Lose-Lose by user4328949

Format: Commander

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Boros goad/politics deck built to turn opponents' creatures against each other while Nelly Borca restocks your hand. The early game uses cheap goad auras, Nelly's attack trigger, and pillow-fort taxes to deter attacks on you. Card draw comes from Nelly, Firemane Commando, Trouble in Pairs, and several token/attack engines. The primary finish is the expensive Aurelia, the Warleader + Helm of the Host loop for infinite combats, with Insurrection and Gisela as high-variance backups. The commander is a value engine more than a combo piece; if she is removed the deck still has goad and removal, but it loses its most reliable repeatable draw and a major combat deterrent.

Decklist (101 cards)

  • 1 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Blade
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bothersome Quasit
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Dictate of the Twin Gods
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Fire Diamond
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Geode Rager
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Harsh Mentor
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Insurrection
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Maddening Hex
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Price of Progress
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Locket
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Roiling Vortex
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shiny Impetus
  • 1 Slicer, Hired Muscle // Slicer, High-Speed Antagonist
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellshock
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Vampiric Link
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Xantcha, Sleeper Agent
  • 1 Zo-Zu the Punisher