Here Comes the Bride by LuKong

Format: Commander

Commander: Olivia, Crimson Bride

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a focused Rakdos reanimator deck commanded by Olivia, Crimson Bride. Its core strategy revolves around putting high-impact threats into the graveyard during the opening turns using efficient entomb and discard spells, then deploying Olivia or cheap reanimation spells to bring them directly into combat. Olivia's built-in haste and attack trigger turn the command zone into a reliable reanimation engine, constantly resurrecting game-warping creatures such as Archon of Cruelty, Sheoldred, Whispering One, and Vilis, Broker of Blood. The deck applies heavy attrition to opposing creatures and hands while building an overwhelming board of evasive beaters. While it lacks infinite combos and struggles to interact with opposing enchantments or artifacts, its high density of redundant reanimation spells ensures that it can rebuild rapidly after board wipes and close games out through devastating combat swings.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Anje Falkenrath
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Archpriest of Shadows
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood for Bones
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Bone Shards
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Burning-Rune Demon
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Curse-Marred Demon
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Drana, the Last Bloodchief
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Ever After
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Flayer of the Hatebound
  • 1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Lazotep Quarry
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Olivia, Crimson Bride
  • 1 Olivia, Mobilized for War
  • 1 Oriq Loremage
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scion of Darkness
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 18 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Tomb Fortress
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan