Demon Time by user8497735

Format: Commander

Commander: Garland, Knight of Cornelia // Chaos, the Endless

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Rakdos Demon Reanimator deck focused on putting massive Demons into the graveyard and returning them to play at a fraction of their casting costs. Led by Garland, Knight of Cornelia // Chaos, the Endless, the deck leverages noncreature spells such as cheap cantrips, rituals, and mana rocks to trigger surveil and sculpt the graveyard. Premier reanimation targets like Razaketh, the Foulblooded, Vilis, Broker of Blood, and Valgavoth, Terror Eater deliver overwhelming card advantage, tutor power, and board control upon entering the battlefield. The deck converts this board presence into decisive table-wide finishes using mass reanimation spells like Living Death and Patriarch's Bidding, paired with life-loss doublers like Archfiend of Despair and Bloodletter of Aclazotz. While vulnerable to dedicated graveyard exile and lacking countermagic, its extreme redundancy and rapid recovery make it an explosive midgame threat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abhorrent Overlord
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood for Bones
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Burning-Rune Demon
  • 1 Burnt Offering
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Demon of Wailing Agonies
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Dragon's Rage Channeler
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Full Throttle
  • 1 Garland, Knight of Cornelia // Chaos, the Endless
  • 1 Goryo's Vengeance
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Great Unclean One
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 Herald of Slaanesh
  • 1 Infernal Sovereign
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kothophed, Soul Hoarder
  • 1 Liliana's Contract
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Void
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mass Hysteria
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Rakdos, Patron of Chaos
  • 1 Rakdos, the Showstopper
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reaper from the Abyss
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Exchange
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 17 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Whip of Erebos