Some Good Grub by ItsEducational

Format: Commander

Commander: Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This Rakdos deck focuses on Goblin tribal synergy, combining aggressive token swarms with aristocrat burn engines. Led by Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie, the deck uses the front face to recur dead Goblins from the graveyard and the back face to duplicate attacking threats. Early turns focus on establishing mana fixing and low-cost Goblin utility creatures. By Turn 4, the deck deploys potent token engines like Krenko, Mob Boss or Goblin Rabblemaster. The strategy creates a critical board presence on Turn 5 using Shared Animosity for massive combat damage or Impact Tremors and General Kreat, the Boltbringer for group-wide burn. If combat damage cannot finish every opponent, sacrifice outlets such as Goblin Bombardment, Sling-Gang Lieutenant, and Pashalik Mons convert the swarm into unpreventable lethal damage, closing out the game around Turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Auntie's Hovel
  • 1 Battle Cry Goblin
  • 1 Beetleback Chief
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodline Bidding
  • 1 Blowfly Infestation
  • 1 Boggart Cursecrafter
  • 1 Boggart Harbinger
  • 1 Boggart Mischief
  • 1 Boggart Mob
  • 1 Boggart Shenanigans
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Collective Inferno
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conspicuous Snoop
  • 1 Dawn-Blessed Pennant
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Den of the Bugbear
  • 1 Dockside Chef
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Eclipsed Realms
  • 1 Everlasting Torment
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frogtosser Banneret
  • 1 Gempalm Incinerator
  • 1 General Kreat, the Boltbringer
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Goblin Grenade
  • 1 Goblin King
  • 1 Goblin Matron
  • 1 Goblin Rabblemaster
  • 1 Goblin Recruiter
  • 1 Goblin Ringleader
  • 1 Goblin Warchief
  • 1 Grave Venerations
  • 1 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie
  • 1 Heirloom Auntie
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
  • 1 Lasting Tarfire
  • 1 Legion Warboss
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mad Auntie
  • 1 Mogg War Marshal
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Moria Marauder
  • 14 Mountain
  • 1 Munitions Expert
  • 1 Pashalik Mons
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rundvelt Hordemaster
  • 1 Scuzzback Scrounger
  • 1 Shared Animosity
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Siege-Gang Lieutenant
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sling-Gang Lieutenant
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Taster of Wares
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Withering Torment