Avengers Assemble by user5187680

Format: Commander

Commander: Captain America, Team Leader

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a quintessential Rakdos Group Slug engine commanded by The Lord of Pain. Its core objective is to dismantle standard Commander gameplay by transforming every fundamental action—tapping lands for mana, casting spells, drawing cards, and activating abilities—into painful life loss. Powered by reliable low-curve ramp artifacts and an extensive suite of interchangeable punisher cards like Manabarbs, Spiteful Visions, Painful Quandary, and Razorkin Needlehead, the deck rapidly shrinks life totals across the board while completely locking out opposing life gain. Kardur, Doomscourge redirects opposing combat steps toward other players, while sweepers like Blasphemous Act and Meathook Massacre II clear out wide creature boards and generate massive death-trigger spikes via Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat. While the deck features minimal stack protection and requires its permanents to survive across multiple turns, its decentralized threat density ensures that removing the commander does not stop the bleeding.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandoned Air Temple
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Agent Phil Coulson
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Amazing Acrobatics
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Avenge
  • 1 Avengers Assemble!
  • 1 Avengers Quinjet
  • 1 Avengers Tower
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Black Widow, Agile Avenger
  • 1 Cancel
  • 1 Captain America, Living Legend
  • 1 Captain America, Super-Soldier
  • 1 Captain America, Team Leader
  • 1 Captain America, Wings of Freedom
  • 1 Captain Marvel, Apex Avenger
  • 1 Cathars' Crusade
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concerted Effort
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Director Nick Fury
  • 1 Echo, Perceptive Prodigy
  • 1 Exclude
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Final Showdown
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Folk Hero
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 HULK SMASH!
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hercules, Olympian Hero
  • 1 Heroic Return
  • 1 Heroic Sacrifice
  • 1 Honored Heirloom
  • 1 Iron Man, Armored Avenger
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Jarvis, Earth's Mightiest Butler
  • 1 Kid Loki
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring
  • 1 Make Your Move
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Methods of the Mighty
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Patriot, Shield Wielder
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Quicksilver, Brash Blur
  • 1 Quicksilver, Speedster
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Rip Apart
  • 1 Scarlet Witch, Chaotic Avenger
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 She-Hulk, Wallbreaker
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Speed, Young Avenger
  • 1 Spider-Sense
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Take Up the Shield
  • 1 The Sentry, Golden Guardian
  • 1 The Wasp, Winsome Avenger
  • 1 The Wondrous Wasp
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 War Machine, Avenging Arsenal
  • 1 We Say Thee Nay!
  • 1 West Coast Expansion
  • 1 Winter Soldier, Reborn Avenger
  • 1 Wraith, Vicious Vigilante