tom bert by nikkedog

Format: Commander

Commander: Tom, Bert, and William

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This Golgari (B/G) deck leans heavily into a high-power reanimator strategy, using its commander Tom, Bert, and William as a repeatable sacrifice outlet that draws cards proportional to the sacrificed creature's power. The plan is to flood the board with massive creatures (Ghalta, Primal Hunger, Yargle and Multani, Daemogoth Titan), sacrifice them for huge card advantage, then recur them via Living Death, Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Cauldron of Essence. The commander itself returns when it dies (as an artifact), providing a resilient engine. Secondary payoffs include Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord (sacrifice damage based on power) and Psychosis Crawler (life loss from drawing cards). The deck lacks fast combo lines and instead aims to grind out value through graveyard loops, eventually closing the game with a mass reanimation turn or a massive Berserk-augmented attack.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Anticausal Vestige
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bebop & Rocksteady
  • 1 Beifong's Bounty Hunters
  • 1 Berserk
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bone Miser
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bygone Colossus
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Daemogoth Titan
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Honest Rutstein
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Kalakscion, Hunger Tyrant
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lupine Prototype
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Soulgorger
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Protean Hulk
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Pugnacious Hammerskull
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rot-Curse Rakshasa
  • 1 Rotting Regisaur
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shakedown Heavy
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Slumbering Trudge
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride
  • 1 The Skullspore Nexus
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tom, Bert, and William
  • 1 Topiary Stomper
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist
  • 1 Yargle and Multani
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth