Kardur Goad Budget by user7053822

Format: Commander

Commander: Kardur, Doomscourge

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Forced-Combat and Aristocrats strategy led by Kardur, Doomscourge. Rather than attacking directly in the early game, the deck accelerates mana with low-cost Treasure producers and sacrifice fodder before deploying Kardur on Turn 4. Kardur's enter-the-battlefield ability imposes a mandatory combat clause on all opposing creatures, forcing opponents to attack one another while protecting your life total. By pairing Kardur with inexpensive death-return instants such as Not Dead After All and Undying Malice, the deck repeatedly re-triggers this goad effect across consecutive turns. Meanwhile, aristocrat engines like Mayhem Devil, Morbid Opportunist, and Mahadi, Emporium Master capitalize on the resulting creature deaths by generating card advantage, mana, and direct damage. Once opposing boards and life totals are heavily depleted, the deck finishes the game on Turn 7 through decisive mass-theft spells like Mob Rule, burn from Chandra's Ignition, or straightforward combat cleanup against the final surviving player.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Tempest
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Disciple of Perdition
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dusk Legion Zealot
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Garna, Bloodfist of Keld
  • 1 Garna, the Bloodflame
  • 1 Greedy Freebooter
  • 1 High-Society Hunter
  • 1 Immersturm Predator
  • 1 Impulsive Pilferer
  • 1 Jaxis, the Troublemaker
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Kalain, Reclusive Painter
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Maximum Carnage
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mob Rule
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 14 Mountain
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Novice Occultist
  • 1 Patron of the Arts
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Prowling Geistcatcher
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rite of the Raging Storm
  • 1 Seize the Spotlight
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sinkhole Surveyor
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soldevi Adnate
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Sticky Fingers
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 17 Swamp
  • 1 Swashbuckler Extraordinaire
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Tarrian's Journal // The Tomb of Aclazotz
  • 1 Thrilling Encore
  • 1 Twinferno
  • 1 Undying Evil
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Vampire Gourmand
  • 1 Vat of Rebirth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wake the Dead
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zealous Conscripts
  • 1 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival
  • 1 Zodiark, Umbral God
  • 1 Éomer, Marshal of Rohan