3 Stooges by Schmenace

Format: Commander

Commander: Tom, Bert, and William

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This Golgari deck leverages undercosted, high-power creatures to fuel explosive card draw and decisive life-drain finishes. Led by Tom, Bert, and William, the primary strategy pairs cheap beaters like Phyrexian Dreadnought, Hunted Horror, and Daemogoth Titan with the commander's sacrifice ability to draw seven to eighteen cards in a single activation for just one mana. The massive card influx quickly finds reanimation spells, fast mana, and win conditions. The primary finish uses Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord to sacrifice massive creatures like Yargle and Multani, draining all three opponents simultaneously for lethal damage on Turn 5. Secondary win conditions include Psychosis Crawler life drain, Selvala, Heart of the Wilds big-mana outbursts, and Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant board floods. The deck features robust recovery because the commander returns to the battlefield as an artifact upon dying, allowing continuous sacrifice activations even through creature board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armaggon, Future Shark
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Autumn's Veil
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blessed Respite
  • 1 Caldaia Guardian
  • 1 Campfire
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Daemogoth Titan
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Death's Presence
  • 1 Decimator of the Provinces
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Destructor Dragon
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 16 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Greenwarden of Murasa
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hunted Horror
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Dreadnought
  • 1 Phyrexian Soulgorger
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Poison-Tip Archer
  • 1 Protean Hulk
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
  • 1 Railway Brawler
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Surrak and Goreclaw
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tom, Bert, and William
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Withering Boon
  • 1 Yargle and Multani
  • 1 Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus