bloodborne (duplicated from cozybat) by quaddi

Format: Commander

Commander: The Lord of Pain

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Rakdos Group Slug engine commanded by The Lord of Pain. The strategy accelerates on Turns 1 through 3 using efficient 2-CMC mana rocks to deploy The Lord of Pain on Turn 4. Once assembled, the commander shuts off opposing life gain and turns every player's first spell each turn into direct damage. On Turn 5, the deck establishes critical pressure by dropping damage multipliers such as Bloodletter of Aclazotz and Solphim, Mayhem Dominus, or punishing enchantments like Painful Quandary. Over two response cycles, cumulative damage from spellcasts, card draws, and upkeep triggers burns the entire table down simultaneously, culminating in a Turn 7 finish. The deck boasts strong creature interaction, reliable reanimation recovery, and high threat redundancy, though it remains vulnerable to mass enchantment removal and non-targeted sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braid of Fire
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chandra, Awakened Inferno
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Improvisation Capstone
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Keen Duelist
  • 1 Kefka, Dancing Mad
  • 1 Kolaghan's Command
  • 1 Light Up the Stage
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Maddening Hex
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mjölnir, Hammer of Thor
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Pain Magnification
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Sower of Discord
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Lord of Pain
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Valakut Exploration
  • 1 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Vampiric Link
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vial Smasher the Fierce
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wound Reflection