Hot Potato by tyrant1000

Format: Commander

Commander: Blim, Comedic Genius

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a specialized bad-gifts strategy led by Blim, Comedic Genius. The core game plan involves casting high-risk permanents with strong enter-the-battlefield upsides—such as Demonic Lore, Greed's Gambit, and Demonic Pact—and donating them to opponents via Blim's combat damage trigger. Once gifted, these permanents force severe drawbacks, life loss, discard, and sudden-death lose-the-game conditions onto opponents. A dense package of 2-mana artifacts reliably accelerates Blim onto the board by Turn 3 or 4, while evasion pieces like Trailblazer's Boots and Whispersilk Cloak ensure combat connections. The deck safeguards its commander with efficient redirection spells like Bolt Bend and 1-mana resurrection auras like Not Dead After All. Backup donation spells like Harmless Offering and Fateful Handoff provide redundancy. Because Blim donates one permanent per combat connection, the deck systematically eliminates opponents one by one over several turn cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abyssal Persecutor
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of the Dross
  • 1 Bazaar Trader
  • 1 Bitter Reunion
  • 1 Blim, Comedic Genius
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demonic Lore
  • 1 Demonic Pact
  • 1 Despotic Scepter
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Earthquake
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fateful Handoff
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Footfall Crater
  • 1 Forbidden Crypt
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Geothermal Bog
  • 1 Greed's Gambit
  • 1 Harmless Offering
  • 1 Heartless Act
  • 1 Immortal Coil
  • 1 Infernal Sovereign
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Lich's Mastery
  • 1 Midnight Oil
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 11 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nefarious Lich
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Pestilence
  • 1 Prismatic Lens
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rhystic Tutor
  • 1 Ricochet Trap
  • 1 Rising of the Day
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rust Elemental
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Seize the Day
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Compleation
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Tramway Station
  • 1 Undying Evil
  • 1 Vow of Malice
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Xantcha, Sleeper Agent
  • 1 Zo-Zu the Punisher