Gaak Gaak dont chicken out! by Snackalaka

Format: Commander

Commander: Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This Golgari deck is an explosive graveyard aggro-combo engine piloted by Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis. The deck leverages efficient self-mill creatures and low-cost mana dorks to fill the graveyard rapidly, enabling Hogaak to enter the battlefield as early as Turn 3 without spending mana. Once assembled, the deck exploits Hogaak's massive 8/8 statline through high-yield draw engines like Greater Good and Disciple of Bolas, or converts high power into direct multiplayer damage via Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord and Altar of Dementia. Premier utility lands like Gaea's Cradle and Bazaar of Baghdad supercharge mana output and card velocity, while recursion staples like Dread Return, Victimize, and Reanimate ensure constant threat density. While the deck lacks countermagic and proactive stax pieces, its raw speed, resilience to removal, and ability to recur lethal threats from the graveyard make it a relentless combat and life-drain powerhouse.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Altar of the Wretched // Wretched Bonemass
  • 1 Apprentice Necromancer
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Bazaar of Baghdad
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blanchwood Prowler
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Caldaia Guardian
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Circle of the Land Druid
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Golgari Thug
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Khalni Garden
  • 1 Korozda Guildmage
  • 1 Lair of the Hydra
  • 1 Life // Death
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Mentor
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lord of Extinction
  • 1 Malevolent Rumble
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Pathbreaker Ibex
  • 1 Poxwalkers
  • 1 Putrid Imp
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rubblebelt Maverick
  • 1 Runadi, Behemoth Caller
  • 1 Ruthless Technomancer
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tend the Pests
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Skullspore Nexus
  • 1 Treetop Village
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undead Butler
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Utopia Mycon
  • 1 Vengevine
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth