Handless Combo by JJAlexzander0

Format: Commander

Commander: Chainer, Nightmare Adept

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 51

Deck overview

Chainer, Nightmare Adept commands a high-power Rakdos reanimator combo deck that leverages dense creature tutoring, discard synergy, and explosive reanimation spells to rapidly close games. The primary win condition resolves Buried Alive to tutor Phyrexian Delver, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, and Zealous Conscripts into the graveyard, followed by a 1-mana reanimation spell like Reanimate to create arbitrarily large numbers of hasty attacking tokens on Turn 4. The deck incorporates compact redundant win lines including Dualcaster Mage paired with Twinflame as well as Necrotic Ooze loops. Mana acceleration is powered by low-cost mana rocks, rituals such as Dark Ritual, and cost-cheating enablers. In addition to explosive combo lines, the deck can establish suffocating asymmetric locks through an early Sire of Insanity or the synergistic pairing of Maha, Its Feathers Night and M.O.D.O.K.. While vulnerable to targeted graveyard hate and instant-speed removal, the deck's extensive tutor redundancy and commander-driven recursion ensure fast recovery.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Anje's Ravager
  • 1 Apprentice Necromancer
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Azra Oddsmaker
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Burning Inquiry
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Carnage, Crimson Chaos
  • 1 Cathartic Reunion
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conqueror's Flail
  • 1 Daretti, Scrap Savant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Doomed Necromancer
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fervent Mastery
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Goblin Engineer
  • 1 Goblin Matron
  • 1 Goblin Welder
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
  • 1 M.O.D.O.K.
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Maha, Its Feathers Night
  • 1 Mogg Fanatic
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Necrotic Ooze
  • 1 Phyrexian Delver
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shenanigans
  • 1 Sire of Insanity
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Zealous Conscripts