Imps by user9382858

Format: Commander

Commander: Judith, Carnage Connoisseur

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos spellslinger and aristocrats control strategy led by Judith, Carnage Connoisseur. The primary game plan revolves around casting Judith on Turn 4 or 5, then leveraging cheap 1-mana asymmetric damage spells like End the Festivities, Blazing Volley, and Tectonic Hazard. Judith grants these spells deathtouch and lifelink, turning them into one-sided board wipes that destroy all opposing creatures while gaining massive life buffers. In subsequent turns, the deck casts cheap cantrips and sacrifice-draw spells to trigger passive burn engines such as Guttersnipe, Fiery Inscription, and Kessig Flamebreather, while Judith creates 2/2 Imp tokens that deal 2 damage to each opponent upon death. Sacrificing these Imps to cards like Plumb the Forbidden and Deadly Dispute generates explosive bursts of card advantage and burn damage, closing out the game around Turn 7.

Decklist (101 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Akoum Refuge
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armor of Shadows
  • 1 Artifist Acumen
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazing Volley
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Cast into the Fire
  • 1 Cinder Barrens
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Crash Through
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Eaten Alive
  • 1 Electrickery
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Electrostatic Field
  • 1 End the Festivities
  • 1 Erebor Flamesmith
  • 1 Eviscerator's Insight
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Fiendish Duo
  • 1 Fiery Confluence
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Flick a Coin
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gandalf, Goblins' Bane // Flameshape
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Hawkeye, Young Avenger
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Judith, Carnage Connoisseur
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Krav, the Unredeemed
  • 1 Lash of the Balrog
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 12 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Pestilent Spirit
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Professor's Warning
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rowan's Grim Search
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smash to Dust
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stensia Bloodhall
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tectonic Hazard
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Urborg Volcano
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Warlord's Fury
  • 1 Wild Ricochet
  • 1 Young Pyromancer