Combining cheap commander casts via delve with an activated ability that serves as an infinite mana win condition from the command zone makes for a masterclass in control strategy. On Moxfield’s competitive and high-power charts, few Sultai () legends possess as much historical pedigree and raw versatility as Tasigur, the Golden Fang.
As a 4/5 legend with Delve costing six mana (), Tasigur routinely enters the battlefield for a single black mana (). His activated ability () mills two cards and forces an opponent to choose a nonland card from your graveyard to return to your hand. When paired with infinite mana engines like Isochron Scepter and Dramatic Reversal, Tasigur’s ability allows you to put your entire library into your graveyard and recur every nonland card to your hand, enabling instant deterministic wins through infinite spell casting.
Here is the strategic operational blueprint of Moxfield’s premier Tasigur list, detailing how to turn grave manipulation and infinite mana loops into absolute table domination.
1. Core Mechanics & Strategic Phases
Succeeding with Tasigur requires a high-density interaction suite, fast graveyard setup, efficient mana acceleration, and instant-speed infinite mana combos.
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Early Game (Turns 1–2): Fill your graveyard using cheap cantrips like Gitaxian Probe or fetch lands, enabling a Turn 2 or Turn 3 Tasigur via Delve for just .
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Mid Game (Turns 3–4): Hold up Sultai counter-spells and spot removal while utilizing Tasigur’s activated ability at the end of opponents‘ turns to draw political answers out of your graveyard.
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Late Game (Turns 5+): Assemble infinite mana loops using Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal or Basalt Monolith synergies, activate Tasigur infinitely to put all cards in your hand, and end the game with looped spells like Reality Shift or Torment of Hailfire.
2. Moxfield Highlights: The Golden Fang’s Mandate
The highest-rated community lists on Moxfield optimize Tasigur by pairing his infinite activated ability with fast mana rocks, graveyard tutors, and stack interaction.
Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal
The core infinite mana engine. Imprinting Dramatic Reversal onto Isochron Scepter while controlling non-land mana sources producing two or more mana generates infinite colored mana. With Tasigur on the field, infinite mana translates directly into putting every nonland card in your deck into your hand.
Eldritch Evolution / Neoform
High-value pod tutors. Because Tasigur has a printed mana value of 6 (despite costing only to cast via Delve), casting Eldritch Evolution or Neoform sacrificing Tasigur allows you to tutor massive 7-mana or 8-mana creatures directly onto the field, such as Toxrill, the Corrosive or Hullbreaker Horror.
Thassa’s Oracle / Demonic Consultation
The premier cEDH secondary win line. Sultai colors allow seamless integration of the fastest alternate win condition in Commander, providing a compact backup plan if artifact mana is restricted.
Fierce Guardianship / Stubborn Denial
Ultra-cheap stack defense. Because Tasigur is a 4/5 creature, Stubborn Denial acts as a 1-mana Negate with ferocious active, protecting your combo turns for minimal mana investment.
3. Copy & Paste Tasigur, the Golden Fang 100-Card Decklist
Use the text box below to copy the complete highly-optimized community list. It contains exactly 1 Commander and 99 mainboard cards, calibrated perfectly for an error-free import into Moxfield.
1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Animate Dead
1 Arcane Signet
1 Assassin's Trophy
1 Bayou
1 Beseech the Mirror
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Boseiju, Who Endures
1 Brainstorm
1 Cabal Ritual
1 Chrome Mox
1 City of Brass
1 Command Tower
1 Commandeer
1 Counterspell
1 Culling the Weak
1 Cyclonic Rift
1 Dark Ritual
1 Dauthi Voidwalker
1 Delay
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Diabolic Intent
1 Dramatic Reversal
1 Eldritch Evolution
1 Entomb
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Fabled Passage
1 Fellwar Stone
1 Fierce Guardianship
1 Finale of Devastation
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Negation
1 Force of Vigor
1 Force of Will
1 Fyndhorn Elves
1 Gemstone Caverns
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Imperial Seal
1 Isochron Scepter
1 Jeweled Lotus
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Lion's Eye Diamond
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Confluence
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Drain
1 Mana Vault
1 Marsh Flats
1 Mental Misstep
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Mox Amber
1 Mox Diamond
1 Mox Opal
1 Muddle the Mixture
1 Mystic Remora
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Neoform
1 Opposition Agent
1 Orcish Bowmasters
1 Otawara, Soaring City
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Peer into the Abyss
1 Phantasmal Image
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Polluted Delta
1 Ponder
1 Preordain
1 Reanimate
1 Reality Shift
1 Rhystic Study
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sol Ring
1 Stubborn Denial
1 Swan Song
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Tainted Pact
1 Thassa's Oracle
1 Torment of Hailfire
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Tropical Island
1 Underground Sea
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Veil of Summer
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Watery Grave
1 Worldly Tutor
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills
5 Swamp
4 Island
3 Forest
Summary: Infinite Outlets from the Throne
Moxfield’s top deck builders prioritize Tasigur, the Golden Fang because he functions as a dirt-cheap 4/5 body, a political value engine, and an infinite mana win condition directly from the command zone. By pairing Delve acceleration with Sultai stack control and Isochron Scepter loops, you maintain absolute dominance over any pod. Copy the flawless 100-card decklist above, claim the throne, and dominate your next Commander pod.
