Chaos by user1523774

Format: Commander

Commander: Child of Alara

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color Bad Gifts, chaos, and board-wipe control deck led by Child of Alara. Its primary game plan revolves around deploying catastrophic permanents like Nine Lives, Illusions of Grandeur, and Captive Audience, then donating them to opponents using Zedruu the Greathearted, Harmless Offering, Coveted Falcon, or Stiltzkin, Moogle Merchant. Once an opponent controls Nine Lives, targeted enchantment removal such as Quiet Purity or a board sweeper forces them to lose the game immediately. In parallel, the deck leverages asymmetric mass denial through Armageddon and Worldslayer, breaking parity with an extensive suite of eleven indestructible artifact lands and indestructible creatures like Brash Taunter and Stuffy Doll. The deck interacts primarily through heavy sweepers and targeted enchantment removal, stalling aggressive boards until it can assemble its donation kills or lock opponents out of mana. However, it suffers from prolonged exposure and high vulnerability to stack interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Angel of Destiny
  • 1 Angelic Skirmisher
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Absolution
  • 1 Armageddon
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Bearer of the Heavens
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Break the Spell
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Captive Audience
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Child of Alara
  • 1 Cliffhaven Kitesail
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coveted Falcon
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Custody Battle
  • 1 Darkmoss Bridge
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Deadpool, Trading Card
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dimensional Breach
  • 1 Drossforge Bridge
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Felidar Cub
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Fraying Line
  • 1 Giggling Skitterspike
  • 1 Goldmire Bridge
  • 1 Harmless Offering
  • 1 Hour of Revelation
  • 1 Hull Breach
  • 1 Illusions of Grandeur
  • 1 Insidious Fungus
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jinxed Ring
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Keening Apparition
  • 1 Kite Shield
  • 1 Knowledge Pool
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Light of Hope
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mistvault Bridge
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nine Lives
  • 1 Omen Machine
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Quiet Purity
  • 1 Razortide Bridge
  • 1 Reef Worm
  • 1 Rhystic Tutor
  • 1 Risky Move
  • 1 Rustvale Bridge
  • 1 Scrambleverse
  • 1 Screaming Nemesis
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Silverbluff Bridge
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Slagwoods Bridge
  • 1 Sleeper Agent
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spidersilk Net
  • 1 Stiltzkin, Moogle Merchant
  • 1 Stuffy Doll
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tanglepool Bridge
  • 1 Tarrian's Soulcleaver
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Thornglint Bridge
  • 1 Warp World
  • 1 Weeping Angel
  • 1 Worldslayer
  • 1 Wrong Turn
  • 1 Zedruu the Greathearted