Uncaring Ashnod by BigSlam43

Format: Commander

Commander: Ashnod the Uncaring

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Aristocrats and Goblin token swarm strategy commanded by Ashnod the Uncaring. The game plan focuses on generating creature tokens and Treasure artifacts to fuel activated abilities that sacrifice permanents as a cost. Ashnod doubles these non-mana activated abilities, turning single-target removal like Executioner's Capsule into 2-for-1 trades, single card draws like Phyrexian Vault into steady card advantage, and reanimation abilities like Doomed Necromancer into multi-creature recursion. The primary path to victory involves establishing a wide board of Goblin tokens via Krenko, Mob Boss, Pashalik Mons, or Ovika, Enigma Goliath, scaling board presence exponentially to overwhelm opponents through combat and direct sacrifice burn by Turns 7–8. While resilient to creature destruction due to extensive graveyard reanimation, the list lacks fast mana rocks, countermagic, and dedicated defensive spells, requiring careful sequencing around opposing sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftershock
  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Apprentice Necromancer
  • 1 Ashnod the Uncaring
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bonecaller Cleric
  • 1 Carnage Altar
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Clock of Omens
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crosis's Charm
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Culling Dais
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Doomed Necromancer
  • 1 Evin, Waterdeep Opportunist
  • 1 Executioner's Capsule
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki
  • 1 Fain, the Broker
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Ferrous Lake
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Flame of Anor
  • 1 Foot Chopper
  • 1 Forsworn Paladin
  • 1 Galvanic Key
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hell's Caretaker
  • 1 Howlsquad Heavy
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Kher Keep
  • 1 Kingpin, Wilson Fisk
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
  • 1 Legion Warboss
  • 1 Lux Cannon
  • 1 Manifold Key
  • 1 Mind Over Matter
  • 1 Mobile Garrison
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Nezumi Graverobber // Nighteyes the Desecrator
  • 1 Oscorp Industries
  • 1 Ovika, Enigma Goliath
  • 1 Pashalik Mons
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Vault
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Relic Vial
  • 1 Ruthless Knave
  • 1 Ruthless Technomancer
  • 1 Saw
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Searslicer Goblin
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shredder's Technique
  • 1 Sidisi, Regent of the Mire
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sonic Screwdriver
  • 1 Stark Industries Executive
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Tarrian's Journal // The Tomb of Aclazotz
  • 1 Tezzeret the Seeker
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Valgavoth's Faithful
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Voltaic Key
  • 1 Warbreak Trumpeter
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Weirding Shaman
  • 1 Whisper, Blood Liturgist
  • 1 Wild Magic Surge
  • 1 Witch's Cauldron
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Xander's Lounge