Tariel 2.0 by R2DTuz

Format: Commander

Commander: Tariel, Reckoner of Souls

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This Mardu deck leverages Tariel, Reckoner of Souls at the helm of an attrition, graveyard-theft, and big-mana reanimation shell. The early game focuses on accelerating mana through artifacts and black rituals while filling all players' graveyards using mill cards, discard, and board wipes. Once the graveyard pool is established, the deck transitions into deploying high-impact reanimation engines such as Ancient Brass Dragon, Sheoldred, Whispering One, and Tariel itself, amplified by untap artifacts like Thousand-Year Elixir and Sting, the Glinting Dagger. In the mid-to-late game, the deck seizes decisive control by casting mass reanimation spells like Living Death and Rise of the Dark Realms, or stealing opposing boards with Mob Rule. The primary win condition is overwhelming combat damage distributed across opponents over consecutive turns, backed by resilient recursion and defensive staples like Teferi's Protection and Boros Charm.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abyssal Harvester
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Athreos, Shroud-Veiled
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Chaos Shrine's Black Crystal
  • 1 Coffin Queen
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dihada, Binder of Wills
  • 1 Dread Summons
  • 1 Echoing Deeps
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feral Ghoul
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Hidden Grotto
  • 1 Illusionist's Bracers
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kefka, Dancing Mad
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mariposa Military Base
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mob Rule
  • 1 Monumental Henge
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Nuclear Fallout
  • 1 Patriar's Seal
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Puppeteer Clique
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Screeching Scorchbeast
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shark Shredder, Killer Clone
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sidisi, Regent of the Mire
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 Sting, the Glinting Dagger
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tariel, Reckoner of Souls
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Rise of Sozin // Fire Lord Sozin
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Tinybones, the Pickpocket
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Unseal the Necropolis
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn