The Master by Elfbane5

Format: Commander

Commander: The Master, Gallifrey's End

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 62

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Rakdos artifact aristocrats build led by The Master, Gallifrey's End. The strategy focuses on sacrificing nontoken artifact creatures to generate continuous resource disparity, drain opponents, and wipe opposing boards. High-velocity mana rocks like Mana Vault, Sol Ring, and Chrome Mox accelerate the deck into mid-game engines. Potent card advantage pieces such as Necropotence, The One Ring, and Yawgmoth, Thran Physician dig quickly for key combo pieces. The primary win condition loops Ashnod's Altar and Nim Deathmantle with large artifact creatures like Myr Battlesphere or Triplicate Titan, generating infinite colorless mana, tokens, and death triggers to drain the entire table through Blood Artist, Marionette Apprentice, or Mayhem Devil. In the absence of an immediate combo, Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos keep opposing creature boards completely suppressed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marionette Master
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Meteor Golem
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Myr Battlesphere
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nim Deathmantle
  • 1 Oni-Cult Anvil
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Scrapyard Recombiner
  • 1 Scuttling Doom Engine
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Master, Gallifrey's End
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treasure Keeper
  • 1 Triplicate Titan
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vat of Rebirth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Workshop Assistant
  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat