Lizard go brrrrrr by Dinofan

Format: Commander

Commander: Gev, Scaled Scorch

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Rakdos group slug and +1/+1 counters strategy commanded by Gev, Scaled Scorch. The primary game plan revolves around deploying cheap, recurring life-loss enablers on early turns—such as Spear Spewer, Pulse Tracker, and Creeping Bloodsucker—to consistently trigger Gev's static ability. When all three opponents lose life in a turn, Gev causes subsequent incoming creatures to enter with three additional +1/+1 counters, transforming low-cost threats and token swarms into massive beaters. Mid-game force multipliers like Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might, Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin, and Descent into Avernus rapidly escalate damage output, converting small incidental pings into lethal multi-opponent burn. While the deck features an incidental infinite damage line via Murderous Redcap and a sacrifice outlet with Gev, it predominantly wins through aggressive combat swarms and symmetrical table attrition. The deck boasts fast, low-curve assembly but relies on top-deck card flow and remains vulnerable to board wipes and interaction due to minimal stack protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agate Instigator
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodtracker
  • 1 Boltwave
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Defiler of Instinct
  • 1 Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Confluence
  • 1 Fireglass Mentor
  • 1 Flamecache Gecko
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gev, Scaled Scorch
  • 1 Giggling Skitterspike
  • 1 Glimpse the Impossible
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Ingris Stingerquill
  • 1 Iridescent Vinelasher
  • 1 Judith, the Scourge Diva
  • 1 Kami of Celebration
  • 1 Kolaghan's Command
  • 1 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
  • 1 Mardu Shadowspear
  • 1 Master of Barbs
  • 1 Molten Gatekeeper
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Murderous Redcap
  • 1 Neheb, the Eternal
  • 1 Night Market Lookout
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nikara, Lair Scavenger
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pulse Tracker
  • 1 Puppeteer Clique
  • 1 Pyrohemia
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
  • 1 Risky Shortcut
  • 1 Ruthless Technomancer
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Song of Totentanz
  • 1 Spear Spewer
  • 1 Spitfire Lagac
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Teapot Slinger
  • 1 Tempt with Vengeance
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Thundering Raiju
  • 1 Twilight Prophet
  • 1 Uncivil Unrest
  • 1 Vicious Conquistador
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Woe Strider