Goad/Forced Combat (Baeloth Barrityl and Raised by Giants) by Serein

Format: Commander

Commander: Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer and Raised by Giants

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This Gruul deck harnesses the command zone synergy between Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer and Raised by Giants to establish total control over the table's combat phase. By setting Baeloth's base power to 10/10, the deck automatically goads virtually every creature your opponents control without requiring attack triggers or manual targeting. Opponents are forced into brutal mutual attrition while your life total remains fully protected. As opposing creatures perish in combat, Baeloth generates a steady stream of Treasure tokens that fuels expensive game-ending threats like Insurrection, Ezuri's Predation, and Chandra's Ignition. Supporting combat multipliers such as Death Kiss, Blast-Furnace Hellkite, and Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar rapidly accelerate damage across all three opponents. The deck functions as a resilient combat-control engine that turns opponents' own boards into lethal weapons while finishing remaining players through massive commander damage and overwhelming overrun effects.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agitator Ant
  • 1 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atalan Jackal
  • 1 Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blast-Furnace Hellkite
  • 1 Boar Umbra
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Bothersome Quasit
  • 1 Bushwhack
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Champion's Helm
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Colossal Dreadmask
  • 1 Colossal Majesty
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Death Kiss
  • 1 Destructive Revelry
  • 1 Diamond Pick-Axe
  • 1 Domri, Anarch of Bolas
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Excalibur, Sword of Eden
  • 1 Ezuri's Predation
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Warmonger
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Geode Rager
  • 1 Goblin Spymaster
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Havoc Eater
  • 1 Hull Breach
  • 1 Hunter's Insight
  • 1 Insurrection
  • 1 Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
  • 1 Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
  • 1 Kenrith's Transformation
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Komainu Battle Armor
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 11 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Railway Brawler
  • 1 Raised by Giants
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rugged Highlands
  • 1 Skarrg, the Rage Pits
  • 1 Snake Umbra
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spectacular Showdown
  • 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Akroan War
  • 1 The Reaver Cleaver
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Traverse the Outlands
  • 1 Tyrite Sanctum
  • 1 Unnatural Aggression
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Vengeful Ancestor
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak