Grub'o-crats

Format: Commander

Commander: Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Goblin tribal engine helmed by Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie. It blends fast creature swarm aggression with lethal aristocrat drain and compact creature combo lines. Early turns focus on establishing mana acceleration through pieces like Sol Ring, Skirk Prospector, and Warren Soultrader before casting Grub or tribal tutors. Once assembled, the deck uses Grub, Notorious Auntie to clone high-value enter-the-battlefield Goblins on attack, while generating massive token hordes with Krenko, Mob Boss and Muxus, Goblin Grandee. The deck pressures life totals using Impact Tremors, General Kreat, the Boltbringer, and Pashalik Mons. It reliably sets up a decisive win around turn 5 through Goblin Recruiter lines utilizing Conspicuous Snoop, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, and Sling-Gang Lieutenant. Heavy graveyard recursion from Grub, Reanimate, and Wort, Boggart Auntie ensures rapid rebuilding after board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Auntie's Hovel
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Cursecrafter
  • 1 Boggart Harbinger
  • 1 Boggart Mischief
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolg's Company
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brightstone Ritual
  • 1 Brotherhood Regalia
  • 1 Champion of the Weird
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conspicuous Snoop
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Den of the Bugbear
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Eclipsed Boggart
  • 1 Eclipsed Realms
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Frogtosser Banneret
  • 1 Gathering Stone
  • 1 General Kreat, the Boltbringer
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Goblin Chieftain
  • 1 Goblin Chirurgeon
  • 1 Goblin King
  • 1 Goblin Lackey
  • 1 Goblin Matron
  • 1 Goblin Recruiter
  • 1 Goblin Trashmaster
  • 1 Goblin Warchief
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Grub's Command
  • 1 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hobgoblin Bandit Lord
  • 1 Howlsquad Heavy
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 Lightning Crafter
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Mad Auntie
  • 1 Mogg War Marshal
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Munitions Expert
  • 1 Muxus, Goblin Grandee
  • 1 Pashalik Mons
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rundvelt Hordemaster
  • 1 Secret Tunnel
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sling-Gang Lieutenant
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Taster of Wares
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wort, Boggart Auntie