Go on, Target it by DeerCard117

Format: Commander

Commander: The Serpent Society

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This deck is a specialized Golgari aristocrats and attrition strategy led by The Serpent Society. The game plan revolves around deploying low-cost deathtouch creatures and sacrificing them to trigger the commander's forced nontoken sacrifice ability, systematically dismantling opposing creature boards. Because The Serpent Society features a punishing Ward cost of five poison counters, opponents face severe life-total pressure whenever attempting targeted removal. The deck compounds this attrition using asymmetric engines like Grave Pact, Dictate of Erebos, Ogre Slumlord, and Tergrid, God of Fright to seize opposing permanents while generating deathtouch tokens. Victory is achieved through steady life drain via Bastion of Remembrance, Poison-Tip Archer, and South Wind Avatar, wide attacks with deathtouch tokens, or an instant-kill combo assembling South Wind Avatar and Exquisite Blood. Extensive graveyard recursion ensures fast rebuilding after sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Bow of Nylea
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminant Grafter
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dragon Sniper
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Frog Butler
  • 1 Gran Pulse Ochu
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hit-Monkey
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Lich's Relic
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Long Goodbye
  • 1 Meteor Crater
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Nightshade Dryad
  • 1 Noxious Newt
  • 1 Ogre Slumlord
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Poison-Tip Archer
  • 1 Postmortem Professor
  • 1 Radioactive Spider
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Serpent Specialist
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Squirrelanoids
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of Truth and Justice
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 The Serpent Society
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampire Gourmand
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Virulent Emissary
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zombify