New Untitled Deck by ReallyRed

Format: Commander

Commander: Bob, Reluctant HYDRA Agent

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This monoblack deck leverages Bob, Reluctant HYDRA Agent as a repeatable, low-cost engine piece that drains opponents whenever he attacks alone. By bouncing himself back to hand upon attacking, Bob triggers enter-the-battlefield, leaves-the-battlefield, and cast triggers every turn while evading sorcery-speed removal. The deck surrounds Bob with cost-reduction artifacts like Bontu's Monument and Jet Medallion, reducing his recast cost to a single black mana. Concurrently, static life-drain engines such as Ayara, First of Locthwain, Marauding Blight-Priest, and Defiling Daemogoth turn each combat step and life-gain trigger into symmetric damage across the table. In the mid-to-late game, the deck escalates its clock using heavy drain finishers like Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Wound Reflection, closing out games through unblockable life loss rather than traditional combat damage. A robust suite of monoblack removal keeps aggressive and combo opponents in check while the drain engine compounds.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Amonkhet Raceway
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Baron Helmut Zemo
  • 1 Baron Strucker, HYDRA Overlord
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blood Tithe
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bob, Reluctant HYDRA Agent
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Cabal Paladin
  • 1 Citizen V, Helmut Zemo
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Consuming Corruption
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Crimson Cowl, Master of Evil
  • 1 Crossbones, Malicious Mercenary
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Decode Transmissions
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Doom Reigns Supreme
  • 1 Dread Presence
  • 1 Endless Ranks of HYDRA
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grasping Shadows // Shadows' Lair
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Leech Collector // Bloodletting
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Loyal Subordinate
  • 1 MACH-1, Swooping Scoundrel
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Muraganda Raceway
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ninja Teen
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Silent Arbiter
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Super Shredder
  • 22 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Tainted Remedy
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Frightful Four
  • 1 Tinybones Joins Up
  • 1 Tombstone, Career Criminal
  • 1 Tome of Legends
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tragic Trajectory
  • 1 Twilight Prophet
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Villainous Hideout
  • 1 Villainous Wrath
  • 1 Visions of Villainy
  • 1 Voidforged Titan
  • 1 Vrock
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Withering Curse
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Wound Reflection