Dynamite and gasoline by derekw08

Format: Commander

Commander: Child of Alara

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This deck is a 5-color control and lands-combo list built around Child of Alara and a Maze's End Gate victory. Rather than treating Child of Alara as a one-shot deterrent, the deck turns its death trigger into a repeatable, asymmetric board engine by pairing it with sacrifice lands like High Market and 1-mana recursion spells like Feign Death and Undying Malice. Because the wipe destroys only nonland permanents, opponents lose mana rocks, commanders, and board development while this deck's land base remains untouched. The mana advantage accelerates into mass land sorceries like Scapeshift and Reshape the Earth, which assemble 10 unique Gates alongside Gond Gate and Maze's End for an inevitable win. Alternate routes leverage Basilisk Gate for commander damage and burn from Vicious Shadows and Massacre Wurm.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Athreos, God of Passage
  • 1 Baldur's Gate
  • 1 Basilisk Gate
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Brought Back
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Child of Alara
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Citadel Gate
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Cliffgate
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpse Dance
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deathreap Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Gifts
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 Dingus Staff
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Galadriel's Dismissal
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Gond Gate
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Gruul Guildgate
  • 1 Harvester of Souls
  • 1 Heap Gate
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Ingris Stingerquill
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Izzet Guildgate
  • 1 Life's Legacy
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Manor Gate
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Maze's End
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Miren, the Moaning Well
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Momentous Fall
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Plaza of Harmony
  • 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
  • 1 Rakdos Guildgate
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reshape the Earth
  • 1 Scapeshift
  • 1 Sea Gate
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Vicious Shadows
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Zagoth Triome
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat