Embrace the suffering (WIP) by JOCOHE

Format: Commander

Commander: The Lord of Pain

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos group slug strategy led by The Lord of Pain. It turns every fundamental game action into severe life loss for opponents. By deploying low-cost taxing permanents early, the deck penalizes opponents for drawing cards, casting spells, tapping lands, and activating abilities. The Lord of Pain anchors the strategy by shutting off opposing lifegain entirely and turning the first spell cast each turn into direct damage. Supporting engines like Manabarbs, Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, and Spiteful Visions rapidly accelerate table damage, ensuring opponents face steep life penalties for developing their boards. Efficient sweepers such as Toxic Deluge and Blasphemous Act keep creature swarms in check, while Kardur, Doomscourge deflects combat aggression away from you. The deck reliably closes games on Turn 7 through unavoidable passive damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agate Instigator
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gleeful Arsonist
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Harsh Mentor
  • 1 Hearthborn Battler
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 15 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nightshade Harvester
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Persistent Constrictor
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reckless Impulse
  • 1 Sadistic Shell Game
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Screaming Nemesis
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Lord of Pain
  • 1 The Rollercrusher Ride
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Vial Smasher the Fierce
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Wrenn's Resolve