH
Trade artifacts for the next machine
Kuldotha Forgemaster sacrifices three artifacts to put an artifact from the library onto the battlefield. Portal to Phyrexia can reward that entry with opposing sacrifices and later reanimation. This puts the artifact into play rather than casting it, so it does not trigger Fleshraker’s cast ability.
- Kuldotha Forgemaster
- Portal to Phyrexia
- Glaring Fleshraker
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.
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.
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.)

Bonders' Enclave

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

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.

Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact 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.

Crystal Vein

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

Deserted Temple

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

Eldrazi Temple

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

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.

Geier Reach Sanitarium

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Treasure Vault

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

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.

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.

War Room

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

Wastes

{T}: Add {C}.

Aetherflux Reservoir

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn. Pay 50 life: This artifact deals 50 damage to any target.

All Is Dust

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

Basalt Monolith

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

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.

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.

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.)

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

Expedition Map

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lotus Petal

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.

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.

Manifold Key

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Bridge

{8}, {T}: Search your library for a permanent card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

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.

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.

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.

Sculpting Steel

You may have this artifact enter as a copy of any artifact on the battlefield.

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.

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.

Endless Atlas

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

Staff of Domination

{1}: Untap this artifact. {2}, {T}: You gain 1 life. {3}, {T}: Untap target creature. {4}, {T}: Tap target creature. {5}, {T}: Draw a card.

Conch Horn

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

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}.

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.)

Thran Dynamo

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

Brainstone

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

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.

Ugin, the Ineffable

Colorless spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. +1: Exile the top card of your library face down and look at it. Create a 2/2 colorless Spirit creature token. When that token leaves the battlefield, put the exiled card into your hand. −3: Destroy target permanent that's one or more colors.

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.

Void Winnower

Your opponents can't cast spells with even mana values. (Zero is even.) Your opponents can't block with creatures with even mana values.

Voltaic Key

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

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}."

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

Land

35 cards

Artifact

40 cards

Sorcery

2 cards

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

Creature

16 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

2 cards

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

1 Game Changer: 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× 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.

More artifact selection, cost reduction and colorless cast payoffs improve engine overlap. Basalt/Rings can produce mana with startup resources, but mana alone is not a game-ending two-card win; an outlet is required.

Assembly and timing: The six-mana commander and Forgemaster tap/sacrifice costs constrain immediate setup. Staff offers another outlet once the mana engine exists, without proving reliable early assembly.

Recovery and constraints: Artifact searches and multiple payoffs improve recovery options, while the board remains exposed to artifact removal and commander disruption.

Curve: 4.31 average nonland mana value. Cheap mana/land-search text: Liquimetal Torque · Lotus Petal · Mind Stone · Sol Ring · Thought Vessel · Warping Wail. This text-derived reading aid is not an official score.

Search-library evidence: Eye of Ugin · Inventors' Fair · Sanctum of Ugin · Urza's Cave · Urza's Saga · Demolition Field · Conduit of Ruin · Expedition Map · Kuldotha Forgemaster · Moonsilver Key · Planar Bridge · Ugin, Eye of the Storms. 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 · Lotus Petal. Conditional free interaction: None identified in the checked registry. Conditions and resource costs still apply.

Key cards: Kuldotha Forgemaster · Forsaken Monument · Glaring Fleshraker · Basalt Monolith · Rings of Brighthearth · Staff of Domination.

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.