New Untitled Deck by MadXeno

Format: Commander

Commander: The Lord of Pain

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This Rakdos Group Slug deck accelerates out The Lord of Pain alongside damage amplifiers and punishing static pieces to turn routine game actions into lethal life loss. The early turns focus on establishing mana acceleration through two-mana rocks and deploying low-cost slug creatures like Harsh Mentor and Razorkin Needlehead. On Turn 4, the commander enters to shut down opposing lifegain and convert every player's first spell each turn into targeted direct damage. By Turn 5, damage doublers like Solphim, Mayhem Dominus, Torbran, Thane of Red Fell, or Gratuitous Violence amplify this passive burn to unsustainable levels. Opponents are forced into a dilemma where casting spells, drawing cards, or activating permanents rapidly burns down their own life totals. The deck backs up this strategy with robust spot removal and redirection magic, closing out tables by Turn 7 via sustained trigger attrition, combat damage, and burst drain finishers like Gray Merchant of Asphodel.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Angrath's Marauders
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barbflare Gremlin
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gleeful Arsonist
  • 1 Grab the Prize
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Harsh Mentor
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magebane Lizard
  • 1 Mask of Griselbrand
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Obosh, the Preypiercer
  • 1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Sadistic Shell Game
  • 1 Scytheclaw Raptor
  • 1 Shivan Gorge
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Spiked Corridor // Torture Pit
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Lord of Pain
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Vial Smasher the Fierce
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Witch's Clinic
  • 1 Withering Torment