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Parnesse, the Subtle Brush
Legendary Creature — Vampire Wizard
Whenever you or a permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless that player pays 4 life. Whenever you copy a spell, up to one target opponent may also copy that spell. They may choose new targets for that copy.
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“Spell-copying control wizard that taxes opponent interaction and forces them to share your spells.”
Control
Intermediate
Commander damage, Control
Spellslinger, Control
Strategy
Parnesse is a sneaky control piece that punishes opponents for targeting you while rewarding spell copying shenanigans. Your main gameplan is to stay alive by making it expensive for opponents to interact with you or your permanents—forcing them to pay 4 life to counter your stuff creates a slow drain that adds up fast. Simultaneously, you're assembling a spell-copying engine with cards like Thousand-Year Storm, Twinning Staff, or Sparked Speculation. When you copy spells, Parnesse forces opponents to also copy them, letting you either generate value off the extra copy or lock them into unwanted effects they can't control.
The deck wins by a mix of commander damage, chip damage from forcing life payments, and the sheer value of copying your best spells twice over. You'll want a mixture of interaction (blue's counterspells, red's damage effects) and card draw to keep your engine running. Since Parnesse is a vampire wizard, you can lean into payoffs that care about either type, though the core synergy is really about spell copying and punishing targeted interaction. Play this as a midrange control deck that slowly builds advantage until opponents can't answer your threats.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Use cheaper spell-copy effects like Doublecast and Narset's Reversal instead of pricey cards like Thousand-Year Storm; budget counterspells like Counterspell alternatives work fine for the control shell.
Most-Played Cards
Double Vision
Tempt with Mayhem
Storm-Kiln Artist
Archmage Emeritus
Twinning Staff
Narset's Reversal
Wandering Archaic
Return the Favor
Cormela, Glamour Thief
Arcane Bombardment
Thousand-Year Storm
Reverberate
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