Lizard Wizard by Pearfect

Format: Commander

Commander: Gev, Scaled Scorch

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Rakdos aggro and group-slug strategy helmed by Gev, Scaled Scorch. Gev capitalizes on early pingers like Spear Spewer and Creeping Bloodsucker by turning incidental opponent life loss into immediate board growth, causing entering creatures to receive additional +1/+1 counters. The deck translates this physical board state into overwhelming burn through enter-the-battlefield damage triggers such as Impact Tremors, Agate Instigator, and Molten Gatekeeper. In the midgame, power multipliers like Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might, Uncivil Unrest, and Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin turn chip pings into lethal life swings across the entire table simultaneously. While the deck does not feature infinite combos, its dense redundancy of burn and resilient combatants enables it to bypass traditional pillowfort or blocking states, closing the game around Turn 6 or 7 through unblockable noncombat burn and aggressive swings.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Agate Instigator
  • 1 Ajani's Anguish
  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Auntie Blyte, Bad Influence
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass
  • 1 Bloodtracker
  • 1 Boltwave
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Cauldron of Souls
  • 1 Caustic Bronco
  • 1 Collective Inferno
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Defiler of Instinct
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fireglass Mentor
  • 1 Gev, Scaled Scorch
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Great Unclean One
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Ingris Stingerquill
  • 1 Iridescent Vinelasher
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Loyal Apprentice
  • 1 Mardu Shadowspear
  • 1 Mishra, Claimed by Gix
  • 1 Molten Gatekeeper
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Mudflat Village
  • 1 Nikara, Lair Scavenger
  • 1 Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
  • 1 Party Thrasher
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Dragon Engine
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Joins Up
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rottenmouth Viper
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Samut, Hazoret's Champion
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shivan Gorge
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawn of Mayhem
  • 1 Spear Spewer
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Thundering Raiju
  • 1 Twilight Prophet
  • 1 Uncivil Unrest
  • 1 Valley Rotcaller
  • 1 Vat of Rebirth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vincent, Vengeful Atoner
  • 1 Whip of Erebos