Goblin by Moistgiraffe21

Format: Commander

Commander: The Great Goblin

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Goblin Aristocrats deck that weaponizes counter placement and death triggers through its commander, The Great Goblin. The deck generates steady value by putting +1/+1 counters, blight counters, and amass counters on Goblins, Orcs, and Armies, dealing 2 direct damage to opponents with each instance. Whenever your creatures die in combat or to sacrifice outlets like Skirk Prospector and Goblin Bombardment, the commander exiles replacement cards that remain playable through your next turn. This engine maintains card velocity while whittling down opposing life totals. Mid-game threats like Krenko, Mob Boss and Pashalik Mons rapidly escalate the damage clock, while mass recursion cards like Patriarch's Bidding rebuild the board immediately after sweepers. The deck closes games around turn 7 through a mix of wide combat damage, aristocrat drain triggers, and direct burn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Along the Crooked Way
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blade of the Bloodchief
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Cursecrafter
  • 1 Boggart Mischief
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolg of the North
  • 1 Bolg's Company
  • 1 Boltbender
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Champion of the Weird
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conspicuous Snoop
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dawn-Blessed Pennant
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Eclipsed Boggart
  • 1 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki
  • 1 Forge of Heroes
  • 1 Gathering Stone
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Goblin Chieftain
  • 1 Goblin Chirurgeon
  • 1 Goblin Diplomats
  • 1 Goblin King
  • 1 Goblin Warchief
  • 1 Goblin-town
  • 1 Great Ugly-Looking Goblin // Clap! Snap!
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Gristle Glutton
  • 1 Grub's Command
  • 1 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hidden Necropolis
  • 1 Hidden Volcano
  • 1 Howlsquad Heavy
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
  • 1 Kolaghan's Command
  • 1 Krenko, Baron of Tin Street
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Misty Mountains Raider
  • 1 Moria Marauder
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Murderous Redcap
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Obsessive Pursuit
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Pashalik Mons
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Scuzzback Scrounger
  • 1 Searslicer Goblin
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snowslope Hunter
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Immolation
  • 1 Stalactite Stalker
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Taurean Mauler
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Unbury
  • 1 Unexpected Fangs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Withering Torment