roll initiative by user4705796

Format: Commander

Commander: Strefan, Maurer Progenitor

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This deck is a casual Rakdos build led by Strefan, Maurer Progenitor that blends Vampire tribal combat with Dungeons & Dragons flavor mechanics. The primary game plan focuses on dealing early incidental damage to opponents using cheap creatures and spells to generate Blood tokens. Once Strefan, Maurer Progenitor attacks, it sacrifices two Blood tokens to cheat high-cost Vampires like Necropolis Regent, Olivia's Attendants, and Bloodletter of Aclazotz directly onto the battlefield tapped, attacking, and temporarily indestructible. The deck backs up this aggressive creature strategy with D&D-themed cards that venture into dungeons, roll twenty-sided dice, and assemble the artifacts of Vecna. While the deck generates high burst combat power and resilient attacks on individual turns, it lacks heavy stack protection, enchantment removal, and fast combo finishes, relying instead on steady combat damage and life drain over multiple turn cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acererak the Archlich
  • 1 Anje, Maid of Dishonor
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bag of Holding
  • 1 Barbarian Class
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodline Necromancer
  • 1 Bloodtithe Harvester
  • 1 Burning Hands
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Chaos Channeler
  • 1 Check for Traps
  • 1 Clattering Skeletons
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Cordial Vampire
  • 1 Critical Hit
  • 1 Crossway Troublemakers
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Death-Priest of Myrkul
  • 1 Delina, Wild Mage
  • 1 Demogorgon's Clutches
  • 1 Den of the Bugbear
  • 1 Devour Intellect
  • 1 Dungeon Descent
  • 1 Dungeon Map
  • 1 Earth-Cult Elemental
  • 1 Ebondeath, Dracolich
  • 1 End the Festivities
  • 1 Eye of Vecna
  • 1 Farideh's Fireball
  • 1 Fates' Reversal
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Fifty Feet of Rope
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Glass-Cast Heart
  • 1 Hand of Vecna
  • 1 Herald of Hadar
  • 1 Hive of the Eye Tyrant
  • 1 Hoarding Ogre
  • 1 Improvised Weaponry
  • 1 Kalain, Reclusive Painter
  • 1 Lightfoot Rogue
  • 1 Magic Missile
  • 1 Malakir Bloodwitch
  • 1 Markov Enforcer
  • 1 Meteor Swarm
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Necropolis Regent
  • 1 Olivia's Attendants
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patron of the Vein
  • 1 Power Word Kill
  • 1 Precipitous Drop
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Sanctum Seeker
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiked Pit Trap
  • 1 Strefan, Maurer Progenitor
  • 1 Stromkirk Captain
  • 17 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Book of Vile Darkness
  • 1 The Deck of Many Things
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Treasure Chest
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Voldaren Epicure
  • 1 Voldaren Estate
  • 1 Westgate Regent
  • 1 Wish
  • 1 Zalto, Fire Giant Duke
  • 1 Zariel, Archduke of Avernus