Ember's Deck by GrimmyMTG

Format: Commander

Commander: Judith, Carnage Connoisseur

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is an interactive Rakdos spellslinger and control deck commanded by Judith, Carnage Connoisseur. The strategy revolves around casting Judith to turn ultra-cheap red damage spells like End the Festivities, Blazing Volley, and Tectonic Hazard into one-mana, one-sided board wipes by granting them deathtouch and lifelink. This creates massive life-total buffers and prevents opponents from establishing any creature-based board presence. When board wipes are unnecessary, Judith generates 2/2 Imp tokens that provide sacrifice fodder for card-draw engines like Deadly Dispute and Village Rites while draining opponents upon death. The deck closes games through compounding noncombat damage from pingers such as Guttersnipe, Fiery Inscription, and Tor Wauki the Younger, recycled through graveyard recursion like Past in Flames and Mizzix's Mastery. Additionally, the deck contains an infinite life-drain win condition in Exquisite Blood combined with Sanguine Bond or Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artist's Talent
  • 1 Ashling, Flame Dancer
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Blazing Volley
  • 1 Boiling Earth
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Dose of Dawnglow
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Electrickery
  • 1 End the Festivities
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Fiery Confluence
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Flame Rift
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mizzium Mortars
  • 1 Mizzix's Mastery
  • 12 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Pestilent Spirit
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Restless Vents
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Scouring Sands
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smash to Dust
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spikefield Hazard // Spikefield Cave
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tablet of Discovery
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tectonic Hazard
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Tor Wauki the Younger
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Volatile Fault
  • 1 Wail of the Nim
  • 1 Young Pyromancer