Kingpin’s ASSets by woke66

Format: Commander

Commander: The Kingpin of Crime

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This Orzhov deck leverages The Kingpin of Crime to turn low-power, high-toughness creatures into devastating combat threats. By paying life on attack triggers, creatures like Giant Ox and Nyx-Fleece Ram assign combat damage using their toughness instead of their power. The deck breaks parity on board wipes with asymmetric cards like Slaughter the Strong, The Battle of Bywater, and Dusk // Dawn, wiping away opposing threats while preserving its own resilient board. Consistent low-power card advantage engines such as Welcoming Vampire and Tocasia's Welcome keep resources flowing, while extort and incidental lifegain trigger drain payoffs like Indulging Patrician and Cliffhaven Vampire. The primary path to victory involves deploying a dense line of high-toughness creatures, wiping opposing blockers, and delivering lethal damage through Baldin, Century Herdmaster, True Conviction, or unblockable effects from Access Tunnel and Bond of Discipline.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
  • 1 Baldin, Century Herdmaster
  • 1 Bar the Door
  • 1 Behind the Scenes
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bond of Discipline
  • 1 Bushmeat Poacher
  • 1 Captain America's Shield
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Catapult Fodder // Catapult Captain
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Cliffhaven Vampire
  • 1 Coldsteel Heart
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Enduring Innocence
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Giant Ox
  • 1 Glasswing Grace // Age-Graced Chapel
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Hakoda, Selfless Commander
  • 1 Haliya, Guided by Light
  • 1 Heliod's Intervention
  • 1 Indulging Patrician
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Lunar Convocation
  • 1 MacCready, Lamplight Mayor
  • 1 Marble Diamond
  • 1 Mentor of the Meek
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nyx-Fleece Ram
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 12 Plains
  • 1 Rasaad yn Bashir
  • 1 Reunion of the House
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
  • 1 Severed Strands
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Slaughter the Strong
  • 1 Smile at Death
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate
  • 1 Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Stoneskin
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 The Battle of Bywater
  • 1 The Kingpin of Crime
  • 1 Tip the Scales
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 True Conviction
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vizkopa Guildmage
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams