Scorpion God by S0uLxEat3r
Format: Commander
Commander: The Scorpion God
Bracket: 3
DeckCheck Threat Index: 33
Deck overview
This deck is a Rakdos control and midrange strategy engineered around -1/-1 counters, wither, and asymmetric creature suppression led by The Scorpion God. The primary game plan develops mana on the first three turns to deploy the commander on Turn 4 or 5. Once active, the engine places -1/-1 counters on opposing threats to trigger repeated card draw whenever those creatures die. On Turn 6, the deck lands pivotal lock pieces such as Kulrath Knight to freeze opposing attackers and blockers or Maha, Its Feathers Night to reduce enemy toughness to 1 for one-sided board wipes. Win conditions stem from combat beatdowns with large evasive creatures and Insect swarms generated by Nest of Scarabs, supplemented by All Will Be One burn, Massacre Wurm life loss, or an infinite death loop with Blowfly Infestation. The deck exhibits high creature resilience due to The Scorpion God returning to hand upon death.
Decklist (100 cards)
- 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
- 1 All Will Be One
- 1 Arcane Signet
- 1 Banewhip Punisher
- 1 Big Score
- 1 Black Market
- 1 Black Sun's Zenith
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blightbelly Rat
- 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Blood for the Blood God!
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 Blowfly Infestation
- 1 Bojuka Bog
- 1 Cabal Coffers
- 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
- 1 Chaos Warp
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Contagion Clasp
- 1 Contagion Engine
- 1 Corrosive Mentor
- 1 Crumbling Ashes
- 1 Dark Ritual
- 1 Deadly Rollick
- 1 Dragonskull Summit
- 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
- 1 Everlasting Torment
- 1 Fabled Passage
- 1 Feed the Swarm
- 1 Fists of the Demigod
- 1 Grasping Dunes
- 1 Grim Affliction
- 1 Harbinger of Night
- 1 Haunted Ridge
- 1 Heartless Summoning
- 1 Ifnir Deadlands
- 1 Incremental Blight
- 1 Infectious Inquiry
- 1 Jet Medallion
- 1 Karn's Bastion
- 1 Kulrath Knight
- 1 Lightning Greaves
- 1 Luxury Suite
- 1 Maha, Its Feathers Night
- 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
- 1 Massacre Girl, Known Killer
- 1 Massacre Wurm
- 1 Midnight Banshee
- 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
- 8 Mountain
- 1 Necroskitter
- 1 Nest of Scarabs
- 1 Persist
- 1 Persistent Constrictor
- 1 Phyresis
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Puncture Blast
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Reanimate
- 1 Reliquary Tower
- 1 Rogue's Passage
- 1 Scar
- 1 Sol Ring
- 1 Soul-Scar Mage
- 1 Spitting Dilophosaurus
- 1 Staff of Compleation
- 1 Stigma Lasher
- 1 Sudden Spoiling
- 8 Swamp
- 1 Sword of Truth and Justice
- 1 Sword of the Animist
- 1 Tainted Strike
- 1 Terminate
- 1 The Ozolith
- 1 The Scorpion God
- 1 Tibalt's Trickery
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Tyrite Sanctum
- 1 Untimely Malfunction
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Victimize
- 1 Village Pillagers
- 1 Whip of Erebos
- 1 Withering Torment
- 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician