Indominussss by Merkulet

Format: Commander

Commander: Indominus Rex, Alpha

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This Sultai deck leverages Indominus Rex, Alpha as a hybrid Voltron threat, card-draw engine, and reanimation enabler. By discarding creatures loaded with combat keywords during deployment, the commander enters the battlefield with a potent array of keyword counters—including hexproof, indestructible, trample, and haste—while drawing a replacement card for each counter. This transforms discarded heavyweights into immediate card advantage and graveyard fodder. The deck swiftly transitions into a dominant reanimator plan, using cards like Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Necromancy to resurrect game-ending threats such as Sire of Seven Deaths, Valgavoth, Terror Eater, and Toxrill, the Corrosive. The combination of an elusive, durable commander dealing escalating commander damage and an army of reanimated behemoths puts opponents on a swift multi-turn clock while maintaining high hand quality and resilient recovery options.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Alpha Deathclaw
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Carnage Tyrant
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Elder Gargaroth
  • 1 End-Raze Forerunners
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Galactus, Devourer of Worlds
  • 1 Glarb, Calamity's Augur
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Hit-Monkey
  • 1 Indominus Rex, Alpha
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Kefnet the Mindful
  • 1 Krang, Utrom Warlord
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
  • 1 M.O.D.O.K.
  • 1 Maha, Its Feathers Night
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Metamorphosis Fanatic
  • 1 Mirri the Cursed
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nightveil Predator
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Frog
  • 1 Questing Beast
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sab-Sunen, Luxa Embodied
  • 1 Scavenged Brawler
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sire of Seven Deaths
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stonehoof Chieftain
  • 1 Summon: Bahamut
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 The Warring Triad
  • 1 Theorix Charm
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tower Winder
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Triplicate Titan
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Ulvenwald Oddity // Ulvenwald Behemoth
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Venomthrope
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yarok, the Desecrated
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zagoth Triome