The Great Goblin by FatBodyV

Format: Commander

Commander: The Great Goblin

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Rakdos Aristocrats strategy led by The Great Goblin. The deck converts counter placement on Goblins, Orcs, and Armies into direct player burn while turning creature deaths into impulsive card advantage. The strategy quickly establishes continuous token generation using cards like Dreadhorde Invasion and March from the Black Gate, then links them to sacrifice outlets like Warren Soultrader and Goblin Bombardment. As creatures die and counters accumulate, The Great Goblin burns down opponents and refills the exile zone with fresh resources. Traditional aristocrats payoffs like Bastion of Remembrance and Marionette Apprentice provide redundant life drain, while powerful utility engines such as Yawgmoth, Thran Physician and Skullclamp ensure deep card flow. The deck reliably builds its setup on Turn 4 and threatens a lethal table finish by Turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodline Pretender
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bolg of the North
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Collective Inferno
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Eclipsed Boggart
  • 1 Everlasting Torment
  • 1 Fearsome Goblin Pair
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Frogtosser Banneret
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Gorbag of Minas Morgul
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted
  • 1 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Misty Mountains Raider
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Pact of the Serpent
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rundvelt Hordemaster
  • 1 Scuzzback Scrounger
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Siege-Gang Lieutenant
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sourbread Auntie
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Uglúk of the White Hand
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Undying Evil
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warg Rider
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Widespread Brutality
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat