Krenko but Black by Esraom

Format: Commander

Commander: The Great Goblin

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 13

Deck overview

This is a Rakdos Goblin swarm deck led by The Great Goblin. Its main plan is to develop Goblins and Armies, use counters and deaths to generate incidental damage and exiled card access, then scale a board with Krenko, Mob Boss, Goblin Rabblemaster, Goblin Warchief, and related token makers. Goblin Matron is the main role tutor, but it only finds Goblins and cannot find the commander, lands, or non-Goblin support. The deck has useful creature removal and some draw, yet it lacks dense acceleration, broad protection, reliable evasion, and a compact win. Its strongest ordinary state is a haste-enabled Krenko, Mob Boss with a developed board around turn 7 or 8. That state is threatening if left alone, but it is not a dependable same-turn or two-cycle table kill. The deck is best understood as a casual-to-mid-power tribal midrange deck that wins through combat and incremental resource advantage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Bilbo's Deadly Slice
  • 1 Bolg of the North
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Breathe Your Last
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Chaos Spewer
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Cost of Brilliance
  • 1 Crippling Fear
  • 1 Crude Bent Blade
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Down, Down to Goblin-town
  • 1 Dragon Fodder
  • 1 Dunland Crebain
  • 1 Elder Auntie
  • 1 Empty the Warrens
  • 1 Epic Downfall
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fearsome Goblin Pair
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fling
  • 1 Front Porch Sentries
  • 1 Gempalm Incinerator
  • 1 Goblin Gathering
  • 1 Goblin Grenade
  • 1 Goblin Matron
  • 1 Goblin Plate Mail
  • 1 Goblin Rabblemaster
  • 1 Goblin Warchief
  • 1 Goblin-town
  • 1 Goblin-town Flunkies
  • 1 Great Ugly-Looking Goblin // Clap! Snap!
  • 1 Gristle Glutton
  • 1 Grotag Night-Runner
  • 1 Gundabad Opportunist
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
  • 1 Hell's Kitchen
  • 1 Hobgoblin, Mantled Marauder
  • 1 In Thrall to the Pit
  • 1 Key to the Side-Door
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
  • 1 Last Gasp
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Mogg War Marshal
  • 14 Mountain
  • 1 Nameless Inversion
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Quest for the Goblin Lord
  • 1 Rage into the Valley
  • 1 Ragged Short Spear
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Rundvelt Hordemaster
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Sourbread Auntie
  • 1 Sting-Slinger
  • 1 Stir Up Trouble
  • 1 Stony-Voiced Goblins
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The Lonely Mountain
  • 1 The Torment of Gollum
  • 1 Thrór's Map
  • 1 Tidings of War
  • 1 Warbeast of Gorgoroth
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat