Tsabo Tavoc by user3712281

Format: Commander

Commander: Tsabo Tavoc

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This Rakdos deck is a dedicated group slug and attrition build led by Tsabo Tavoc. Instead of relying on its 7-mana commander to generate value, the deck deploys a wide array of symmetrical and asymmetrical punishment pieces starting from turn 2. Cards like Roiling Vortex, Pyrostatic Pillar, and Forsaken Wastes tax basic game actions such as casting low-cost spells, playing lands, and drawing cards, while entirely locking out opponent life gain. In the mid-game, the deck ramps into damage multipliers like Solphim, Mayhem Dominus and The Lord of Pain, accelerating the clock and dealing lethal noncombat damage across the entire table simultaneously. Forced combat cards like Kardur, Doomscourge and Disrupt Decorum keep opposing boards attacking each other rather than defending. While the deck lacks extensive stack interaction and combo finishes, its heavy redundancy and relentless burn create an inevitable life drain that punishes fast and slow decks alike.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Balemurk Leech
  • 1 Barbed Wire
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chandra, Awakened Inferno
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Emberwilde Captain
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Forsaken Wastes
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Geothermal Bog
  • 1 Gleeful Arsonist
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Immolation Shaman
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mogg Assassin
  • 1 Mogis, God of Slaughter
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Nightshade Harvester
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Persistent Constrictor
  • 1 Pestilence
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Pyrostatic Pillar
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Roiling Vortex
  • 1 Sadistic Shell Game
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shivan Gorge
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
  • 1 Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord
  • 1 Spiked Corridor // Torture Pit
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Star Athlete
  • 1 Stinkweed Imp
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tectonic Giant
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Lord of Pain
  • 1 Thoughtseize
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Trial of Agony
  • 1 Tsabo Tavoc
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vial Smasher the Fierce
  • 1 Witch's Clinic