Swiper 2.0 by SC3PTR3

Format: Commander

Commander: The Infamous Cruelclaw

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Rakdos cheat-and-attack deck built around The Infamous Cruelclaw. The primary plan is to have Cruelclaw connect, exile the top nonland card, and cast it for one discard, dropping Drakuseth, Ulamog, Emrakul, or Ilharg turns early. Secondary lines use reanimation and treasure ramp to hard-cast the same threats if the commander is hated out. Cruelclaw is the engine and the deck's only commander; there is no hidden commander. Wins are combat driven: overwhelming board presence plus attack triggers such as Drakuseth's burn and Ulamog's exile. Interaction is mostly removal and free spells, and the deck protects key pieces with Kaya's Ghostform and boots.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bonecrusher Giant // Stomp
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Deadly Cover-Up
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
  • 1 Embercleave
  • 1 Emrakul, the World Anew
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Glint-Horn Buccaneer
  • 1 God-Pharaoh's Statue
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Hit the Mother Lode
  • 1 Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Kozilek, the Broken Reality
  • 1 Laughing Jasper Flint
  • 1 Lavaspur Boots
  • 1 Lotus Ring
  • 1 Massacre Girl, Known Killer
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
  • 18 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pirate's Pillage
  • 1 Portal to Phyrexia
  • 1 Pyretic Rebirth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Shadow of the Enemy
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Summon: Bahamut
  • 17 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Endstone
  • 1 The Infamous Cruelclaw
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Prophet
  • 1 Tyrite Sanctum
  • 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
  • 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune