Rev by skenetz

Format: Commander

Commander: Rev, Tithe Extractor

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black aggro-theft and Treasure drain engine commanded by Rev, Tithe Extractor. The strategy opens by deploying low-mana, evasive creatures such as Changeling Outcast and Tormented Soul on early turns. Once Rev enters on Turn 3 or 4, each unblocked attack triggers deathtouch, generates Treasure tokens, and exiles cards from opponents' libraries for impulse casting. This creates a compounding engine of mana velocity and stolen card advantage. As the game transitions into the midgame, the deck capitalizes on token creation and sacrifice via drain payoffs including Mirkwood Bats, Marionette Apprentice, and Agent of the Iron Throne. Big-mana finishers like Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Brainstealer Dragon, and Exsanguinate convert hoarded Treasure stores into lethal life loss across all opponents by Turn 9. While the deck possesses resilient recovery through redundant low-cost attackers, it remains vulnerable to sweepers and lacks dedicated stack interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arvinox, the Mind Flail
  • 1 Battlefly Swarm
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Come Back Wrong
  • 1 Cunning Rhetoric
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
  • 1 Etherium Pteramander
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Eye Collector
  • 1 Faerie Dreamthief
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Forsworn Paladin
  • 1 Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Goldvein Pick
  • 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
  • 1 Gonti, Night Minister
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Heartless Conscription
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mask of Memory
  • 1 Meathook Massacre II
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Orochi Soul-Reaver
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pilfering Imp
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Prickly Boggart
  • 1 Rancid Rats
  • 1 Rankle, Master of Pranks
  • 1 Rev, Tithe Extractor
  • 1 Shadow Alley Denizen
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stirge
  • 38 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 Thieves' Tools
  • 1 Thieving Varmint
  • 1 Tormented Soul
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Vampire Nighthawk
  • 1 Village Rites