meme by KeeganJL28

Format: Commander

Commander: The Infamous Cruelclaw

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This deck is a highly unconventional Rakdos build helmed by The Infamous Cruelclaw, a 3/3 menace weasel that exiles cards from the top of your library on combat damage and lets you cast the first nonland card by discarding a card. The deck is essentially a land pile-96 lands and only three nonland spells: Worldfire, Hit the Mother Lode, and Creative Technique. The primary game plan is to connect with Cruelclaw, exile one of these high-CMC sorceries, and cast it for free by discarding a land. However, none of these spells provide a clear path to victory; Worldfire resets the board to 1 life but leaves you with no permanents or hand, while the other two are value spells that cannot close out a game. The deck lacks any real win condition, interaction, protection, or recursion, making it a fragile and non-functional strategy that relies entirely on the commander connecting repeatedly for slow commander damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Akoum Refuge
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blighted Gorge
  • 1 Blinkmoth Nexus
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Branch of Vitu-Ghazi
  • 1 Cactus Preserve
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Crawling Barrens
  • 1 Creative Technique
  • 1 Den of the Bugbear
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dread Statuary
  • 1 Dwarven Ruins
  • 1 Ebon Stronghold
  • 1 Geothermal Bog
  • 1 Ghitu Encampment
  • 1 Hall of the Bandit Lord
  • 1 Hanweir Battlements
  • 1 Hit the Mother Lode
  • 1 Hive of the Eye Tyrant
  • 1 Inkmoth Nexus
  • 1 Jagged Barrens
  • 1 Keldon Megaliths
  • 1 Lavaclaw Reaches
  • 1 Mirrex
  • 1 Mishra's Factory
  • 1 Mishra's Foundry
  • 1 Mobilized District
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 21 Mountain
  • 1 Mutavault
  • 1 Peat Bog
  • 1 Piranha Marsh
  • 1 Radiant Fountain
  • 1 Ramunap Ruins
  • 1 Rath's Edge
  • 1 Razortrap Gorge
  • 1 Restless Vents
  • 1 Rocky Tar Pit
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sandstone Needle
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shivan Gorge
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Smoldering Spires
  • 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
  • 1 Spawning Pool
  • 1 Stensia Bloodhall
  • 1 Sulfurous Mire
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunscorched Desert
  • 21 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 The Infamous Cruelclaw
  • 1 Tramway Station
  • 1 Worldfire
  • 1 Zoetic Cavern