The Scorpion God by user4503695

Format: Commander

Commander: The Scorpion God

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos control and attrition engine led by The Scorpion God, built to dominate creature-centric tables through -1/-1 counters, wither, and proliferate mechanics. Its core game plan involves accelerating into The Scorpion God on Turn 4, then deploying asymmetric board-suppression tools such as Carnifex Demon, Kulrath Knight, Maha, Its Feathers Night, and Crumbling Ashes on Turns 5 and 6. The commander turns opposing creature deaths into steady card advantage, continually refilling the hand to maintain control. Without nonland tutors or fast mana rocks, the deck plays a deliberate midrange game, grinding down opposing life totals over multiple turns using large evasive creatures, insect swarms from Nest of Scarabs, and direct damage from All Will Be One or Blood Artist. While resilient against destroy-based removal thanks to its commander's built-in recursion to hand, the deck remains vulnerable to exile effects, enchantment-based strategies, and fast combo decks.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrade
• 1 All Will Be One
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Banewhip Punisher
• 1 Bile-Vial Boggart
• 1 Black Sun's Zenith
• 1 Blazemire Verge
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Blowfly Infestation
• 1 Blur of Blades
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Carnifex Demon
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Contagion Clasp
• 1 Contagion Engine
• 1 Corrosive Mentor
• 1 Crumbling Ashes
• 1 Dark Fortress
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drown in Ichor
• 1 Everlasting Torment
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Festering Mummy
• 1 Fists of the Demigod
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Fume Spitter
• 1 Grasping Dunes
• 1 Graven Cairns
• 1 Grim Affliction
• 1 Hateflayer
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Incremental Blight
• 1 Jet Medallion
• 1 Karn's Bastion
• 1 Kulrath Knight
• 1 Lockjaw Snapper
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Maha, Its Feathers Night
• 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
• 1 Massacre Girl
• 1 Massacre Girl, Known Killer
• 1 Midnight Banshee
• 1 Mind Stone
• 8 Mountain
• 1 Necropede
• 1 Necroskitter
• 1 Nest of Scarabs
• 1 Persistent Constrictor
• 1 Phyrexian Arena
• 1 Plague Myr
• 1 Puncture Blast
• 1 Puncture Bolt
• 1 Rakdos Charm
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Scar
• 1 Serrated Arrows
• 1 Shadowblood Ridge
• 1 Sickle Ripper
• 1 Skinrender
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul Immolation
• 1 Soul Snuffers
• 1 Soul-Scar Mage
• 1 Spinerock Tyrant
• 1 Splendid Agony
• 1 Stigma Lasher
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 9 Swamp
• 1 Tainted Peak
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Terminate
• 1 The Ozolith
• 1 The Scorpion God
• 1 Torment of Venom
• 1 Turbulent Crater
• 1 Village Pillagers
• 1 Volt Charge
• 1 Whisper of the Dross