Carth The Lion by tabascoman34

Format: Commander

Commander: Carth the Lion

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari Superfriends control strategy piloted by Carth the Lion. Carth provides card advantage and loyalty acceleration by searching the top seven cards for a planeswalker whenever he enters or a planeswalker dies, while reducing all loyalty activation costs by one. The primary game plan accelerates into Carth by Turn 3, followed by high-impact planeswalkers on Turn 4. Carth's discount enables immediate game-altering ultimates, notably allowing Garruk, Cursed Huntsman to grant a permanent +3/+3 and trample emblem on entry. Counter multipliers like Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider and Innkeeper's Talent further accelerate loyalty, enabling instant ultimates from Liliana, Dreadhorde General and Vraska, Betrayal's Sting. The deck protects its planeswalkers using token blockers, fogs like Spike Weaver and Obscuring Haze, and sweeps the board with Culling Ritual and Toxic Deluge. It closes out the game around Turn 8 through overwhelming combat damage and planeswalker attrition.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetheric Amplifier
  • 1 Arcane Amphisbaena
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Carth the Lion
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Garruk Wildspeaker
  • 1 Garruk, Cursed Huntsman
  • 1 Garruk, Primal Hunter
  • 1 Garruk, Unleashed
  • 1 Genesis Wave
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Honor-Worn Shaku
  • 1 Innkeeper's Talent
  • 1 Interplanar Beacon
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Keeper of the Quiet Hour
  • 1 Liliana Vess
  • 1 Liliana of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Liliana, Waker of the Dead
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nissa, Vital Force
  • 1 Nissa, Voice of Zendikar
  • 1 Nissa, Who Shakes the World
  • 1 Ob Nixilis Reignited
  • 1 Obscuring Haze
  • 1 Open the Way
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Rewrite Regrets
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Simulacrum Shaper
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin Markov
  • 1 Sorin the Mirthless
  • 1 Spike Weaver
  • 1 Staff of Compleation
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Tangle
  • 1 Tangled Florahedron // Tangled Vale
  • 1 Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Peregrine Dynamo
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vivien Reid
  • 1 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
  • 1 Vraska's Final Mercy
  • 1 Vraska, Betrayal's Sting
  • 1 Vraska, Relic Seeker
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Way of the Necromancer
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Wrenn and Realmbreaker
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Vile Offering
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician