Redshift Challenge! by skrimp

Format: Commander

Creator: skrimp

Commander: Redshift, Rocketeer Chief

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a Gruul Big Mana Stompy list piloted by Redshift, Rocketeer Chief. The strategy accelerates mana early using low-cost dorks, artifacts, and land fetchers, deploying Redshift to fund activated abilities and eventually threaten an explosive Exhaust trigger. By midgame, the deck pivots into overwhelming token generators and stompy threats such as Omnath, Locus of Rage, Rampaging Baloths, and Craterclaw Colossus. While the list includes the Food Chain and Eternal Scourge infinite mana combo, it lacks dedicated tutors to assemble it quickly and primarily wins through traditional multiplayer combat damage. Interaction is flexible across all permanent types with cards like Beast Within, Chaos Warp, and Vandalblast, while Possibility Storm introduces disruption against opposing spell chains. The deck recovers well from removal thanks to its dense land acceleration, presenting a resilient midrange game plan that closes the table around Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift
  • 1 Broodguard Elite
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Courage in Crisis
  • 1 Craterclaw Colossus
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Darksteel Monolith
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Drix Fatemaker
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Eternal Scourge
  • 1 Eusocial Engineering
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Explorer's Scope
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Face Yourself
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fire Nation Turret
  • 1 Firemind Vessel
  • 1 Food Chain
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Frenzied Baloth
  • 1 Gaea's Blessing
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Gardenize
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Konstrari Charm
  • 1 Lifeblood Hydra
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Mountain Valley
  • 1 Mycosynth Lattice
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of the Void
  • 1 Orcish Lumberjack
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Pia, Aether Ascetic
  • 1 Planar Bridge
  • 1 Possibility Storm
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Raphael's Technique
  • 1 Redshift, Rocketeer Chief
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Swashbuckler's Whip
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Tannuk, Memorial Ensign
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Tooth and Nail
  • 1 Tower of Calamities
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Weapons Manufacturing
  • 1 Wild Magic Surge
  • 1 Woodwork Prodigy // Soul Tether
  • 1 Zoyowa's Justice