Re-Doctored Carnage Deck by db8r_boi

Format: Commander

Commander: Carnage, Crimson Chaos

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos aristocrats and reanimator strategy led by Carnage, Crimson Chaos. The primary game plan focuses on filling the graveyard with high-impact creatures with mana value 3 or less during the early turns using self-mill and discard outlets like Stitcher's Supplier, Bitter Reunion, and Blood tokens. On Turn 4, casting Carnage immediately reanimates a threat such as Lightning Skelemental or Triarch Praetorian to initiate heavy combat pressure, card advantage, or hand disruption. In subsequent turns, the deck layers sacrifice outlets like Warren Soultrader and Goblin Bombardment alongside aristocrat drain pieces like Mayhem Devil, Marionette Apprentice, and Zulaport Cutthroat. By repeatedly sacrificing, reanimating, and blinking its aggressive creature core, the deck steadily drains opposing life totals while stripping opposing resources, ultimately closing out the game around Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Agent Venom
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Anje's Ravager
  • 1 Apprentice Necromancer
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ares, God of War
  • 1 Arterial Alchemy
  • 1 Big Game Hunter
  • 1 Bitter Reunion
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Petal Celebrant
  • 1 Bloodtithe Harvester
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Callous Bloodmage
  • 1 Carnage, Crimson Chaos
  • 1 Casey Jones, Vigilante
  • 1 Cauldron of Souls
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Coalstoke Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Cool but Rude
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Erratic Portal
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Falkenrath Forebear
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Glass-Cast Heart
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Ivora, Insatiable Heir
  • 1 Jaxis, the Troublemaker
  • 1 Kolaghan's Command
  • 1 Lightning Skelemental
  • 1 Lord Skitter's Butcher
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Mutinous Massacre
  • 1 Ninja Teen
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Olivia, Mobilized for War
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Plundering Barbarian
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sanctum of Eternity
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shredder's Technique
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 Triarch Praetorian
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Ultimate Green Goblin
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Voldaren Bloodcaster // Bloodbat Summoner
  • 1 Voldaren Epicure
  • 1 Vraan, Executioner Thane
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat