Tariel by user3888263

Format: Commander

Commander: Tariel, Reckoner of Souls

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This Mardu deck executes a dedicated Reanimator and Board Control strategy. It uses early discard outlets, wheels, and entomb effects to place high-impact legendary creatures into the graveyard, then returns them to play ahead of curve with low-cost reanimation spells. Key threats like Avacyn, Angel of Hope and Gisela, Blade of Goldnight establish an early aerial presence that pressures opponents while providing asymmetric protection and damage amplification. A dense suite of spot removal and board wipes clears opposing battlefields while preserving your own board. The deck wins by accumulating combat damage across multiple attack steps and locking out opponents with asymmetric land destruction via Catastrophe. While the deck excels at creature attrition and resilient midgame recovery, it relies heavily on its graveyard and lacks blue stack interaction, making it vulnerable to well-timed graveyard hate and fast combo strategies.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Anger
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arid Mesa
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Athreos, Shroud-Veiled
• 1 Austere Command
• 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1 Badlands
• 1 Beacon of Unrest
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Boros Charm
• 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1 Bruna, the Fading Light
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Catastrophe
• 1 Chrome Mox
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Crackling Doom
• 1 Damn
• 1 Damnation
• 1 Debtors' Knell
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Dihada, Binder of Wills
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1 Gemstone Mine
• 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
• 1 Gisela, the Broken Blade
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Grand Abolisher
• 1 Grim Monolith
• 1 Hide // Seek
• 1 Karmic Guide
• 1 Land Tax
• 1 Life's Finale
• 1 Liliana Vess
• 1 Lotus Petal
• 1 Magus of the Wheel
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Malfegor
• 1 Mana Confluence
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Memory Jar
• 1 Merciless Eviction
• 1 Mesmeric Orb
• 1 Mortify
• 2 Mountain
• 1 Necromancy
• 1 Necropotence
• 1 No Mercy
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 5 Plains
• 1 Plateau
• 1 Praetor's Grasp
• 1 Prismatic Vista
• 1 Rakdos Charm
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reassembling Skeleton
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Resolute Archangel
• 1 Return to Dust
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1 Runehorn Hellkite
• 1 Sacred Foundry
• 1 Savai Triome
• 1 Scrubland
• 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stinkweed Imp
• 1 Strip Mine
• 1 Sun Titan
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Tariel, Reckoner of Souls
• 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1 Unburial Rites
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Utter End
• 1 Vault of the Archangel
• 1 Wheel of Fortune
• 1 Wrath of God