The Great Goblino

Format: Commander

Commander: The Great Goblin

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Goblin and Orc kindred strategy centered on The Great Goblin. It leverages a dual-engine architecture: accumulating +1/+1 counters to trigger direct face burn and sacrificing expendable bodies to generate substantial impulse card advantage. Low-cost ramp and kindred enablers like Skirk Prospector and Goblin Warchief quickly establish early board presence. Once the commander is assembled alongside token generators like Krenko, Mob Boss or counter enablers like Metallic Mimic, the deck translates creature entries and deaths into relentless life drain via Impact Tremors, Goblin Bombardment, and Pashalik Mons. While the list features explosive board-scaling and high velocity through death-triggered exile draws, it remains vulnerable to sweepers that bypass death triggers and lacks instant-speed stack control.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodline Pretender
  • 1 Boggart Cursecrafter
  • 1 Boggart Mischief
  • 1 Bolg's Company
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Brightstone Ritual
  • 1 Collective Inferno
  • 1 Conspicuous Snoop
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feast on the Fallen
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 First Day of Class
  • 1 Gev, Scaled Scorch
  • 1 Ghost Lantern // Bind Spirit
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Goblin Chirurgeon
  • 1 Goblin Cratermaker
  • 1 Goblin Lackey
  • 1 Goblin Matron
  • 1 Goblin Recruiter
  • 1 Goblin Warchief
  • 1 Goblin-town
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Gollum, Riddle Master
  • 1 Gorbag of Minas Morgul
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Howlsquad Heavy
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Knucklebone Witch
  • 1 Krenko, Baron of Tin Street
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
  • 1 Legion Warboss
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 17 Mountain
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver
  • 1 Pashalik Mons
  • 1 Rage into the Valley
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stalactite Stalker
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Taurean Mauler
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Warg Rider