lets go gambling by deeyunyun

Format: Commander

Commander: Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck leverages Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers to execute a fast, explosive Gruul beatdown strategy. By packing 20 dedicated ramp spells at low mana values, the deck consistently accelerates mana to cast its 7-mana commander on Turn 4. Because the commander possesses native haste and trample, it attacks immediately upon deployment. Its attack trigger reveals cards until hitting a creature, putting game-ending threats like Blightsteel Colossus, Galactus, Devourer of Worlds, Etali, Primal Conqueror, and Old Gnawbone directly onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. With zero low-mana creatures in the 99, every single trigger yields a massive bomb. The deck converts this immediate board presence into a rapid Turn 6 table kill using extra combat effects such as Bloodthirster, Great Train Heist, and the infinite Aggravated Assault loop with Old Gnawbone. Efficient 1-2 mana protection spells defend key threats against spot removal, while diverse noncreature interaction disrupts opposing game plans.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 Anzrag, the Quake-Mole
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archdruid's Charm
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Bloodthirster
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Cream of the Crop
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Darksteel Colossus
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Final Fortune
  • 1 Fire Magic
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Full Throttle
  • 1 Galactus, Devourer of Worlds
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Great Train Heist
  • 1 Groundchuck & Dirtbag
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Iroh's Demonstration
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mirri's Guile
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Quilled Greatwurm
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers
  • 1 Reach the Horizon
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Royal Treatment
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Slagstorm
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Summon: Bahamut
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 The Irencrag
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills