Firkraag, Goadin' Dragons by Archeon

Format: Commander

Commander: Firkraag, Cunning Instigator

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Firkraag is a goad-and-draw engine: he attacks with haste, goads a creature whenever a Dragon attacks, and grows while drawing cards when forced attackers connect. The primary plan is to force opponents' boards to attack each other, then close with a Dragon swarm and Scourge of the Throne's extra combat. Secondary paths are commander damage from Firkraag's counters, Hellkite Tyrant's artifact-theft win, and Niv-Mizzet/Public Enemy card advantage. There is no double-faced or hidden commander; Popular Entertainer acts as a background-style support card that adds another goad trigger to commander creatures. The deck wants to resolve dragons, not infinite combos.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Angel's Trumpet
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Astral Dragon
  • 1 Besmirch
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blast-Furnace Hellkite
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Blade
  • 1 Bothersome Quasit
  • 1 Carnelian Orb of Dragonkind
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Chaos Dragon
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Compulsive Research
  • 1 Counterflux
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Curse of Verbosity
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Draconic Lore
  • 1 Dragon's Fire
  • 1 Dragon's Hoard
  • 1 Dragonlord's Servant
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fell Beast's Shriek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Ferrous Lake
  • 1 Firkraag, Cunning Instigator
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Fumiko the Lowblood
  • 1 Ganax, Astral Hunter
  • 1 Haven of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Illusionist's Gambit
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Iymrith, Desert Doom
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Life of the Party
  • 1 Maelstrom of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Manaform Hellkite
  • 1 Maximum Carnage
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Mocking Doppelganger
  • 13 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Popular Entertainer
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Impetus
  • 1 Public Enemy
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reins of Power
  • 1 Ring of the Lucii
  • 1 Rite of the Raging Storm
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Scourge of Valkas
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Shiny Impetus
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectacular Showdown
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Territorial Hellkite
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Utvara Hellkite
  • 1 Vengeful Ancestor
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Winged Words
  • 1 Wrathful Red Dragon