The Greatest Goblin by Turkel

Format: Commander

Commander: The Great Goblin

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Rakdos aristocrats and combo engine led by The Great Goblin. The commander converts counter placement into direct burn while turning every dying Goblin into fresh card advantage from exile. The early game establishes cheap Goblin fodder and mana velocity using pieces like Skirk Prospector and Warren Soultrader. By Turn 4, the deck deploys its commander alongside sacrifice outlets like Goblin Bombardment and counter enablers like Metallic Mimic or Gev, Scaled Scorch. On Turn 5, the deck reaches critical onset by assembling persist loops with Putrid Goblin and Murderous Redcap or establishing massive token generation with Krenko, Mob Boss. Supported by flexible protection cards like Deflecting Swat and mass recursion like Patriarch's Bidding, the deck rapidly drains opposing life totals, closing the game around Turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Auntie's Hovel
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Cursecrafter
  • 1 Boggart Mischief
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Champion of the Weird
  • 1 Chandra's Incinerator
  • 1 Charred Foyer // Warped Space
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conspicuous Snoop
  • 1 Crime Novelist
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Den of the Bugbear
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Eclipsed Boggart
  • 1 Empty the Warrens
  • 1 Enterprising Scallywag
  • 1 Exuberant Fuseling
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Frogtosser Banneret
  • 1 General Kreat, the Boltbringer
  • 1 Gev, Scaled Scorch
  • 1 Gleeful Demolition
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Goblin Chieftain
  • 1 Goblin Chirurgeon
  • 1 Goblin Engineer
  • 1 Goblin Matron
  • 1 Goblin Warchief
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Knucklebone Witch
  • 1 Krenko, Baron of Tin Street
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 Kuldotha Rebirth
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Memory Worm
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mogg War Marshal
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Murderous Redcap
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scuzzback Scrounger
  • 1 Siege-Gang Lieutenant
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Sling-Gang Lieutenant
  • 1 Stalactite Stalker
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of Truth and Justice
  • 1 Taurean Mauler
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Uncivil Unrest
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Warg Rider
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wild-Magic Sorcerer
  • 1 Winding Canyons
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician