Lizard by Nefaroxis

Format: Commander

Commander: Gev, Scaled Scorch

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos group slug and aggressive burn strategy led by Gev, Scaled Scorch. The primary game plan focuses on deploying low-mana Lizard creatures and continuous ping engines on early turns, triggering Gev's ability to enter future creatures with +1/+1 counters while chipping away at opponents' life totals. In the midgame, the deck lands potent damage multipliers such as Torbran, Thane of Red Fell, Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might, and Mechanized Warfare, transforming minor ping triggers into lethal bursts of damage. Passive punishers like Roiling Vortex, Sulfuric Vortex, Magebane Lizard, and Underworld Dreams heavily tax opponents' game actions, preventing lifegain and punishing card draw or spellcasting. Additionally, the deck contains a backup persist combo with Gev, Murderous Redcap, and a sacrifice outlet like Goblin Bombardment. While it lacks tutors and heavy fast mana, its high redundancy of burn pieces creates an aggressive, inevitable clock.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Agate Instigator
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artist's Talent
  • 1 Battle Hymn
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blasting Station
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Burning Earth
  • 1 Cavalcade of Calamity
  • 1 Consumed by Greed
  • 1 Court of Ire
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cut Down
  • 1 Dagger Caster
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 False Cure
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fireglass Mentor
  • 1 Flamecache Gecko
  • 1 Gev, Scaled Scorch
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Hearthborn Battler
  • 1 Hired Claw
  • 1 Ill-Gotten Inheritance
  • 1 Immolation Shaman
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Iridescent Vinelasher
  • 1 Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
  • 1 Lesser Masticore
  • 1 Leyline of Combustion
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Hex
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magebane Lizard
  • 1 Mechanized Warfare
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 1 Molten Gatekeeper
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 12 Mountain
  • 1 Mudflat Village
  • 1 Murderous Redcap
  • 1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Cluestone
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Rockface Village
  • 1 Roiling Vortex
  • 1 Scales of Shale
  • 1 Scorch Spitter
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steampath Charger
  • 1 Sulfuric Vortex
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunscorched Desert
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Theater of Horrors
  • 1 Thought-Stalker Warlock
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Urabrask // The Great Work
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Valley Flamecaller
  • 1 Valley Rotcaller
  • 1 Viashino Heretic
  • 1 Viashino Pyromancer
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Witty Roastmaster