Steamed Hams by The_Arch_Villain

Format: Commander

Commander: Rocco, Street Chef

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive exile-matters and artifact token synergy engine commanded by Rocco, Street Chef. The primary game plan accelerates mana on Turns 1 and 2 to deploy Rocco on Turn 3. Rocco creates card flow by exiling cards for all players each end step, turning every card played from exile into +1/+1 counters and Food tokens. The deck translates these tokens and counters into overwhelming board presence and rapid life drain using payoffs like Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival, Academy Manufactor, Reckless Fireweaver, and Ingenious Artillerist. While giving opponents access to impulse cards carries risk, the deck breaks parity through massive token production and damage triggers. It lacks infinite combos, aiming instead for critical onset on Turn 6 and closing the table by Turn 8 through wide combat swings and non-combat burn. Defensively, it relies on spells like Boros Charm and Galadriel's Dismissal to shield its permanent-heavy board.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Academy Manufactor
• 1 Aerial Extortionist
• 1 Annie Joins Up
• 1 Banquet Guests
• 1 Battlefield Forge
• 1 Baylen, the Haymaker
• 1 Bennie Bracks, Zoologist
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Boros Charm
• 1 Bountiful Promenade
• 1 Brushland
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Chained to the Rocks
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Clifftop Retreat
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conclave Mentor
• 1 Copperline Gorge
• 1 Delighted Halfling
• 1 Doubling Season
• 1 Embrace the Unknown
• 1 Escape to the Wilds
• 1 Esper Sentinel
• 1 Etali, Primal Storm
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald
• 1 Farewell
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Feasting Hobbit
• 1 Fire Diamond
• 1 Fomori Vault
• 5 Forest
• 1 Galadriel's Dismissal
• 1 Generous Gift
• 1 Ghirapur Aether Grid
• 1 Gilded Goose
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Harmonize
• 1 Ingenious Artillerist
• 1 Inspiring Call
• 1 Inspiring Statuary
• 1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Jetmir's Garden
• 1 Jungle Shrine
• 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
• 1 Karplusan Forest
• 1 Kessig Wolf Run
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Late to Dinner
• 1 Light Up the Stage
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Marble Diamond
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Moss Diamond
• 1 Mossfire Valley
• 1 Mosswort Bridge
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Overgrown Farmland
• 1 Party Thrasher
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Peregrin Took
• 1 Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival
• 3 Plains
• 1 Quintorius Kand
• 1 Reckless Fireweaver
• 1 Reckless Impulse
• 1 Rocco, Street Chef
• 1 Rockfall Vale
• 1 Sacred Foundry
• 1 Samwise Gamgee
• 1 Savvy Trader
• 1 Selfless Spirit
• 1 Shalai and Hallar
• 1 Smothering Tithe
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul Partition
• 1 Spectator Seating
• 1 Spinerock Knoll
• 1 Spire Garden
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Sundown Pass
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Temple Garden
• 1 The Shire
• 1 Trail of Crumbs
• 1 Urabrask, Heretic Praetor
• 1 Wild-Magic Sorcerer
• 1 Wrenn's Resolve