This deck is somewhere between burn, aikido, and ramblings of a mad man by SamuraiShamu

Format: Commander

Commander: Ludevic, Necro-Alchemist and Ravos, Soultender

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This 4-color deck led by Ludevic, Necro-Alchemist and Ravos, Soultender is a Spite Damage Reflection and Aikido Control deck. Its primary strategy centers on deploying resilient damage-reflecting creatures such as Brash Taunter, Stuffy Doll, Boros Reckoner, and Donna Noble, then casting massive damage-based sweepers like Star of Extinction, Chain Reaction, and Shivan Meteor. Instead of merely clearing the board, these spells inflict devastating bursts of damage directly onto opponents. Defensive auras like Pariah and life-gain effects like Spirit Link turn opposing attacks and damage into self-preservation and life surplus. Ludevic, Necro-Alchemist keeps card advantage flowing as players take incidental damage, while Ravos, Soultender provides recurring recovery for any lost creatures. Supported by redirection spells like Return the Favor and Chef's Kiss, the deck punishes aggressive opponents and converts table-wide board wipes into lethal win conditions.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Allure of the Unknown
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arcbond
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azorius Charm
  • 1 Billiard Room
  • 1 Black Widow, Intel Expert
  • 1 Boros Garrison
  • 1 Boros Reckoner
  • 1 Brainspoil
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chef's Kiss
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Coalhauler Swine
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cursed Recording
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Donna Noble
  • 1 Dual Casting
  • 1 Equal Treatment
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Feather, the Redeemed
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fraying Line
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Gideon's Sacrifice
  • 1 Hall
  • 1 Heartless Hidetsugu
  • 1 Hindering Light
  • 1 Humble Defector
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Joined Researchers // Secret Rendezvous
  • 1 Lavabrink Floodgates
  • 1 Library
  • 1 Ludevic, Necro-Alchemist
  • 1 Mark for Death
  • 1 Master Warcraft
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Nahiri's Machinations
  • 1 Nin, the Pain Artist
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Pariah
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Peter Parker's Camera
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Public Thoroughfare
  • 1 Ravos, Soultender
  • 1 Rediscover the Way
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Sage of the Inward Eye
  • 1 Saving Grace
  • 1 Selfless Savior
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shielded by Faith
  • 1 Shivan Meteor
  • 1 Simulacrum
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spirit Link
  • 1 Spiteful Sliver
  • 1 Star of Extinction
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Stuffy Doll
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Séance Board
  • 1 Temple of Triumph
  • 1 Tenuous Truce
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Torch the Witness
  • 1 Transguild Promenade
  • 1 Unexpected Fangs
  • 1 Vampiric Link
  • 1 Vodalian Illusionist
  • 1 Volcano Hellion
  • 1 Your Temple Is Under Attack