bloodborne by quaddi

Format: Commander

Commander: The Lord of Pain

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Group Slug and Punisher strategy commanded by The Lord of Pain. The game plan revolves around transforming standard game actions—casting spells, drawing cards, tapping lands, and declaring attacks—into lethal damage for opponents while completely shutting off opposing lifegain. On Turn 4, the deck deploys The Lord of Pain, immediately penalizing players for casting their first spell each turn with direct damage equal to that spell's mana value. On Turn 5, the deck accelerates this clock by landing powerful damage multipliers like Solphim, Mayhem Dominus, Bloodletter of Aclazotz, or Twinflame Tyrant, alongside relentless attrition engines such as Painful Quandary and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse. The deck burns down all three opponents' life totals by Turn 7 without relying on combat damage. It also packs a compact two-card infinite combo in Exquisite Blood and South Wind Avatar.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Breathe Your Last
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Champion's Helm
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chandra, Awakened Inferno
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Crypt Incursion
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Forcefield
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hazel's Nocturne
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Kefka, Dancing Mad
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Maddening Hex
  • 1 Magebane Lizard
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Pain Magnification
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Persistent Constrictor
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resurrection Orb
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shredder's Technique
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Sower of Discord
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talon of Pain
  • 1 The Lord of Pain
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Twilight Prophet
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Vampiric Link
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vial Smasher the Fierce
  • 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Wound Reflection