Gwenom Citadel by Blacklotus

Format: Commander

Commander: Gwenom, Remorseless

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 68

Deck overview

This deck is an explosive Mono-Black Turbo Storm and Aristocrats combo deck designed to execute fast, decisive wins. Its primary strategy centers on accelerating into Bolas's Citadel or attacking with Gwenom, Remorseless to cast spells directly from the top of the library using life as mana. This velocity allows the deck to dig into game-ending loops, such as Sensei's Divining Top paired with Aetherflux Reservoir to deal 50 damage to each opponent, or creature loops with Forsaken Miner, Phyrexian Altar, and Blood Artist. A dense suite of fast mana artifacts, rituals, and low-cost tutors ensures that the deck can assemble its win conditions as early as Turn 3. Defensive tools like Defense Grid and Cavern of Souls protect spellcasting turns from countermagic. While the deck lacks stack interaction against opposing noncreature combos, its sheer speed, redundancy, and diverse backup lines make it a relentless proactive threat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Blasting Station
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cauldron Familiar
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Cruel Tutor
  • 1 Crystal Vein
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Death Cultist
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Doomsday
  • 1 Ebon Stronghold
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Engineered Explosives
  • 1 Fear of Lost Teeth
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Golgari Thug
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
  • 1 Hall of the Bandit Lord
  • 1 Insidious Dreams
  • 1 Jeweled Amulet
  • 1 Lavaspur Boots
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Memnite
  • 1 Mortuary
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Peat Bog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Phyrexian Walker
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Popular Egotist
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Scorched Ruins
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Serrated Scorpion
  • 1 Skateboard
  • 1 Slaughter Pact
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Stridehangar Automaton
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tendrils of Agony
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Urborg Panther
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Vein Ripper
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat