The Tar Pits

Format: Commander

Commander: Old Stickfingers

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari Reanimator Stompy strategy commanded by Old Stickfingers. The primary game plan accelerates mana on early turns, fills the graveyard with massive Dinosaur and Horror threats using the commander's cast trigger or self-mill spells, and cheats those creatures onto the battlefield ahead of curve. High-impact reanimation targets such as Vaultborn Tyrant, Tyrranax Rex, and Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant establish immediate board dominance, drawing cards and applying severe combat pressure with trample. The deck leverages heavy creature density to fuel secondary payoffs like Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord and Greater Good, which convert large bodies into direct table-wide life loss and massive card draw. While the deck possesses explosive mid-game power and strong engine redundancy, its reliance on the graveyard leaves it exposed to targeted exile and mass removal. With functional interaction and strong recovery options, it reliably overwhelms opponents through compounded combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Apex Altisaur
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Back for More
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Brawn
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cache Grab
  • 1 Carnage Tyrant
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Curious Altisaur
  • 1 Deathgorge Scavenger
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Farseek
  • 24 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Golgari Charm
  • 1 Golgari Thug
  • 1 Gravebreaker Lamia
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Hulking Raptor
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 1 Jarad's Orders
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Old Stickfingers
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Polyraptor
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Regal Behemoth
  • 1 Ripjaw Raptor
  • 1 Rotting Regisaur
  • 1 Runic Armasaur
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Scion of Calamity
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stinkweed Imp
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Thrashing Brontodon
  • 1 Titanoth Rex
  • 1 Topiary Stomper
  • 1 Tranquil Frillback
  • 1 Tyrranax Rex
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Verdant Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Victimize