Queza — The Agony Engine

Commander1

• Queza, Augur of Agonies3/4

Land35

• 1Adarkar Wastes
• 1Ancient Tomb
• 1Caves of Koilos
• 1City of Brass
• 1Command Tower
• 1Deserted Beach
• 1Exotic Orchard
• 1Flooded Strand
• 1Godless Shrine
• 1Hallowed Fountain
• 3Island
• 1Mana Confluence
• 1Marsh Flats
• 1Misty Rainforest
• 1Morphic Pool
• 1Otawara, Soaring City
• 2Plains
• 1Polluted Delta
• 1Raffine's Tower
• 1Scalding Tarn
• 1Sea of Clouds
• 1Shattered Sanctum
• 1Shipwreck Marsh
• 3Swamp
• 1Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1Underground River
• 1Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1Vault of Champions
• 1Verdant Catacombs
• 1Watery Grave

Instant22

• 1Anguished Unmaking1WB
• 1Blue Sun's ZenithXUUU
• 1BrainstormU
• 1Cyclonic Rift1U
• 1Demonic ConsultationB
• 1Dovin's VetoWU
• 1Enlightened TutorW
• 1EntombB
• 1Fierce Guardianship2U
• 1FlusterstormU
• 1Force of Will3UU
• 1Frantic Search2U
• 1Mana DrainUU
• 1March of Swirling MistXU
• 1Mystical TutorU
• 1Pact of Negation0
• 1SilenceW
• 1Swan SongU
• 1Swords to PlowsharesW
• 1Teferi's Protection2W
• 1Tolarian Winds1U
• 1Vampiric TutorB

Artifact16

• 1Aetherflux Reservoir4
• 1Alhammarret's Archive5
• 1Arcane Signet2
• 1Bolas's Citadel3BBB
• 1Chrome Mox0
• 1Dimir Signet2
• 1Fellwar Stone2
• 1Mana Vault1
• 1Sensei's Divining Top1
• 1Sol Ring1
• 1Swiftfoot Boots2
• 1Talisman of Dominance2
• 1Talisman of Hierarchy2
• 1Talisman of Progress2
• 1The One Ring4
• 1Wishclaw Talisman1B

Creature12

• 1Consecrated Sphinx4UU
• 1Drogskol Reaver5WU
• 1Esper SentinelW
• 1Faerie Mastermind1U
• 1Grand AbolisherWW
• 1Laboratory Maniac2U
• 1Ledger Shredder1U
• 1Notion Thief2UB
• 1Orcish Bowmasters1B
• 1Psychosis Crawler5
• 1Sheoldred, the Apocalypse2BB
• 1Thassa's OracleUU

Enchantment7

• 1Animate Dead1B
• 1Black Market Connections2B
• 1Lich's Mastery3BBB
• 1Mystic RemoraU
• 1Rhystic Study2U
• 1Smothering Tithe3W
• 1Teferi's Ageless Insight2UU

Sorcery7

• 1Demonic Tutor1B
• 1Echo of Eons4UU
• 1PonderU
• 1PreordainU
• 1ReanimateB
• 1Toxic Deluge2B
• 1Windfall2U

Notes

Game plan: Develop your mana early, establish a draw engine, and keep interaction available while assembling a protected finish. Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, Esper Sentinel, and The One Ring provide sustained cards, while your tutors find whichever engine, protection spell, or combo piece the situation requires. Drawing becomes draining: Queza triggers separately for every card you draw, making Brainstorm, Windfall, and Tolarian Winds potential bursts of life loss. Teferi’s Ageless Insight and Alhammarret’s Archive multiply most draws, with Archive also doubling your life gain. Psychosis Crawler spreads the pressure across every opponent, while Sheoldred rewards your draws and punishes theirs. Wheels and disruption: Windfall and Echo of Eons become particularly punishing alongside Sheoldred or Orcish Bowmasters. Notion Thief instead replaces opponents’ eligible draws with your own, producing more Queza triggers while denying them fresh hands. Those replaced draws do not trigger Sheoldred’s opponent-draw ability or Bowmasters, so choose the interaction that best fits your board. Queza’s draw loops: With Queza and either Drogskol Reaver or Lich’s Mastery in play, drawing a card starts a repeating sequence of drawing, draining, and gaining life. These triggers are mandatory: Reaver can make you deck yourself before eliminating everyone, so have Laboratory Maniac already in play or another way to interrupt the sequence. Lich’s Mastery prevents you from losing to an empty library while it remains, but does not itself win the game—and its departure causes you to lose. Queza combo reference, Lich’s Mastery. Alternative finishes: Resolve Thassa’s Oracle, then respond to its triggered ability with Demonic Consultation, naming a card absent from your deck to exile your library. Bolas’s Citadel, Sensei’s Divining Top, and Aetherflux Reservoir provide another route: tap Top to draw and place it on your library, recast it through Citadel, and repeat while cards remain to build spell count and life for Reservoir activations. Thassa’s Oracle, Demonic Consultation. Protecting the turn: Silence and Grand Abolisher create openings to commit, backed by free counters and efficient interaction. Entomb, Reanimate, Animate Dead, and your tutors help recover disrupted creature engines or pivot to a different finish.

Sample hand

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