Rowan by user2866362

Format: Commander

Commander: Rowan, Scion of War

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Rakdos storm and burn deck commanded by Rowan, Scion of War. The primary strategy leverages self-inflicted life loss as a turbocharger, converting lost life directly into generic mana cost reduction for black and red spells. Once Rowan is active and given haste or untap readiness, cards like Fire Covenant, Dismember, Blood Celebrant, or painlands reduce spell costs by 10 to 30 mana in a single turn. This massive discount lets you cast enormous draw and tutor spells such as Beseech the Mirror, Dark Petition, or Apex of Power, culminating in immediate table-wide lethal burn through Crackle with Power, Torment of Hailfire, or Exsanguinate. A compact backup win condition is provided by Dualcaster Mage paired with Twinflame or Heat Shimmer. Redirection spells like Bolt Bend and Return the Favor safeguard the combo turn against enemy interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Apex of Power
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barbarian Ring
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blood Celebrant
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
  • 1 Brass's Bounty
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit Pylons
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dark Petition
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Electroduplicate
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Heartless Hidetsugu
  • 1 Heat Shimmer
  • 1 Hex Magic
  • 1 Ifnir Deadlands
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Inspired Tinkering
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Keen Duelist
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Molten Duplication
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Ramunap Ruins
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reiterate
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rowan, Scion of War
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sting, the Glinting Dagger
  • 1 Storm King's Thunder
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tablet of Discovery
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Will of the Jeskai