Pride by DGMCKNIGHT

Format: Commander

Commander: Rafiq of the Many

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Rafiq of the Many is both the engine and the finisher: the deck stacks exalted triggers from small creatures, auras, and lands onto Rafiq, then attacks alone so his double-strike trigger turns a modest creature into a one-shot commander-damage kill. The main plan is to ramp into Rafiq, protect him with hexproof/indestructible effects, and add exalted density plus Finest Hour's second combat. Sovereigns of Lost Alara provides a secondary, tutor-on-attack line fetching Eldrazi Conscription or Colossification for a huge surprise kill. There is no hidden commander; Rashel, Fist of Torm and Rammas Echor simply add more exalted keyword instances.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Akrasan Squire
  • 1 All That Glitters
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armadillo Cloak
  • 1 Aven Squire
  • 1 Battlegrace Angel
  • 1 Bear Umbra
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Blossoming Defense
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Champion of Lambholt
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Court of Bounty
  • 1 Court of Grace
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Danitha Capashen, Paragon
  • 1 Duelist's Heritage
  • 1 Eldrazi Conscription
  • 1 Ethercaste Knight
  • 1 Ethereal Armor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Finest Hour
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Giver of Runes
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Gryff's Boon
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hyena Umbra
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Keen Sense
  • 1 Keeper of Keys
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Loxodon Warhammer
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Noble Hierarch
  • 1 Odric, Lunarch Marshal
  • 1 Odric, Master Tactician
  • 1 Open the Armory
  • 1 Palace Jailer
  • 1 Palace Sentinels
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Protector of the Crown
  • 1 Qasali Pridemage
  • 1 Rafiq of the Many
  • 1 Rancor
  • 1 Rhox Charger
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Sigiled Paladin
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sovereigns of Lost Alara
  • 1 Spider Umbra
  • 1 Spirit Mantle
  • 1 Sram, Senior Edificer
  • 1 Staunch Throneguard
  • 1 Steel of the Godhead
  • 1 Sublime Archangel
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Three Dreams
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Throne of the High City
  • 1 Unquestioned Authority
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast