Down in GoblinTown by FREAKWOOD

Format: Commander

Commander: The Great Goblin

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos tribal aristocrats and amass strategy led by The Great Goblin. The deck focuses on creating Army, Goblin, and Orc tokens and placing +1/+1 counters on them to trigger the commander's 2-damage burn ability. Whenever these creatures die, The Great Goblin exiles cards from the top of the library, converting casualties into steady impulsive card advantage. The deck ramps on curve into its 3-mana commander, follows up with steady counter generators like Dreadhorde Invasion, March from the Black Gate, and Bothersome Noisemaker, and escalates pressure using token engines like Krenko, Mob Boss and Pashalik Mons. Interaction covers creatures and artifacts effectively through cards like Chaos Warp, Infernal Grasp, and Blasphemous Act. While lacking infinite combos or dedicated stack protection, the deck grinds down opposing life totals across Turn 6 to 8 through relentless combat pressure, counter triggers, and sacrifice outlets like Goblin Bombardment.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Along the Crooked Way
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assault on Osgiliath
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bilbo's Deadly Slice
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolg of the North
  • 1 Bolg's Company
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Book of Mazarbul
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Down, Down to Goblin-town
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drown in Ichor
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fall of Cair Andros
  • 1 Fearsome Goblin Pair
  • 1 Feast on the Fallen
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foray of Orcs
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gathering of Darkness
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Goblin Plate Mail
  • 1 Goblin Warchief
  • 1 Goblin-town
  • 1 Goblin-town Flunkies
  • 1 Gorbag of Minas Morgul
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Great Ugly-Looking Goblin // Clap! Snap!
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Gríma Wormtongue
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Misty Mountains Raider
  • 1 Mordor Muster
  • 1 Moria Marauder
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Pashalik Mons
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Rage into the Valley
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Rhovanion Rampager
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Siege-Gang Lieutenant
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swarming of Moria
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tidings of War
  • 1 Uglúk of the White Hand
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites