New Untitled Deck by ItsElijah

Format: Commander

Commander: Rowan, Scion of War

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 71

Deck overview

This deck is a high-speed competitive Rakdos combo build helmed by Rowan, Scion of War. The strategy focuses on converting life loss into massive mana discounts, enabling explosive game-winning turns as early as Turn 2 or 3. By utilizing free life-loss enablers such as Wall of Blood, Immolating Souleater, or Plunge into Darkness, the deck reduces the generic cost of black and red spells by 30 or more. This allows devastating finishers like Torment of Hailfire, Crackle with Power, Exsanguinate, or a discounted Peer into the Abyss to be cast for only colored pips. Supported by format-ceiling fast mana (Chrome Mox, Mox Diamond, Dark Ritual) and unconditional tutors, the deck achieves remarkable speed and consistency. Interaction like Deflecting Swat, Hexing Squelcher, and Pyroblast shields the critical combo turn. When Rowan is suppressed, independent win conditions like Ad Nauseam, Underworld Breach, and the Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose plus Exquisite Blood combo provide swift backup paths.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Barbarian Ring
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Celebrant
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Cabal Pit
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Final Fortune
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hall of the Bandit Lord
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Ifnir Deadlands
  • 1 Immolating Souleater
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Plunge into Darkness
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Ramunap Ruins
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Rowan, Scion of War
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spoils of the Vault
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tarnished Citadel
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unspeakable Symbol
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Wall of Blood
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Wooded Foothills