A WASTE OF DADDYS MONEY by Nephilim

Format: Commander

Commander: Child of Alara

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 7

Deck overview

This is a five-color control shell built around sweepers, land destruction, and the death trigger of Child of Alara. Its strongest feature is broad battlefield coverage: it can answer creatures, artifacts, enchantments, tokens, lands, and graveyards. However, the deck has no dependable way to make Child of Alara die, no meaningful ramp, almost no card draw, and no reliable finisher or tutor package. Most lands enter tapped, so even its expensive answers arrive slowly. Symmetrical effects such as Armageddon and Jokulhaups are especially risky because the deck cannot consistently rebuild faster than opponents. The list can produce disruptive individual games when its sweepers line up well, but it lacks a repeatable engine and cannot establish a supported critical clock. Its practical plan is closer to reactive battlefield control than a complete Commander strategy. To become functional, it needs a clear sacrifice-and-recursion engine, efficient mana development, card selection, and a way to turn a cleared battlefield into a reliable win.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acid Rain
  • 1 Aether Snap
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Armageddon
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Back to Nature
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Bearer of the Heavens
  • 1 Bend or Break
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blastfire Bolt
  • 1 Bloodline Culling
  • 1 Blot Out the Sky
  • 1 Boom // Bust
  • 1 Boompile
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Breaking Point
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Cease // Desist
  • 1 Ceaseless Conflict
  • 1 Child of Alara
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crafty Cutpurse
  • 1 Crisis of Conscience
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Day of Judgment
  • 1 Deadly Tempest
  • 1 Deathbringer Regent
  • 1 Decree of Annihilation
  • 1 Desolation Angel
  • 1 Desolation Giant
  • 1 Devastation
  • 1 Do or Die
  • 1 Doomskar
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Duskwatch Hunter
  • 1 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings
  • 1 End Hostilities
  • 1 Extinction
  • 1 Fated Retribution
  • 1 Final Act
  • 1 Final Showdown
  • 1 Forced March
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Game Over
  • 1 Grim Giganotosaurus
  • 1 Grismold, the Dreadsower
  • 1 Hallowed Moonlight
  • 1 Hythonia the Cruel
  • 1 Illness in the Ranks
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Jetmir's Garden
  • 1 Jokulhaups
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Legions to Ashes
  • 1 Mascot Interception
  • 1 Mogg Infestation
  • 1 Multani's Decree
  • 1 Myojin of Cleansing Fire
  • 1 Myojin of Infinite Rage
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Nature's Ruin
  • 1 Nevinyrral, Urborg Tyrant
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Overwhelming Forces
  • 1 Perish
  • 1 Perplexing Test
  • 1 Phyrexian Rebirth
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Ravages of War
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reiver Demon
  • 1 Rubblebelt Runner
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Twilight Drover
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Virulent Plague
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Xander's Lounge
  • 1 Zagoth Triome
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground