Chaos Incarnate Improved by user3359357

Format: Commander

Commander: The Lord of Pain

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 25

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos group slug and punisher strategy led by The Lord of Pain. The game plan revolves around turning the table's standard game actions into unavoidable life loss. The Lord of Pain shuts off opposing life gain completely while dealing direct damage whenever any player casts their first spell each turn. The deck accelerates into its commander on Turn 4 and follows up with heavy attrition pieces like Kaervek the Merciless, Bloodletter of Aclazotz, Magmatic Force, and Spiteful Visions. Defensive goad tools such as Kardur, Doomscourge and Geode Rager force opponents to attack each other, accelerating mutual life loss while preserving your life total. Board control tools like Blasphemous Act, Archfiend of Depravity, and Deadly Tempest keep creature swarms in check. The deck closes out games around Turn 8 through cumulative trigger damage and combat pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Akoum Refuge
  • 1 Ambition's Cost
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Armillary Sphere
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Bad Deal
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Bloodgift Demon
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Tempest
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Explosion of Riches
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fiery Confluence
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Geode Rager
  • 1 Hate Mirage
  • 1 Indulgent Tormentor
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magmatic Force
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Molten Slagheap
  • 14 Mountain
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nihil Spellbomb
  • 1 Profane Command
  • 1 Raise Dead
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakshasa Debaser
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Sangromancer
  • 1 Scythe Specter
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Stensia Bloodhall
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tectonic Giant
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Lord of Pain
  • 1 Theater of Horrors
  • 1 Titan Hunter
  • 1 Tuktuk Scrapper
  • 1 Unlicensed Disintegration
  • 1 Vampire Nighthawk
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wild Ricochet
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 Zombify