Olivia by th0r

Format: Commander

Commander: Olivia, Mobilized for War

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Rakdos Aggro Reanimator strategy piloted by Olivia, Mobilized for War. The primary game plan focuses on discarding devastating high-cost creatures into the graveyard during the opening turns using looting spells, landcyclers, or Olivia's enter-the-battlefield trigger. Between turns 3 and 4, the deck deploys efficient reanimation spells such as Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Necromancy to put titanic threats directly onto the battlefield. Olivia provides a discard outlet and grants immediate haste and a +1/+1 counter, allowing cards like Archon of Cruelty, Ancient Brass Dragon, and Balefire Dragon to attack right away. This rapid onset strips opposing resources through combat and triggered edicts while generating substantial card advantage. Supported by mass reanimation like Living Death and redundant graveyard recursion, the deck maintains high resilience against single-target removal, applying overwhelming airborne pressure to close out the table across turns 6 to 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Duneyard
  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Archpriest of Shadows
  • 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Balefire Dragon
  • 1 Big Game Hunter
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Burning-Rune Demon
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dark Withering
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Doomed Necromancer
  • 1 Dragon Mage
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
  • 1 Drana, the Last Bloodchief
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Keen Duelist
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
  • 1 Oliphaunt
  • 1 Olivia, Crimson Bride
  • 1 Olivia, Mobilized for War
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Patron of Chaos
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Savanti Romero, Time's Exile
  • 1 Shadowgrange Archfiend
  • 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune
  • 1 Will of the Abzan