Krenko by user8725395

Format: Commander

Commander: Krenko, Mob Boss

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 71

Deck overview

This deck is a high-speed cEDH Mono-Red Goblin Combo list built around Krenko, Mob Boss alongside redundant A+B win conditions. The primary strategy leverages dense 0–1 CMC fast mana rocks and rituals to deploy Krenko on early turns with haste enablers like Lightning Greaves or Thousand-Year Elixir. Once active, Krenko combines with untap and sacrifice engines such as Thornbite Staff, Umbral Mantle, Skirk Prospector, and Mana Echoes to produce infinite Goblin tokens and mana. The deck converts these loops into immediate table kills via ETB and death damage outlets like Purphoros, God of the Forge, Impact Tremors, and Goblin Bombardment. If Krenko is contested, fully independent compact combos—including Goblin Recruiter into Conspicuous Snoop lines, Dualcaster Mage with Twinflame, and Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker with Zealous Conscripts—provide decisive Turn 3 victories. Protective interaction like Deflecting Swat, Pyroblast, and Cavern of Souls defends the winning turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agate Instigator
  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Breath of Fury
  • 1 Brightstone Ritual
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Conspicuous Snoop
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Final Fortune
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 General Kreat, the Boltbringer
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Goblin Engineer
  • 1 Goblin King
  • 1 Goblin Lackey
  • 1 Goblin Matron
  • 1 Goblin Recruiter
  • 1 Goblin Sharpshooter
  • 1 Goblin Tunneler
  • 1 Goblin Warchief
  • 1 Goblin Welder
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Hanweir Battlements
  • 1 Heat Shimmer
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Howlsquad Heavy
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 Lightning Crafter
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Echoes
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mogg War Marshal
  • 1 Moggcatcher
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Muxus, Goblin Grandee
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver
  • 1 Pashalik Mons
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rings of Brighthearth
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Domination
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tannuk, Steadfast Second
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thornbite Staff
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Umbral Mantle
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Zealous Conscripts