Plunder Down Under

Format: Commander

Commander: Captain N'ghathrod

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir Horror tribal deck commanded by Captain N'ghathrod. The strategy focuses on establishing early evasive Horrors, accelerating into the commander by Turn 4, and utilizing combat damage triggers to mill opponents' libraries. At the end of each turn, Captain N'ghathrod reanimates the best artifact or creature milled from an opponent's library directly to your side of the battlefield. The deck compounds this advantage using coastal piracy effects like Kindred Discovery and Bident of Thassa, while neutralizing opposing threats with Sludge Monster. Secondary win conditions include massive life drain from Syr Konrad, the Grim, devastating mill waves via kicked Maddening Cacophony, and reanimation blowouts through Living Death. Built-in evasion such as menace, unblockability, and flying from Wonder in the graveyard ensures consistent combat connections.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Captain N'ghathrod
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Crippling Fear
  • 1 Curtains' Call
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Endless Evil
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Forgotten Creation
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mind Flayer
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nemesis of Reason
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Overcharged Amalgam
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Shadow Kin
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sludge Monster
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Theorix Charm
  • 1 Tribute Mage
  • 1 Triton Shorestalker
  • 1 Uchuulon
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unseal the Necropolis
  • 1 Vashta Nerada
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Wharf Infiltrator
  • 1 Wonder