Endless Punishment by user4142659

Format: Commander

Commander: The Lord of Pain

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This Rakdos deck is a dedicated Group Slug and Burn strategy commanded by The Lord of Pain. The primary game plan accelerates into the commander by Turn 4 using efficient mana rocks, immediately shutting down opposing life gain while turning every player's first spell each turn into targeted burn. The deck surrounds its commander with a dense array of punishing permanents such as Harsh Mentor, Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls, Mogis, God of Slaughter, Spiteful Visions, and Kaervek the Merciless, which penalize opponents for taking fundamental game actions like drawing cards, tapping lands, and activating abilities. Damage amplifiers like Torture Pit accelerate table-wide life loss into a rapid Turn 7 finish. Robust board control spells like Blasphemous Act, Massacre Girl, and Bedevil keep opposing creature boards manageable, while Kardur, Doomscourge redirects hostile combat. Although the list lacks nonland tutors and countermagic, its high functional redundancy ensures consistent pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Barbflare Gremlin
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Pact
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Falkenrath Noble
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Fear of Burning Alive
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Firespitter Whelp
  • 1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Geothermal Bog
  • 1 Gleeful Arsonist
  • 1 Grab the Prize
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Harsh Mentor
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Light Up the Stage
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mask of Griselbrand
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Persistent Constrictor
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
  • 1 Sadistic Shell Game
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shivan Gorge
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spiked Corridor // Torture Pit
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Star Athlete
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Séance Board
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tectonic Giant
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Lord of Pain
  • 1 Theater of Horrors
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Vial Smasher the Fierce
  • 1 Witch's Clinic