I aM tHE gOd oF wAr by user9712400

Format: Commander

Commander: Ares, God of War

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Rakdos aristocrats/attack shell built around Ares, God of War. The commander turns every dying attacker into a reusable card in hand, so the deck attacks with hasty, self-sacrificing threats (Ball Lightning, Lightning Skelemental, Aspiring Champion) and converts their deaths into Blood Artist/Zulaport-style drains, Grave Pact effects, and Treasure via Pitiless Plunderer/Mahadi. Secondary path is Master of Cruelties plus any one-damage sacrifice trigger, killing one player per turn. The deck is not an all-in combo; it wins through repeated attack waves and attrition, with Sneak Attack and Alesha supplying extra uses for creatures.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agent Venom
  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ares, God of War
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Aspiring Champion
  • 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
  • 1 Ball Lightning
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chainsaw
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Combat Celebrant
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Enduring Courage
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fling
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Garna, Bloodfist of Keld
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Gut, True Soul Zealot
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Jagged Barrens
  • 1 Judith, the Scourge Diva
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lightning Skelemental
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Mass Hysteria
  • 1 Master of Cruelties
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Pillar of the Paruns
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 RMS Titanic
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Keyrune
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Ramunap Ruins
  • 1 Razortrap Gorge
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restless Vents
  • 1 Rising of the Day
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rot-Curse Rakshasa
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat