Kingpin’s ASSets by woke66

Format: Commander

Commander: The Kingpin of Crime

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov combat and lifegain engine led by The Kingpin of Crime. It leverages low-power, high-toughness creatures like Giant Ox, Nyx-Fleece Ram, and Shrike Force, turning their massive defensive stats into offensive firepower using the commander's attack trigger. Asymmetric sweepers like Slaughter the Strong, The Battle of Bywater, and Dusk // Dawn decimate opposing boards while leaving your resilient blockers untouched. Meanwhile, incidental lifegain from extort, lifelink, and end-step drain triggers steadily weakens opponents while fueling cards like Lunar Convocation and Indulging Patrician. Backed by comprehensive spot removal and efficient low-CMC recursion, the deck steadily outvalues the table before closing the game through unblockable or double-striking combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
  • 1 Baldin, Century Herdmaster
  • 1 Behind the Scenes
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bond of Discipline
  • 1 Captain America's Shield
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Catapult Fodder // Catapult Captain
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Cliffhaven Vampire
  • 1 Coldsteel Heart
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Enduring Innocence
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Giant Ox
  • 1 Glasswing Grace // Age-Graced Chapel
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Hakoda, Selfless Commander
  • 1 Haliya, Guided by Light
  • 1 Heliod's Intervention
  • 1 Indulging Patrician
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Lunar Convocation
  • 1 MacCready, Lamplight Mayor
  • 1 Marble Diamond
  • 1 Mentor of the Meek
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nyx-Fleece Ram
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 12 Plains
  • 1 Rasaad yn Bashir
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Shrike Force
  • 1 Slaughter the Strong
  • 1 Smile at Death
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate
  • 1 Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Stoneskin
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 The Battle of Bywater
  • 1 The Kingpin of Crime
  • 1 Tip the Scales
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 True Conviction
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vizkopa Guildmage
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Zoraline, Cosmos Caller